Example sentences of "than [is] generally [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite being repudiated , condemned and persecuted , Nazarean teachings continued to survive , for much longer than is generally suspected . |
| 2 | There is too the fact that the original letter or document is charged with an emotion , an urgency , and an immediacy , to which the later printed record can never pretend At least for some — and probably for more than is generally imagined — the original document , letter or journal is the best door into the past . |
| 3 | It is probably a lot more common than is generally realized , a background ‘ noise ’ which only becomes noticeable when emphasized to such a degree that we can no longer ignore it . |
| 4 | Mildew is more debilitating and weakening than is generally realized . |
| 5 | Following the Orange Tree 's fine revival of Rodney Ackland 's The Dark River , this production offers further persuasive evidence that there was far more vitality in the English theatre before the arrival of the angry young men and the Royal Court revolution than is generally acknowledged . |
| 6 | On the whole they feel such predictions are not justified and , indeed , the evidence is of a much greater degree of fitness and independence than is generally acknowledged . |
| 7 | A closer examination of the Celtic Church reveals a much greater deviation from Rome than is generally acknowledged or even known . |
| 8 | Far more settlements had access to areas of common and waste than is generally acknowledged in books about the English landscape ( Fig. 82 ) . |
| 9 | The finding by Fritz and Brooks that vagotomy abolishes the choleretic response to feeding in cholecystectomised dogs suggests that , at least as regards the digestive function of bile , neural regulation of biliary secretion may be of greater functional importance than is generally acknowledged . |
| 10 | It is possible to paint with quite a small brush the details of shadows and shapes of clouds — in fact more so than is generally accepted . |
| 11 | The prospering of Unionism had less to do with the war than is generally assumed , and it was more healthy in 1914 and less certain of prosperity in 1922 . |
| 12 | Employing this methodology , Nyman and Silberston , as already noted , find a significantly higher occurrence of ownership control than is generally assumed . |
| 13 | Perhaps there was a much larger population in the area than has previously been supposed , with more intensive or extensive use of the landscape by 2000 I–C than is generally assumed . |
| 14 | Aircraft are more polluting , probably , than is generally realised — therefore , enter the train . |
| 15 | This can lead to iatrogenic disease ( drug induced ) , a problem which may be far more wide-spread than is generally realised . |
| 16 | The range of organisations that can provide you with back-up is far more extensive than is generally realised . |
| 17 | The notion of ‘ expressing an emotion or attitude ’ is itself a more complex one than is generally realised . |
| 18 | There are other features that may have much earlier origins than is generally believed . |
| 19 | Further evidence against this is the finding that the occurrence of choledocholithiasis was much higher in patients in group A who underwent cholecystectomy ( 16/23 : 70% ) than is generally seen in association with cholecystolithiasis . |
| 20 | Similarly , the robustness of female Australian aboriginal bones may be far greater than is generally found in male pygmies . |
| 21 | From these various details , a picture begins to emerge of something of considerable import occurring in Gethsemane that night — something on a larger scale than is generally envisaged , and something involving rather more than ‘ a band of men ’ . |
| 22 | For this reason , I think that such difficulties arise a good deal more often than is generally appreciated . |
| 23 | Since the 16th century legislation has established an inquisitorial form of investigation into the dealings and assets of bankrupts which is calculated to yield potentially incriminating material , and in more recent times there have been many other examples , in widely separated fields , which are probably more numerous than is generally appreciated . |
| 24 | However , it is more difficult to achieve than is generally appreciated . |
| 25 | From a static point of view , the term ‘ divergent-dialect situation ’ can be understood in two senses : first , Belfast dialect ( for example ) is observed to be divergent from other dialects and , particularly , from ‘ mainstream ’ norms of language , such as RP and standard English ; second , the dialect exhibits a great deal of internal variation — much greater than is generally reported for these better-known varieties ( this is approximately the phenomenon that Le Page ( 1975 ) calls diffuseness ) . |
| 26 | The gap between rich and poor countries is smaller than is generally thought |
| 27 | The notice sometimes published in the papers to the effect that Mr Smith will no longer be liable for his wife 's debts has a much more limited operation than is generally supposed . |
| 28 | The press is far older in Africa than is generally supposed , the first newspapers probably being those that appeared during the Napoleonic occupation of Egypt in 1797 . |
| 29 | Psychiatrists are more easily shocked than is generally supposed . |
| 30 | Spiritual congress of this kind is , in fact , found all over the world and throughout history — as the biographies of famous Christian and other mystics confirm and occurs more often than is generally supposed in our own contemporary Western world . |