Example sentences of "[noun pl] than it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only way in which to reverse this situation and become slim again is to supply the body with fewer calories than it needs for its daily energy requirements , so that it has to draw on the emergency store of calories in its own fat . |
| 2 | Shedding surplus weight depends on providing your body with fewer calories than it needs to keep going . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | So , for example , National Certificate ( level III ) Care requires higher levels of communication and personal and interpersonal skills than it does of numeracy ( see specification on page 7 ) . |
| 5 | Time had a different significance for him and most of his contemporaries than it has for us . |
| 6 | The crucial factor is whether technology provides new jobs at a higher rate in new activities than it eliminates in older industry . |
| 7 | This is made explicit in an executive letter which states that the ‘ objective of increasing the efficiency of the NHS will only be realised if competition delivers more in the value of savings and/or quality improvements than it adds to transaction costs ’ ( DoH , 1989g ) . |
| 8 | While the price of doing business in Russia is high — the cost of office space in Moscow , for example , is rocketing — Hall reckons Sun kit will cost less in the Commonwealth of Independent States than it does in the rest of Europe , where customers are used to paying a premium for computer products . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The Labour Party entered the election campaign with more advantages than it realised . |
| 11 | The tensions associated with starting school could begin to be dissolved long before that anxiously awaited first day , a day which often causes more anguish to parents than it does to their children . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | If the government then uses this money to repay the national debt by buying back more bonds and Treasury bills than it issues , this will release the money back into the economy again . |
| 14 | We must also remember that the Bible has more to say about giving to meet the needs of other individuals than it does about supporting Christian institutions . |
| 15 | It could present a legal problem resulting in the council spending more on those costs than it saved in the first place . |
| 16 | It is amazing that , although agriculture in general faces cuts , if the proposals were adopted the CAP could cost more over the next seven years than it does now . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | However , it may be wrong to assume that this inability to create a coordinated response is a bad thing : a truly-integrated response to the cities from the Conservative governments elected in 1979 and after might have been even more detrimental to the major conurbations than it has been . |
| 19 | If you give it more insects than it needs , what does it do with these extra insects ? |
| 20 | The steering worried me more on Brecon 's narrow tracks than it had on the motorway . |
| 21 | A hundred years after his death his approach seems more relevant to botanical studies than it has ever been . |
| 22 | From the point of view of the resources crisis , this looks like a reasonably rational response : because there are so many more ‘ run of the mill ’ than ‘ serious ’ offenders , a bifurcated policy should save many more resources than it costs . |
| 23 | One industry spokesman comments : ‘ The overall performance of computerised management systems within the hotel industry relates more to the attitudes of managers towards training and the commitment of their suppliers than it does to the ‘ superiority ’ of the individual systems . ’ |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | While the price of doing business in Russia is high — the cost of office space in Moscow , for example , is rocketing — Hall reckons Sun kit will cost less in CIS than it does in the rest of Europe , where customers are used to paying a premium for IT products . |
| 26 | mm yes get us at a much more er er effective role in reducing tariffs on manufactured goods than it has on agricultural goods and it 's only in this last round of G A T T talks , the Uruguay round that agriculture has been brought into the frame alright . |
| 27 | The world now manufactures seven times more goods than it did in 1950 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Does the worsening trade balance in manufactured goods over the ‘ long boom ’ and through the point where the UK imports more manufactured goods than it exports mean that the UK 's export industries have failed ? |