Example sentences of "[det] than [is] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is too the fact that the original letter or document is charged with an emotion , an urgency , and an immediacy , to which the later printed record can never pretend At least for some — and probably for more than is generally imagined — the original document , letter or journal is the best door into the past . |
| 2 | They are quite expensive and contain substantially more than is usually needed . |
| 3 | Longer life for the individual has probably brought some gains to the community , although perhaps less than is often believed ; yet improvements in longevity in very recent years have been small and the prospects of further improvements do not , at the moment , appear very promising . |
| 4 | We shall argue that French and British policy-making differ less than is often supposed . |
| 5 | A celebrated passage of Aristotle 's Politics ( 1313b38 ) proves less than is sometimes assumed . |