Example sentences of "than [is] sometimes [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore , since at this time Islam was pursuing a policy of particular openness towards other religions , less of a barrier existed than is sometimes assumed . |
| 2 | The Woodvilles ' personal following was thus smaller than is sometimes assumed . |
| 3 | A celebrated passage of Aristotle 's Politics ( 1313b38 ) proves less than is sometimes assumed . |
| 4 | The Woodvilles ' personal following was thus smaller than is sometimes assumed . |
| 5 | The ultimate sanction a country can levy — nationalisation ( expropriation ) of operations is not unknown , but is less frequent than is sometimes believed . |
| 6 | Throughout much of urban Spain the lower-middle class , whilst larger than is sometimes suggested , was engaged in relatively small-scale economic activities involving little in the way of enterprise : family-based manufacturing , localized commerce , a primitive service sector , and not least important the buying , selling and leasing of land — a major middle-class preoccupation since the disentailment of the Church 's landed property in the mid-nineteenth century . |
| 7 | Glass and enamel tesserae , for , are uncommon in Britain — although they do occur more frequently than is sometimes suggested ( Boon 1974 , 345 ; Neal 1976 , 243 ) . |