Example sentences of "[adj] than [is] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The effect of innovations such as TVEI and CPVE is likely to be more far-reaching than is at present possible to envisage . |
| 2 | As for his previous career , I do n't know any more than is in the book you saw , Crockford . |
| 3 | Since men seldom underestimate their sexual prowess in discussion with one another , and since girlie magazines indulge in wild flights of sexual fantasy , he had gained the impression that a " natural " rate of sexual activity was far higher than is in fact the case . |
| 4 | The desert has ways of showing , though , that exploitation is even more difficult than is at first apparent . |
| 5 | He argued that ‘ experience is teaching us that medicine can keep some elderly people alive for longer than is of any benefit to them . ’ |