Example sentences of "[adv] than it [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is not just because inflation is raging less fiercely than it was in the early 1980s , but also because of improvements in the way the labour market works . |
| 2 | ‘ In my opinion the period from three to six is the most important and should be utilised much better than it is today . |
| 3 | Building construction should not be a closed book , and the industry itself is neither well trained nor well informed , otherwise its reputation would be a good deal better than it is . |
| 4 | I hope that when the Bill goes to another place the words recorded in the Official Report , spoken both in Committee and on the Floor of the House , will be examined carefully and that what we have started will be built upon to make the Bill even better than it is . |
| 5 | The programme has never done better than it is doing now , it is going great guns . ’ |
| 6 | If the polys are indeed achieving the parity of esteem they have long sought , their graduates ' relative position during the next recession should prove better than it was during the early 1980s . |
| 7 | The management of the health service is now infinitely better than it was and the trend to devolving responsibility downwards has continued apace . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's a hell of a lot better than it was before , ’ he says , ‘ because virtually every manufacturing use had a potential for inclusion . ’ |
| 9 | Academic analysts are unanimous that the British press is highly partisan , even if it is less so than it was in the last century and even though proprietors are strongly profit-motivated . |
| 10 | Probably your weight was less than it is now , and you were physically more active . |
| 11 | West Oxfordshire accounts for just 10% and West Oxfordshire has always been a prudent careful Council , and if Oxfordshire followed West Oxfordshire 's policy , then the community charge would be very considerably less than it is under Labour/S L D over-spending policies . |
| 12 | Other people who may remember the Secretary of State and write his epitaph are the mothers whose child benefit is still worth £2.15 a week less than it was worth in 1987 for second and subsequent children . |
| 13 | Rather than it 's a wi with more children was n't there this time ? |
| 14 | I like the feeling of doing it ‘ now ’ rather than it being a recording . |
| 15 | In this way , rather than it being an impulsive last second decision , you can prepare and focus your attention on what you are about to do . |
| 16 | To cure spin out the aim is to try and spread the sideways force of the sail along the rails of the board , rather than it being concentrated on the straining skeg . |
| 17 | It was a term assurance rather than it being an endowment insurance . |
| 18 | Now it could possibly be that , he was already married , and would want the children from that marriage to receive all the land that he had , rather than it being spread out with with more children that Ruth was gon na have . |
| 19 | All this , I say , giving my gloss , can be read — and more particularly seen and heard , since Heseltine 's manner and presence carry their own conviction — as the utterance of a man demonstrating that he has been in the wilderness longer than it is in anyone 's interest . |
| 20 | But there is nothing you can do to make it grow longer than it is programmed to do by your body chemistry . |
| 21 | It is usually 2 or 3 times longer than it is wide , and can measure anything from 12′ to 24′ long and 6′ to 8′ wide ( 3.66/7.32 × 1.83/2.44m ) . |
| 22 | If the Prince of Wales had not stood up and spoken as he did that day , the government might have remained entrenched on the subject for considerably longer than it was . |
| 23 | The narrow dog-collar made his neck look even longer than it was . |
| 24 | Er because appreciate when you introduce something new that 's costing a lot of money it can grow out of all proportion if you 're not careful and it 's much harder to take it away than it was to introduce in the first place . |
| 25 | Because Mr Ross was unconscious , he had been unable to steer his vessel and the craft had drifted two miles out to sea much further than it was designed to go . |
| 26 | Just as it is easier to blame witches , agents of the Devil , for male impotence , famine , drought , war , plague and so forth than it is to blame God whom , in spite of all evidence to the contrary , we insist on regarding as a benign and even moral being . |
| 27 | This is Ed 's book more than it is mine . |
| 28 | The bottom line with the café owner has always been about payments for car parking but it becomes a problem if the establishment is closed more than it is open . |
| 29 | The shadow is not over God more than it is over anything else . |
| 30 | Ed Zschau , chief executive of IBM Corp 's AdStar subsidiary , says the company plans to become known as a consumer products company as well as the leader in commercial storage products , and would pursue all of the market opportunities in which it could offer unique products ; he says AdStar aims to become the lowest cost producer in the industry , taking advantage of its technology , scale and commitment to quality ; speaking at the product launch in San Jose , he said that AdStar would also become known , more than it is today , as a software company ; it expects to have personal computer-oriented products in the retail market before the end of the year . |