Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] than it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After twenty years of struggle it seemed less likely to liberate any part of Palestine than it had in 1967 . |
| 2 | If we had proportional representation , the Conservative party would find itself with rather more influence in a Parliament in Scotland than it has here . |
| 3 | Protestantism has a deeper significance in Ulster than it has had in Britain for over two hundred years . |
| 4 | Unless the UN proved much tougher in Bosnia than it has been in Croatia , the Owen concession would have meant that , from Serb-held territories in Croatia through Serb-held territories in Bosnia to the border of Serbia itself , Serbs would remain in control , whatever the peace plan said . |
| 5 | Culturally and linguistically , Britain offers a nexus of increasingly plural possibilities , a promising ground for a postmodernism which may in the future develop more strongly in Britain than it has hitherto . |
| 6 | The New Right emphasis on adversary politics and an overload of demands has been more of a critique of democracy in Britain than it has ever been a rigorous description of , and explanation for , British politics . |
| 7 | It took much longer for a consolidated kingship to emerge in France than it did in Germany after the break-up of the Carolingian empire . |
| 8 | that er normally lasts longer from Birmingham than it does for for here . |
| 9 | Before the right hon. Gentleman goes into overdrive , perhaps he will confirm that , in the past three months , industrial production has fallen faster in Germany , faster in France , faster in the United States and faster in Japan than it has in this country ; and that , if we take the last year as a whole , industrial production fell more in Japan , and more in Germany , than in the United Kingdom . |
| 10 | The views of many Conservative Members of Parliament are much more profound in their objection to certain trends in Europe than it has been possible to encapsulate in any short Motion . |
| 11 | While both Angevins would naturally have liked to get their own way in both regions it is likely that the Quercy meant more to Richard than it did to Henry . |
| 12 | Annexation showed that the English government had much more power to take action outside Europe than it had possessed in the first half of the century . |
| 13 | The company recognised that it faced a greater problem in attracting the Kent-based ( Orpington ) staff to Stevenage than it had in persuading the north London staff to move — distance alone was an important consideration . |
| 14 | Sunsoft admits that it has to do a lot more work modifying Solaris 2.0 for Intel than it thought . |
| 15 | That he evidently supposes that a 43-year-old woman , hitherto miserably infertile , could make cod claims on such an issue tells you rather less about Walter than it does about Graham Swannell 's flimsy and opportunistic approach to characterisation . |