Example sentences of "[adj] than it [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The often mentioned ‘ crisis ’ in British broadcasting — ‘ crisis ’ , in Gouldner 's phrase , being that the system ‘ may , relatively soon , become something quite different than it has been ’ — thus acts as a backdrop for numerous contemporary analyses of broadcasting . |
| 2 | But within this context , Wilkins ' elegant stuccoed facades will be retained , and an important landmark has been saved and will look far more handsome and dignified than it has for many years . |
| 3 | Topics will include Compulsory Competitive Tendering , Local Management of Schools , the Community Charge and National Vocational Qualifications ( probably a lot more interesting than it sounds in black & white ! ) . |
| 4 | Maybe it 's more exciting than it sounds . |
| 5 | CS : ‘ You can say all you like , but it 's clear that soul music is more popular than it has ever been , worldwide . ’ |
| 6 | The line-up in the Bundesrat is less clear than it appears . |
| 7 | Secondly , many of the subjects in the list can be studied in pairs , in ‘ joint ’ or ‘ combined ’ subject degrees , so that the overall pattern of studies is less specialized than it appears . |
| 8 | This may sound a silly question , since this book assumes that its readers are looking for a place to live in the British Isles , but it is more sensible than it sounds . |
| 9 | Their condition feels more normal than it has ever done before . |
| 10 | However , as a rough guide , it feels slightly more Gibson-like than it does Fenderish , if that helps . |
| 11 | Foreign investors are beginning to worry that the Mexican peso is less solid than it looks . |
| 12 | The process of fusing Ministerial intentions and departmental expertise in the formulation of policy is a great deal more subtle than it appears to be at first sight . |
| 13 | The problem is even more acute than it appears , for singular existential propositions too resist a reductivist treatment and can not be simply brushed off as " ungrammatical " . |
| 14 | This is less odd than it looks : it pays creditors to avoid the delays and legal costs of chapter 11 . |
| 15 | You 've got to get Boris 's agreement before anyone can press the trigger or is this actually much more dangerous than it sounds , is he saying we want to take over the nuclear weapons . |
| 16 | jetskiing across flooded fields is more dangerous than it looks , because of the hiden dangers of submerged fence posts and barbed wire . |
| 17 | For example , as we noted , the definition of pragmatics as concerned with encoded aspects of context may be less restrictive than it seems at first sight ; for if in general ( a ) principles of language usage have as corollaries principles of interpretation , and ( b ) principles of language usage are likely in the long run to impinge on grammar ( and some empirical support can be found for both propositions ) , then theories about pragmatic aspects of meaning will be closely related to theories about the grammaticalization of aspects of context . |
| 18 | I foresee the photographic work becoming much more project oriented than it has been — for specific publications etc . |
| 19 | ( Since many farmers vote Socialist , this idea is less bland than it sounds . ) |
| 20 | Particularly , the notion of ‘ equivalent ways of doing or saying the same thing ’ to which Weiner and Labov obliquely refer ( see above ) is much less straightforward than it seems . |
| 21 | Despite his defeat , Labour is more homogeneous than it has ever been . |
| 22 | Beginning with the distribution of medical practitioners , a PEP report in 1944 found that it was ‘ determined primarily by the income level or the rateable capacity of the locality ’ , and perceptively concluded that this disparity ‘ is even more serious than it appears … because ‘ under-doctored ’ districts are usually also poor districts with high rates of sickness and mortality ’ . |
| 23 | This may be less serious than it seems . |
| 24 | When the Boundary Commission looks at these matters over every 10 years or so , demography and demographic conditions have to be considered , and it is less easy than it appears on paper simply to provide consistency in terms of the demographic relationship of the people living in the country and the number of Members representing them in the House . |
| 25 | Although it will probably never be a picture postcard village , during the last two or three years some farmers have started to replace the hedges that were removed a generation ago , and to plant trees , so perhaps in years to come the parish will again look something like the pictures of it in days gone by , less bleak and windswept than it does today . |
| 26 | The Sphinx : probably carved from rock that had been roughly shaped by the wind , and therefore even more ancient than it seems . |
| 27 | The debate about using readmission to measure quality of care is obviously much more complex than it seems at first sight . |
| 28 | The result is patterns of support whose basis is probably far more complex than it appears to an outsider and which also perhaps includes the expectation that love and affection themselves will be reciprocated ( Summerfield , 1986 ) . |
| 29 | What makes Mr Yashin 's ambitious goal less ludicrous than it sounds is Sberbank 's near-monopoly of Russia 's household savings . |
| 30 | This was far more tricky than it sounds . |