Example sentences of "[noun sg] than it [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the aim of palaeoclimate modelling is to ‘ recreate ’ past climates , the geological evidence must be given more weight than it is now . |
| 2 | This is more of an illusion than it is for Britain because there is even less semblance in the US of centralised , national government . |
| 3 | It may be hard to accept , but the argument goes that it is easier for a creative and original performer to learn how to play his instrument than it is for a consummate player to learn creativity . |
| 4 | Oh no you do n't freeze when you 're in the snow , you do n't freeze because it 's colder in the snow than it is , er it 's , warmer in inside the |
| 5 | snow than it is on top . |
| 6 | Although they were the servants of governments whose interests it was their duty to uphold unreservedly , it was easier in such a setting than it is today to recognize certain common interests . |
| 7 | Keeping things simple is often the best bet , an investment of both time and effort is required to learn anything new , so diving in at the deep end with one of the full-blown integrated packages may cause more disruption than it 's worth . |
| 8 | If Basic Instinct is trash than it is trash of a distinguished standard . |
| 9 | It is surely no more the function of the judiciary to tell the GLC where the public interest lay in its spending of public money than it is the function of the judiciary to make similar judgments about spending by the Departments of the central government . |
| 10 | Variations of economic pattern were then more striking ; rural society was a matrix much more localized and resistant to change than it is today . |
| 11 | Until relatively recently ( some two or three generations ago ) it could be said that death was a much more common experience than it is now . |
| 12 | Without Einstein 's insight , in part inspired by the trivial' matter of Mercury 's orbit , our knowledge of science , not to mention our technology , would be at a much lower level than it is today . |
| 13 | Well it 's easier to recruit at the lower level than it is the upper |
| 14 | I mean Tony 's been at the club a long time he 's expressed a wish to go erm his style and his age is probably just right to go on the continent , he 's twenty six years of age and er I would guess that his particular style wou possibly would be better suited to continental play than it is in England . |
| 15 | What this all adds up to is that the coding of give/take relationship in fields quite remote from private domestic affairs is much closer to what the members of modern capitalist societies assume to be appropriate only for the restricted context of the domestic household than it is to the coding of power relationships within the wider context of the market economy which I was discussing earlier . |
| 16 | I only comment that , at a time when Community law is becoming increasingly important , it would be strange if the right of the citizen to recover overpaid charges were to be more restricted under domestic law than it is under European law . |
| 17 | This can be extremely hazardous and it is dangerous to assume that a rug will necessarily be cheaper in the country of origin than it is in the West ; rugs on sale in the bazaars in Turkey , for example , are often just as expensive , if not more so , than they are in London or New York . |
| 18 | Over the next decade and beyond land use and access will become an even more central issue than it is now . |
| 19 | The political culture in Scotland is much more confrontational on the constitutional issue than it is in Wales and the feelings run much deeper . |
| 20 | It is neither more nor less important that a mentally handicapped adolescent finds a place of work than it is for any other adolescent . |
| 21 | Research and development should be taking a bigger priority in our public expenditure and within the private sector than it is even now . ’ |
| 22 | Altering the diet is also far more risky for a child than it is for an adult , so there are more difficult decisions to be made before embarking on an elimination diet . |
| 23 | Although it is no easier to blame either him or Diana completely for the separation than it is with any parting couple , it is beyond doubt that he is principally responsible . |
| 24 | A few decades ago this would have been a much more controversial question than it is today , because one possible answer would have been that the Universe had always existed , and always would . |
| 25 | It 's much easier to get good marks on a short answer question than it is in theory to but most people do n't because they do n't apply the correct technique so to writing short answers . |
| 26 | This notion is intriguing , and acknowledges the fact that carbon is actually more common in much of the rest of the Universe than it is on Earth . |
| 27 | It was also much further south than it is now — just 20 degrees north of the equator . |
| 28 | One sometimes gets the impression that IBM Corp is more solicitous over the needs of its Stamford , Connecticut-based IBM Credit Corp subsidiary than it is over its own , and yesterday , in the wake of the parent 's big $285m loss , IBM Credit was able to announce that profits actually rose 0.3% at $58.3m ; the return on average equity was 20.2% , compared with 21.3% in the first quarter of 1992 and in the first three months of 1993 , IBM Credit originated financing for $1,700m of equipment , software and services for IBM 's customers and distribution channels , down 22% on the figure for the first quarter 1992 — financing for end users decreased by 45% to $600m while financing for distribution channels decreased by 1% to $1,100 , the company noted . |
| 29 | Just as within a state the law may be more effective in responding to armed robbery than it is at responding to a military coup d'état , so in relations between states the law may be better at laying down detailed provisions for the treatment of prisoners of war than it is at addressing the potential human catastrophe of a nuclear war . |
| 30 | Either that , or Einstein 's theory of relativity is wrong , so maybe the fast pulsar deserves even more attention than it is getting . |