Example sentences of "[noun prp] than it is " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , it occurs to me to ask is Islam less strict in Kuwait than it is in Saudi Arabia , where , I gather , women are not allowed to drive cars , thieves will have their hands cut off and things like that . |
| 2 | It is far easier to characterize a madrigal by Morley than it is to sing a song by Byrd , partly because singers respond more intuitively and quickly to Morley 's text-illustrative music than to Byrd 's learned ( but still rhetorical ) polyphonic word-setting , partly because a Morley text will often be a chain of discrete moments where a Byrd text is more complex in syntax and in the connection of its ideas . |
| 3 | It 's more expensive to manufacture things here in Bolivia than it is to buy contraband . |
| 4 | The whole thing is a lot tougher on Tod than it is on me . |
| 5 | Acid rain damage to forests is no worse in Poland or Czechoslovakia than it is in western Germany or Sweden , while average concentrations of particulates in Budapest and Warsaw are within EC safety standards . |
| 6 | The case for fair voting for all elections , to bring together communities and encourage cooperation , and for a Bill of Rights to protect individuals , is even more pressing in Northern Ireland than it is in the rest of the UK . |
| 7 | John Bayley , after the remark quoted above , goes on to complain about ‘ the almost purely technical nature of this modern criticism , even more unsuited to how we actually respond to Dostoevsky than it is to most authors . ’ |
| 8 | Mm , well the cost of living is certainly no cheaper in Austria than it is here . |
| 9 | Bernier constantly contrasts Mughal India and seventeenth-century France : the Jumna compares favourably with the Loire , he thinks ; adultery is easier in Paris than it is in Delhi : ‘ in France it only excites merriment , but in this part of the world there are few instances where it is not followed by some dreadful and tragical catastrophe . ’ |
| 10 | Freedom of choice is no longer on the agenda , especially now that American Jews have discovered that it is easier to raise money for absorbing Soviet Jews in Israel than it is for resettling them in the US . |
| 11 | on providing youth facilities in Netherhall than it is for five hundred thousand pounds |
| 12 | I actually expected her to be at home a lot more often cos it 's o , it 's a lot quicker for her to ge , to get from Blackheath to wha to er Ca Camberwell than it is to get back here . |
| 13 | Oddly enough Unix System Labs , when it was building Destiny from which UnixWare derives , explored using the Mac interface and originally intended to make the interface created in-house instead much more Mac-like than it is . |
| 14 | Cocom is more relaxed about Eastern Europe than it is about Russia . |
| 15 | The trend towards downsizing — which it describes as moving power down to the desktop level — is already more advanced in Europe than it is in the US , it claims , where the power of large corporations tends to prolong the supremacy of mainframes . |
| 16 | And in fact Hartlepool is much more related to Durham than it is to er North Yorkshire . |
| 17 | The CFI at Nelson , Jenny Frame ( the only lady aero club CFI I met during my trip , though the proportion of female instructors and pilots seems much higher in New Zealand than it is in the UK ) told me that although this state of affairs was unusual , a great deal of their flying did normally comprise scenic flights for tourists . |
| 18 | ‘ No more unlikely , surely , for a girl from Darlington than it is for a boy from the East End of London ? ’ |
| 19 | It is extraordinary that it is easier for the EC to export to Hungary , Czechoslovakia and Poland than it is for those countries to export to the EC . |
| 20 | has the Minister er studied the Royal College of Nursing Report which was published early last month , which shows that in a third of accident and emergency units in hospitals , patients actually have to stay overnight er before they are admitted to er a ward and would she a accept that this really is not a satisfactory situation , it 's actually worse i outside London than it is in London , contrary to some views . |
| 21 | However that may be , there are reasons for thinking that the abandonment of England , and of any hopes for her , was not much less momentous for Pound than it is for his English readers . |