Example sentences of "[noun pl] than it is " in BNC.
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| 1 | She first went to Vietnam in 1985 at a time when the country was still much more closed to journalists than it is now , full of enthusiasm that she was finally fulfilling a long-time ambition . |
| 2 | Despite these traditions , analysis of student results does not indicate that it is more difficult to gain a first in arts than it is in science subjects . |
| 3 | Remember that some criteria are more applicable to certain categories of rug than to others ; for example , the fineness of the knotting is more critical in workshop rugs than it is in village or nomadic items . |
| 4 | The result is bound to be that it will be far harder to acquire convictions in these cases than it is at the moment . |
| 5 | It has been intermittently active throughout history and may have been even more active in Greek and Roman times than it is now . |
| 6 | What 's more , with so much emphasis placed upon cultivating a creative youth — schools and parents actively promoting music , local radio and TV picking up regional talent , the reasonable cost of good equipment and the ease with which quality demos and records can be made , plus the all-round encouragement young people receive in all recreational pursuits these days — means it was almost certainly harder to break out in those starchy , stifling times than it is now . |
| 7 | Ultimately , of course , Æthelred 's inactivity did cost him his throne , but the point at which this could reasonably have been foreseen may have been little clearer to contemporaries than it is today . |
| 8 | The crime rate is higher in urban areas than it is in rural areas , and the larger the urban area the greater the crime rate is . |
| 9 | The problem is worse in some areas than it is in others but , as Karan and Iijima ( 1985 ) point out , soil erosion is particularly acute where steep slopes are cultivated without terracing . |
| 10 | It 's less usual to enjambe stanzas than it is to enjambe lines and it creates this continuous flow . |
| 11 | Macaulay Culkin is a 12-year-old , 4ft 6in licence to print money and Home Alone 2 : Lost In New York is set to pull in more folding bills than it is possible for the human mind to contemplate . |
| 12 | It is far more painful and exhausting to suppress our emotions than it is to experience them . |
| 13 | Our results suggest that endometriosis is less of a problem during pregnancy and the subsequent four years than it is at other times , although the finding was not significant . |
| 14 | of men working full-time has never been wider in the past 100 years than it is today . |
| 15 | It is the response of the supermarket business as a whole to the demand for a healthier and more natural product , freshly produced to a high standard , which has led to the advent of the in-store bakery , and in turn created the need , at any rate within Sainsbury 's , for structured , high quality management training , geared much more towards how we plan the business to grow over the next five to ten years than it is to simply manning the pumps . |
| 16 | It is no more possible to pass between the dates which compose the different domains than it is to do so between natural and irrational numbers . |
| 17 | Where there is no chronic medical problem , poor attendance is less of a problem with executives than it is with junior employees . |
| 18 | And y am I right , am I right in saying that you 'd say that e even though it may exist in itself , that it may even be , in fact be less in the flats than it is in the , in the wi in that in the wider area ? |
| 19 | In plain English it is more important , in an administrative context , to be seen to be doing something about a politically generated agenda of problems than it is to examine critically the agenda itself . |
| 20 | On a time-scale which may not coincide exactly with our present scientific calculations of geological time , they say that the cycle commences with a period of 1.7 million years when the power of the Life Force is immeasurably stronger and more evident in physical affairs than it is today . |
| 21 | A bank using this technique of funding must charge a higher spread on its own euro-credits than it is paying . |
| 22 | It is harder to explain why the government involved the public in its actions than it is to explain why the various parties involved in the preparation of the rescript thought it could be turned to their advantage . |
| 23 | It could scarcely be more vivid in their memories than it is in mine , but what is also vivid in my memory is the aftermath of those events , which was the Government 's sensible accommodation of the fears and anxieties that had been expressed . |
| 24 | Horses learn new things easily when they are young ; it is actually easier for them to learn new things than it is for older horses . |
| 25 | , I mean it 's a lot easier to think of these things than it is for the other one , er , you would say , that was actually lazy bastard , but we did n't want to offend anybody , er , useless git , |
| 26 | But I personally think it 's more universal to tune guitars to chords than it is to anything else . ’ |
| 27 | As we shall see in Chapter 3 , this conception of measurement , although originally proposed as an account of scientific measurement in general , bears only a superficial relationship to much of measurement in science which is an activity much more integral to substantive theories than it is in most social research . |
| 28 | It has been argued that differentiation in refugia is less marked in trees than it is in insects or birds , because of their different life spans , but such theory provides an explanation for the now sympatric occurrence of 12 species of Eschweilera ( Lecythidaceae ) near Manaus . |
| 29 | But alcoholism is a lesser occupational hazard amongst academics than it is amongst , say , media people , advertising agents or lawyers . |
| 30 | Indeed , it remains a possibility that the mosaics of Gaul influenced the development of pavements in Britain : this is even more applicable to the pavements with type C and B arrangements than it is to the Orpheus mosaics and their associated geometric panels . |