Example sentences of "[adj] than it is " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , th yes , well that 's it , they are going facing the station and it used to be so much prettier than it is now . |
| 2 | The pubic louse is broader than it is long and the four hind legs are equipped with claws with which it hangs on to the pubic hairs . |
| 3 | But it sounds a lot more exciting than it is . |
| 4 | It is easier for us to do this than it is for the English or Americans . ’ |
| 5 | America has got to do that , Russia is broken up so it 's lesser than it is , in fact it 's going down , if only they 'd look , but you see they ca n't do it now without outside help . |
| 6 | In historical time , the household formed the unit of work and the division between paid work and domestic work was less clear than it is to-day . |
| 7 | Bermuda in the mid-30s was even more charming than it is now : motor cars were not allowed on the island and most residents travelled on bicycles , usually with a large wicker pannier between the handle-bars . |
| 8 | This statement might be misunderstood by readers to imply that unsafe sex elsewhere is somehow less risky than it is in London . |
| 9 | I must check those feelings which are the expression of physical instinct craving for satisfaction , but God knows celibacy is as painful to women ( even from the physical standpoint ) as it is to men — could not be more painful than it is to a woman . |
| 10 | Like most villages , Lund in past times was much more self-sufficient than it is now , with its own grocers , shoemakers , tailors and the like and , during the 19th century , a second public house , the Speed the Plough . |
| 11 | If the elderly relative is your own mother , frank discussion of problems is usually ( but not always ) easier than it is with an in-law . |
| 12 | But it has never been easier than it is now |
| 13 | But there are those for whom the task is easier than it is for most . |
| 14 | The scale length is the Gibson-like 24¾″ , which actually feels a lot shorter than it is , introducing an almost short scale element into the Carlton story . |
| 15 | The building was 84 metres high , though because it was situated on a hill , with five storeys below ground , it looks shorter than it is . |
| 16 | Gestation is slightly shorter than it is for human mothers . |
| 17 | you know , bits of this and bits of that but there again I think the family service ought to be a lot shorter than it is |
| 18 | But as it was accepted into this relatively formal literary genre , [ h ] -loss seems to have been much less overtly stigmatized than it is today . |
| 19 | In accounting for the curious distortion of the doctrine that has taken place in England , it is clear that this can not be explained by the mere presence of constitutional arrangements based on a separation of powers or it would be much more prevalent than it is . |
| 20 | ‘ No sooner is the dish empty than it is filled again — and with more food than before ! ’ |
| 21 | Obviously , after a major international disturbance of this kind , people are concerned about the airways , and the reality of course is that it 's erm a damn sight more dangerous to cross the M forty than it is to cross the Atlantic . |
| 22 | Labour 's Peter Mandelson dismissed the remarks and added : ‘ It is impossible to imagine a housing market more depressed than it is under the present Tory government . |
| 23 | It is not surprising , therefore , that one finds this pattern in some of the ‘ softer ’ professional fields , such as social work and teaching , where the theory-practice relationship may be less one-way than it is in the ‘ harder ’ ones . |
| 24 | The position of those out of work in Britain then was much harsher than it is today . |
| 25 | Nonetheless , the property market could and should be far more liquid than it is . |
| 26 | Unemployment may still be rising quite sharply ; underlying inflation will not be much lower than it is now ; sterling may need to be supported by a rise in interest rates . |
| 27 | People often say that a certain noise gets louder at night , even though its measured level does not alter ; this is because , at night , the level of the background noise is generally lower than it is during the day , During the recession , people near once noisy factories started to appreciate the quiet . |
| 28 | From evidence such as this we can build up a picture of a society in which child mortality was common ; in which many of the children who survived their first year none the less died before they were twenty , as was still the case down to the early nineteenth century ; in which a serious famine or an outbreak of disease might rapidly depopulate a whole region — and yet in which the expectation of life of those who passed twenty was probably not sensationally lower than it is today . |
| 29 | In the mid-Pleistocene , between one and two million years ago , the sea level around South-East Asia was as much as 660 ft ( 200 m ) lower than it is today . |
| 30 | A mere 18,000 years ago , the sea was 280 ft ( 85 m ) lower than it is now . |