Example sentences of "than have previously been " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when I asked him how much of the land of the state of Israel might potentially have two claimants — an Arab and a Jew holding respectively a British mandate and an Israeli deed to the same property — he said he figure was accurate — and it should be remembered that over half of Israel in 1948 consisted of the Negev desert — then it suggested that Arabs owned a far greater proportion of that part of Palestine which became Israel than has previously been imagined . |
| 2 | The result is a forecast of much more rapid and pronounced warming of the globe than has previously been thought likely , setting in by the end of the present decade . |
| 3 | An electrical mechanism for long-distance signalling in plants may be much more general than has previously been recognized . |
| 4 | General practitioners will require a higher level of knowledge and expertise in psychiatry than has previously been the case . |
| 5 | Certainly the reliance now of necessity of such systems demands , and fortunately the nature of these types of premises is likely to permit , a much closer relationship between the ‘ business end ’ of the system and the valves which control it than has previously been considered to be necessary . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The purpose of this project is to examine the argument that there is greater coherence in stratification arrangements than has previously been shown to exist . |
| 8 | The surveys will enable a more detailed explanatory model of the speech-community to be achieved than has previously been possible , with relevant linkages to social and economic factors , population structure and trends , and key public institutions such as the media , education and administration . |
| 9 | Recent research has shown that even in the thirteenth century the peasantry were participating much more actively in the monied economy than had previously been supposed . |
| 10 | When Friends of the Earth researched the tapwater survey of England and Wales run in the Observer in 1989 , they found that lead exceeded the legal limit in a far larger and more widely distributed number of supplies than had previously been supposed . |
| 11 | This showed conclusively that Thoresby 's contents were far more complete than had previously been realized and , with relatively little rearrangement , could have been put back as they appeared in early photographs . |
| 12 | This , in conjunction with concomitant improvements in stage-coaching , enabled many more citizens to embark , with only moderate discomfort , on much longer journeys than had previously been considered . |
| 13 | They showed that disputes between the males were some what commoner than had previously been reported . |
| 14 | And yet , since the start of May , there has been reason to think it would have been less bloody than had previously been feared . |
| 15 | Moreover , recent surveys have suggested that not so many members of these societies are ‘ literate ’ by the standards expected than had previously been assumed : in the UK it is now held that over one million people have an acquaintance with literacy that is insufficient for the demands made on them by this kind of society ( DES , 1980 ) . |
| 16 | The subject matter indicates closer links between Aegean civilisation and Egypt than had previously been known . |
| 17 | These two pursued a much more interventionist policy than had previously been the case , using government-directed investment policy , as well as certain spending controls and tax increases , to tackle unemployment , reduce the budget deficit and restore economic growth . |
| 18 | A recent land survey of Boiotia reveals a much higher density of settlement and population than had previously been suspected , cp. below p. 84 for this ; why not help ourselves , the Athenians must have said , to some of that good soil — cheaper and less dangerous than planting colonies in Thrace where they might be and sometimes were overwhelmed by the natives . |
| 19 | Wonderfully bizarre , compared to the local species , they seemed to symbolize a sudden awakening from the drab monotones of medieval Christianity to a much richer world than had previously been imagined . |
| 20 | Even here the practice altered , for there was much fuller consultation about the preparation of the 1983 manifesto than had previously been the case . |
| 21 | A 10-year study by the US National Acid Precipitation Assessment Programme published in mid-January 1991 concluded that acid rain had done far less damage to the nation 's lake and forests than had previously been thought . |
| 22 | Also in the 1930s and 1940s , as has been argued in the last chapter , such scholars as Lazarsfeld , Thurstone , Likert , Stouffer and Guttman had begun to develop a quite different approach to attitudes than had previously been considered . |
| 23 | While some argue that the anti-labour nature of many of the governments in such low-wage countries makes the task of the TNCs even easier , others argue that the TNCs tend to bring a more progressive atmosphere into labour relations than had previously been the case in such countries . |
| 24 | More recent histopathological and microvascular studies suggest that vascular involvement may occur at an earlier stage and play a more important role in the disease process than had previously been supposed . |
| 25 | They demonstrated that the validity of verbal , numerical and reasoning aptitude tests can be generalised far more widely across occupations than had previously been realised . |
| 26 | We found indications that homophonic phrases were more of a problem than had previously been thought . |
| 27 | One of the most exciting suggestions to emerge from the research of the Schools Council History project , and in later research into primary history teaching methods , has been the idea that certain , concept-based methods of History teaching can lead to pupils reaching certain levels of historical understanding at a rather earlier stage than had previously been thought possible . |
| 28 | ‘ The costs of absence are now shown to be much higher than had previously been thought , ’ said Robbie Gilbert , the CBI 's director of employment affairs . |
| 29 | Well we discovered that there were some compounds in interstellar space that we were really rather more complicated than had previously been thought possible , and these molecules had infeasible prebiotic species , in that there were very simple reactions that could take place that would allow them to form amino acids and other rather intriguing biological molecules . |
| 30 | One thing that we did was find that there were molecules much , much bigger than was expected in the sense that there were many , many more carbon atoms involved than had previously been thought possible , and even now we just do not understand the processes whereby they are formed . |