Example sentences of "[noun sg] than it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a reader , it becomes easier to empathise with the androids and their fear than it does with Mildred and her friends in ‘ Fahrenheit 451 ’ who have become passionless . |
| 2 | It takes longer to make William Shatner look young in the make-up department than it does to create the Klingon look : five hours as compared to four . |
| 3 | Since the level of owner-occupation is rising , and the number of future retirees entitled to some form of contributory pension will exceed the current number , it seems likely that private saving will play a greater role in determining the economic status of the elderly in the future than it has done in the past . |
| 4 | Child support will therefore not necessarily be any more reliable or regular in the future than it has been in the past . |
| 5 | This healthy contribution of commercial interests , which , after all , have experience and technical know-how which is often in short supply in ministries , deserves more recognition than it has received , especially since it does much to offset the squalid tale of the involvement by one British company at this time in corrupt monopoly state publishing ventures during the Obote and Nkrumah governments in Uganda and Ghana . |
| 6 | But in particular terms ( and in terms of ‘ kto-kogo ’ ) , economic rationality means that Romania must exchange its hard-earned capacity to manufacture steel or munitions for a dependence on the GDR , Czechoslovakia and the USSR which costs more in freedom and leverage than it saves in economic resources . |
| 7 | The habit of this dominant Quaker in the BFASS of arranging deputations to ministers and approaching kings and emperors brought even less of a result than it had in earlier generations . |
| 8 | As it was , RTD received far less investment than it needed to improve reception . |
| 9 | He also knew , however , that if , as now seemed inevitable , Germany were defeated , it would be even harder for Spain to survive economic isolation than it had been hereto . |
| 10 | Such may possibly have been the motive behind the creation of the muftilik of Cyprus , but the case for the argument seems stronger in isolation than it does when set against the fact that by 979/1571 the creation of such joint muderris/muftiliks appears to have become quite a common practice . |
| 11 | Ironically , during the war years , the pitch was in better condition than it had ever been , as it was given over to the growing of carrots and potatoes . |
| 12 | It is probable that in retrospect he gave that factor more weight than it carried at the time . |
| 13 | On this issue , the decision of the parents should carry far less weight than it does . |
| 14 | As we have already seen , the law has been less ready to protect these interests from negligently inflicted harm than it has been to protect person and tangible property , but we are now concerned only with liability for intended harm . |
| 15 | It must have the additional power of a moral code based on a religion , and there is no part of human affairs in which this applies with more force than it does in the matter of child rearing . |
| 16 | Pragmatism might be less radical in practice than it appears to be in theory . |
| 17 | It may consider it will get better marketing support from Novell and the Univel partnership than it has previously had from the relatively small SCO operation here . |
| 18 | The preservation of the status quo was also Nicholas 's prime concern with regard to central and western Europe , though here , paradoxically , his policy should have involved much more fighting than it did . |
| 19 | Second , because such information would have to be expressed lexically , it is likely to assume more importance in the target text than it does in the source text . |
| 20 | What a turnaround for a Government which only a couple of years ago actually raised more money than it spent and was dedicated to not borrowing . |
| 21 | The heart of the economic matter is whether the government will insist on collecting more money than it spends , so that it can reduce the mountain of public debt that has piled up since 1980 ( see chart 1 ) . |
| 22 | Above all , it must be recalled that , at least in the fifteenth century , military objectives could best be achieved through siege warfare , which gave the cavalry less opportunity than it had enjoyed before . |
| 23 | It might be that if a bird tried to defend too large a territory the amount of energy it would gain from its territorial habit would actually decrease , as it spent more energy on extra defence than it gained from extra food supplies . |
| 24 | Historical research has thus proved more successful in demolishing old myths and theories about the relationship between crime and social change than it has in replacing them with sustainable generalizations . |
| 25 | HP 's decision on Destiny was made despite its awareness that Unix , key to its own strategy , needs greater ‘ uniformity , ’ or at least less fragmentation than it has currently garnered , to succeed in any big way . |
| 26 | America 's federal government recently said it will rely far more on short-term debt to fund its huge deficit than it did in the past . |
| 27 | ‘ At a time when Scotland 's supply of quality players is limited , McCoist can make this tie less of a banana skin than it looks , ’ said Roxburgh , who freely admits he would rather his team were playing Germany , Italy or the Netherlands . |
| 28 | Nigeria 's rainforests have been so exploited for logs that the country now imports more hardwood than it exports . |
| 29 | Diligence at work then may have more to do with the consequences of non-cooperation than it does with internalizing the primacy of company interest . |
| 30 | Hewlett-Packard Co reckons an Intel Corp 80486 platform wo n't be enough to run Microsoft Corp Windows NT and , while it 's watching how Pentium develops , is figuring Microsoft is going to need a better RISC processor than it 's currently got . |