Example sentences of "[adj] than it [verb] " 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | CS : ‘ You can say all you like , but it 's clear that soul music is more popular than it has ever been , worldwide . ’ |
| 8 | The line-up in the Bundesrat is less clear than it appears . |
| 9 | With modern knowledge , we now know that this design of horn would have reflected more sound than it captured ! |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Certainly the AgriBusiness side of it looks less rosy than it did even two years ago . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Their condition feels more normal than it has ever done before . |
| 17 | Yet the Berlin settlement was less stable than it looked . |
| 18 | However , as a rough guide , it feels slightly more Gibson-like than it does Fenderish , if that helps . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Foreign investors are beginning to worry that the Mexican peso is less solid than it looks . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 " . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Outside Europe the struggle in the sugar islands was less destructive than it had been 50 or 60 years earlier . |
| 25 | This is less odd than it looks : it pays creditors to avoid the delays and legal costs of chapter 11 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | ‘ It was all a lot less real than it looked . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | jetskiing across flooded fields is more dangerous than it looks , because of the hiden dangers of submerged fence posts and barbed wire . |