Example sentences of "[noun] than [ex0] [is] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The degree of laterilisation between different tasks was compared in order to see if there was a greater right field advantage , for example , for words than there is for trigrams .
2 After all there is greater Scriptural justification for such ritual than there is for infant baptism .
3 He says there are vastly more vehicle miles travelled on the road system with 3 carrier bags of shopping in the back of a car than there is with 38 tons of shopping being delivered to the supermarket in a lorry .
4 He shouted , ‘ Yes , there is more between this donkey 's legs than there is between that donkey 's ears ! ’
5 There 's far more interesting activity taking place in Brighton than there is in any other single borough area of the whole of the South East region , and that 's reflected in the amount of money which we give to activities in the Brighton area .
6 That 's right , yes , yes , that 's right , because erm , there 's a gre there 's a higher elasticity of migration inelasticity in respect to income differentials than there is to unemployment , any job creation schemes will lead to more migration , rather than , rather than less , so how , how best to get round the problem ?
7 There is no more agreement about what is a good lecture than there is about good music .
8 For example , there appears to be considerably more mobility between agencies than there is of managers between private firms , so that their interests are less closely linked .
9 Firstly there 's more chance striking a match on wet tripe than there is of Boro getting to the FA Cup Final .
10 There is not the freedom of movement there is with the network system but there is far less deadweight of support staff than there is with the pyramid or layer system .
11 The implication of this is that there is more scope for innovation and change in Europe than there is in the UK .
12 There is more money to be made by trying to increase the efficiency and flexibility of the whole system than there is through having a series of adversarial breaks in the chain .
13 There appears to be less difference between enclaves in Devon and the USA than there is between those in Devon and Somerset .
14 There is more healing joy in five minutes of worship than there is in five nights of revelry …
15 However , there is even less agreement among linguists about how to apply semantics than there is about the use of syntax .
16 There is no more evidence for the use of pattern books as regulators of design than there is for the existence of central workshops servicing definable territories .
17 Although there is a risk from the mood-altering properties of these substances , there is a greater risk of return to addictive use of drugs from unrelieved pain than there is from the strictly temporary appropriate use of these mood-altering chemicals .
18 Furthermore , there is a much wider and more flexible gap between the two toes of the mountain goat than there is in other ungulates .
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