Example sentences of "[adj] than it has " in BNC.
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| 1 | The often mentioned ‘ crisis ’ in British broadcasting — ‘ crisis ’ , in Gouldner 's phrase , being that the system ‘ may , relatively soon , become something quite different than it has been ’ — thus acts as a backdrop for numerous contemporary analyses of broadcasting . |
| 2 | But within this context , Wilkins ' elegant stuccoed facades will be retained , and an important landmark has been saved and will look far more handsome and dignified than it has for many years . |
| 3 | Moneymen hope that parliament will act faster on this than it has on company-law reform . |
| 4 | CS : ‘ You can say all you like , but it 's clear that soul music is more popular than it has ever been , worldwide . ’ |
| 5 | It is likely that under those agreements extradition within Europe would in future be easier than it has been in the past , which I think the hon. Gentleman would welcome . |
| 6 | Their condition feels more normal than it has ever done before . |
| 7 | Wirral Ranger Services principal officer Jim Lester said : ‘ The number of cocklers in the estuary is much lower than it has been , partly due to the cockle beds being reduced . |
| 8 | Pulling out of the ERM in September and letting the pound float away from the rest of the bunch now looks even smarter than it has in the interim — particularly in the light of Sweden 's experience . |
| 9 | I foresee the photographic work becoming much more project oriented than it has been — for specific publications etc . |
| 10 | Despite his defeat , Labour is more homogeneous than it has ever been . |
| 11 | While much of the UK is looking gloomily at the dark clouds of a major recession , it seems poetic justice that for at least some of Belfast 's population , the future looks better than it has for many years . |
| 12 | The skin around his neck is loose and his waist is thicker than it has ever been . |
| 13 | Its six is n't a BMW six — not smooth and eager , but more stolid and insistent , bigger on torque than on power and with no special desire to rev more than it has to . |
| 14 | The interest of some countries , notably Romania , in a doctrine of ‘ national defence ’ has not impressed Poland 's military commanders any more than it has their Soviet patrons . |
| 15 | That may well mean that waste disposal should cost more than it has done in the past . |
| 16 | In schools , the development of European awareness will have to be built into the curriculum much more than it has been so far . |
| 17 | I note that the report to which the hon. Gentleman refers says : ’ Labour , if elected , would have little scope for increased spending in the early years unless it were willing to increase taxes by more than it has indicated . ’ |
| 18 | Greenways which runs this landfill spends more than it has to by law to make sure the site is safe . |
| 19 | The Egyptian foreign minister , Amr Moussa , made it clear he expected Israel to offer more than it has so far to return the deportees to their homes in the occupied territories . |
| 20 | The recent liberalization of legal services which allows more people to do conveyancing may make it even more important than it has been hitherto . |
| 21 | The outcome of these changes is that the drug bill is rising faster than it has for some years and above the rate of inflation . |
| 22 | Sport has helped to give the English a coherent national culture no less than it has the Irish , the Welsh , or the Scots . |
| 23 | As in this family , there is some migration of young people from the rural areas to the towns of Northern Ireland but this movement is less than it has been in Scotland or England during the last 40 years . |
| 24 | Second , there is the knock-on effect to the advertising market in the UK and Australia , which is looking weaker than it has for a long time . |
| 25 | Landscape painting is flourishing in Scotland today , artists resident , their subject matter possibly more valued than it has ever been with so much ‘ green ’ and wilderness awareness . |
| 26 | Human beings may become redundant , but the penis will be more essential than it has ever been . |
| 27 | The traditional , massive unemployment of employable disabled people is far worse than it has ever been . |
| 28 | If people in recovery do forget that they have a lifelong disease and — come to believe that they are " cured " , then the original disease reasserts itself once more , not simply very rapidly down to where it was before but , in most common experience , worse than it has ever been . |
| 29 | Since there are more carp and more carp fisheries around today , and so many anglers fishing for carp , it is inevitable that the number caught is higher than it has ever been . |
| 30 | Although annual rail investment , at more than £1bn , is currently higher than it has been for three decades , that results from decisions taken two to three years ago . |