Example sentences of "[noun pl] than it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The USSR devoted more energy and resources to the development of diplomatic and trading ties with these nations than it did to establishing effective operational links with the Communist parties . |
| 2 | If possible , life was harder even for these ragged redskins than it had been for their forefathers after the war with Rope Thrower , when their livelihood had been deliberately burned away from them . |
| 3 | The Labour Party entered the election campaign with more advantages than it realised . |
| 4 | Of course , with this strategy being market-oriented , it is possible that one firm could purchase more pollution permits than it needed , with the intention of keeping out competitors , and the market would cease to function . |
| 5 | It could present a legal problem resulting in the council spending more on those costs than it saved in the first place . |
| 6 | Between 1977 and 1986 , the Ministry of Agriculture ( MAFF ) opposed most applications for large-scale development on the best UK farmland but , by 1987 , a sudden swing in the opposite direction saw MAFF allowing five times more applications than it opposed . |
| 7 | The steering worried me more on Brecon 's narrow tracks than it had on the motorway . |
| 8 | Indeed , Wirral had no more reason to have such structures than it had for setting up multi-professional committees to discuss the dangers of residents keeping snakes as pets in council-owned properties . |
| 9 | The world now manufactures seven times more goods than it did in 1950 . |
| 10 | If a firm is operating in a good , competitive market then , notwithstanding the problems associated with accounting measurements , profit does give an indication of how well it produced goods : the market was willing to pay more for the finished goods than it cost the firm to produce them , if the firm made a profit . |
| 11 | In that year the UK imported more manufactured goods than it exported ; it appeared to mark the end of its role as the workshop of the world . |
| 12 | The Hungarian Socialist Party ( HSP ) , which had won a far smaller representation in the Országgyülés than it had hoped , had campaigned for a referendum on the issue ( in an attempt to avoid indirect election within the legislature ) , which was held on July 29 . |
| 13 | He selected Ellis , grandson of Red Grizzly Bear , a choice which angered Lawyer and Joseph and created more problems than it solved . |
| 14 | Like its predecessors , it attracted attention from many sources , and in the liberal or liberated social climate of the post-war years it probably created more problems than it solved . |
| 15 | It was occasionally recognised , however , that self-defence might create more problems than it solved , as when Mr Punch recovered his wit and arranged for two anti-garotters to meet one dark night in a lonely street : |
| 16 | But the new act created more political problems than it solved . |
| 17 | Herzen 's suggestion that it continue in the West created more problems than it solved . |
| 18 | I am sure that had nothing to do with her withdrawal but the way she did it raised more questions than it answered . |
| 19 | • Announcing his decision to ‘ unretire ’ himself and return to the Williams team next year , Nigel Mansell issued a wordy statement which posed many more questions than it answered . |
| 20 | Perhaps the display asked more questions than it answered but it 's clear that the young stars are staking claims early . |
| 21 | However , the sudden intervention of the princess herself in the speculation about her marriage raised more questions than it answered . |
| 22 | The restoration caused no trouble to the East India Company , which was quite soon able to turn itself into a distinctly royalist body and was given a rather wider range of political powers than it had possessed before . |
| 23 | The Government claims National Health Service dentists overspent their budget last year by treating more patients than it 'd estimated . |
| 24 | Researchers working in the 1950s perhaps could be forgiven for not recognizing the importance of ethnicity in family relations , since Britain was a more monolithic society in ethnic terms than it became subsequently . |
| 25 | The present Conservative government found it much more difficult to introduce and regulate charges than it had anticipated , an indication of the difficulty being the long delay in issuing a promised consultative document on charges and the further delay before guidelines were produced . |
| 26 | The Campaign now has more paid-up members than it did at the height of the 1970s real ale revival . |
| 27 | This is partly because , as indicated earlier , the acquisition of the superego takes place in the modern individual in a different sequence of stages than it did in the culture , and partly because cultural psychological phenomena often present a clearly separated-out picture of their components whereas individual neuroses are often less easy to disentangle . |
| 28 | He said that last year the World bank derived a greater income from interest payments and debt repayments than it paid out in development aid and investment in the poorest countries . |
| 29 | The spectacle last week of 400 officers in riot gear running round the Broadwater Farm Estate and finding little or nothing in the way of drugs reminded me of Sir Robert Mark 's definition of a good police force as one which employed fewer criminals than it caught . |
| 30 | The still-rarefied atmosphere received a heavy blast of different air as the school opened its gates to the bulging generation of girls born just after the war and a working class bound for higher educational achievements than it had ever had within its reach . |