Example sentences of "[noun pl] than it [verb] [prep] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | Time had a different significance for him and most of his contemporaries than it has for us . |
| 5 | The crucial factor is whether technology provides new jobs at a higher rate in new activities than it eliminates in older industry . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It could present a legal problem resulting in the council spending more on those costs than it saved in the first place . |
| 11 | The steering worried me more on Brecon 's narrow tracks than it had on the motorway . |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The world now manufactures seven times more goods than it did in 1950 . |
| 17 | Those who have paid special attention to the interactions of parents and very young children say that the confusion between what belongs to self and what belongs to others applies with even more force to feelings than it does to bodies , and for very much longer . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The Campaign now has more paid-up members than it did at the height of the 1970s real ale revival . |
| 22 | Parent-child identification is less clear-cut among girls than it appears to be in boys . |
| 23 | This is partly because , as indicated earlier , the acquisition of the superego takes place in the modern individual in a different sequence of stages than it did in the culture , and partly because cultural psychological phenomena often present a clearly separated-out picture of their components whereas individual neuroses are often less easy to disentangle . |
| 24 | So far , it seems to the Palestinians that the US listens less to the ‘ moderates ’ of both sides than it does to Israel 's still very powerful , if increasingly defensive , champions , the Jewish lobby , its knee-jerk supporters in the Congress and the media , who are still ready to parrot the Israeli ‘ extremist ’ line that Arafat is , indeed , still Arafat . |
| 25 | The Pill has probably been even more liberating for men than it has for women , as men have to worry even less about contraception than they did before . |
| 26 | Under co-founder Steve Hui , Fremont-based Everex Systems Inc , now trading under Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection , spent millions of dollars trying to produce clones of Apple Computer Inc 's Macintosh and Sun Microsystems Inc workstations and an expensive computerised drafting table without ever getting them to market , according to United Press International ; former managers have also complained anonymously that Everex management frequently ordered more components than it needed in order to get lower prices , the wire service says . |
| 27 | Today undoubtedly a marriage involves fewer regulations regarding property between spouses than it did in the eighteenth century . |
| 28 | 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 ? |
| 29 | Its election campaign , focusing not so much on criticism of communist rule as on demands for a redefinition of Slovenia 's status within Yugoslavia , was attuned to the resentment felt by many Slovenes of the lack of political reform elsewhere in the country , of the hostility of the military leadership to Slovene reforms , and especially of Slovenia 's subsidizing the economies of the " backward " southern republics : with only 8 per cent of Yugoslavia 's population , Slovenia produced 20 per cent of its national product and 25 per cent of its exports , while paying nearly 4@1/2 times more in federal taxes to subsidize other republics than it received in federal finance programmes . |
| 30 | 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 . |