Example sentences of "[adj] than it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bedford was the only new earl created by Edward III after his family settlement in 1362 , and his patronage of the nobility was markedly less generous than it had been in the first two decades of his reign . |
| 2 | The population was becoming less markedly English than it had been at the beginning of the century , with a large number of Ulstermen ( who felt the operation of the leasehold system was squeezing them out of land they had conquered and settled in Ireland ) , Scotsmen , and Germans among the settlers . |
| 3 | With modern knowledge , we now know that this design of horn would have reflected more sound than it captured ! |
| 4 | When Travis seemed in need of another stiff drink , Sebastian served him liberally and , Travis 's tongue more free than it had ever been , he spoke of his love for Rosemary , his wish to marry her , but how because of her sense of propriety she would n't even let him take her out , or so much as mention her name to his family . |
| 5 | John Stevenson feels that this urban migration was important in restructuring the population of Britain , although Glynn and Oxborrow argue that this internal migration was less marked than it had been in the nineteenth century — being about one third of its former level . |
| 6 | Although the influence of Cubism on the German painters was less direct than it had been in the development of Futurism ( the work of Delaunay which the Germans most admired , for instance , was no longer really Cubist at all ) , unlike the Italians the Germans made no attempt to disguise their interest in the movement , and several of the artists of the Blaue Reiter actually thought of themselves as Cubist painters . |
| 7 | Certainly the AgriBusiness side of it looks less rosy than it did even two years ago . |
| 8 | Yet the Berlin settlement was less stable than it looked . |
| 9 | Nevertheless the draw has dealt more sympathetically with the Scots than it did before the 1986 World Cup , when they found themselves grouped with West Germany , Uruguay and Denmark . |
| 10 | Professor Hurstfield has however inferred from the preamble that the government wanted something much more far-reaching than it got : nothing less than unlimited authority to legislate by proclamation . |
| 11 | Outside Europe the struggle in the sugar islands was less destructive than it had been 50 or 60 years earlier . |
| 12 | It may seem also that each vassal could only have one lord : otherwise the bond would be less personal than it purported to be , and the vassal might be involved in a serious conflict of loyalty . |
| 13 | During 1985 this issue was raised once again , though by then the extent of mass unemployment and urban de-industrialization and decay was more stark than it had been in 198l . |
| 14 | ‘ It was all a lot less real than it looked . |
| 15 | The Legislative Reorganization Act of 1970 , the sub committee bill of rights and seniority reform all helped to break the power of committee chairmen in the House of Representatives while other changes , including public and recorded voting , plus new rules decreeing open committee meetings , except in special circumstances , had the effect of making the House more open and accessible than it had ever been before . |
| 16 | It would be too much to say that by 1870 Paris had become a fragrant bower — few cities ever manage that — but it certainly was less odorous and pestilential than it had been . |
| 17 | By means of the balance — long used by assayers and druggists , but less by theoreticians — he made chemistry into something a little more quantitative than it had been . |
| 18 | It was , he noticed , distinctly less warm than it had been , with an east wind blowing as they turned into the Parade . |
| 19 | However , she fell asleep at last , and Breeze took this to mean that the burn must be less serious than it appeared . |
| 20 | — Edwardian working-class sport as a whole was less violent than it had been a half-century before . |
| 21 | The decor , like the dress of those outside , was simpler — the design of chairs and table less extravagant than it had been . |
| 22 | After the Edinburgh summit , that looks much less likely than it did and that can only be good news for Courtaulds . |
| 23 | The scene that greeted her at the top was already less frightening than it had been when Phoebe arrived . |
| 24 | During my blue period my life also seemed to become a lot more structured than it had been for a while . |
| 25 | That is to say , scholars have assumed that around 1550 the English language became much more convergent than it had been before even though there can be no direct evidence that spoken English did become more convergent . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , the relationship between politics and historiography was incomparably more complex than it had been in Stalin 's day . |
| 27 | But at the same time the painter now felt compelled to give in every painting a multiplicity of information about the formal properties of his subject , and this in turn rendered his task in some ways more complex than it had been hitherto . |
| 28 | And yet Efraim Karsh and Inari Rautsi argue pretty persuasively that the first invasion was more reasonable than it seemed , and that the second was caused by the first . |
| 29 | As far as the First Pillar — the defence of the British Isles — was concerned , the country was , paradoxically , more secure and yet more vulnerable than it had ever been . |
| 30 | Although the Nationalists were almost unchallenged in the Catholic community , by the early 1960s their position was more vulnerable than it appeared . |