Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] than it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Examining Spenser and Ireland , therefore , raises more questions about relations between literary texts and historical contexts than it resolves . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Empowerment on the shop floor appears to be more widespread in Japanese enterprises than it does in the bureaucratically conceived Fordist structures of Western modernity . |
| 5 | The steering worried me more on Brecon 's narrow tracks than it had on the motorway . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Shedding surplus weight depends on providing your body with fewer calories than it needs to keep going . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Companies are merely voluntary associations of individuals joined together by contract , and correspondingly the state has no greater standing to intervene in corporate affairs than it has in the individual affairs of the citizens who make the company up . |
| 10 | Cauterets in fact has more healing waters than it knows what to do with , for on the roadside outside the town you pass small , steaming escapes of water as yet untapped . |
| 11 | The first is in part provided by banks in the form of overdrafts , that is , the company may , by agreement , write cheques for larger sums than it has on deposit . |
| 12 | The first is in part provided by banks in the form of overdrafts , that is , the company may , by agreement , write cheques for larger sums than it has on deposit . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | As the phonemic contrasts in one 's own language are " built in " , it can be expected that it takes longer to detach oneself from these contrasts than it takes to master the actual pronunciation . |
| 15 | A hundred years after his death his approach seems more relevant to botanical studies than it has ever been . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | But the new act created more political problems than it solved . |
| 18 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Dataease 4.5 has more good points than it has problems . |
| 21 | Why tolerate the misery of unemployed people when , if given jobs on works of improvement , it would make a Britain with better services than it has at present ? |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The Labour Party entered the election campaign with more advantages than it realised . |
| 24 | It could present a legal problem resulting in the council spending more on those costs than it saved in the first place . |
| 25 | Yet such a conclusion may raise more questions than it answers . |
| 26 | Like any stimulating text it leaves the reader pondering on more questions than it answers . |
| 27 | This passage raises a good many more questions than it answers . |
| 28 | Yet the editor of the Sunday Times explained his paper 's coverage and position in a way which begs more questions than it answers . |
| 29 | Inevitably the preliminary review presented in this chapter raises more questions than it answers . |
| 30 | Readers will note that the rest of this book will sometimes raise more questions than it answers , but they will , I hope , agree that raising questions is at least a step towards providing answers and solving problems . |