Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] than it [verb] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 Perversely it costs more per unit quantity to pack in drums than it does in 5 litre quantities .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 Is n't it , but you do n't you think that 's more so for females than it is for males , the fact that it is such a dirty thing that , that applies more to females than it does , to males ?
7 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 .
8 Parent-child identification is less clear-cut among girls than it appears to be in boys .
9 Today undoubtedly a marriage involves fewer regulations regarding property between spouses than it did in the eighteenth century .
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