Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adj] than it [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While much of the UK is looking gloomily at the dark clouds of a major recession , it seems poetic justice that for at least some of Belfast 's population , the future looks better than it has for many years . |
| 2 | If this card is an instruction card it must be obeyed by the person asking the question , the instruction card is then placed at the bottom of the pack , instruction cards are ren randomly mixed with the question cards and can change directions of play , make you give to the player to the left one of your cards etcetera , if a player has more than it does n't say . |
| 3 | What is worse still , they start from a wholly inadequate skill base which hinders more than it helps by carving up approaches which should be integrated into arbitrary professional divisions called ‘ occupational therapy ’ , ‘ physiotherapy ’ and so on . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , modern nomenclature loses more than it gains . |
| 5 | It is particularly harmful to farmers elsewhere because the Community — with its guaranteed price of , eg , wheat , standing at 165 ecus ( $225 ) per tonne — produces more than it needs , then dumps its surplus onto the world market . |
| 6 | But the subsection tantalizingly offers more than it gives . |
| 7 | So it seems everybody 's got their head against a brick wall at the moment because of in fact the whole world seems worse than it 's ever been . |
| 8 | Secondly , however , we must also avoid the mistake of thinking that the conditional " If the switch was flipped , the wipers started " means more than it says : it is about the flipping and the starting . |
| 9 | I shall argue that the concept of profession , even in its most radical formulations , obscures more than it reveals about the work people do , and that alternative concepts based on the specific practices of various occupational groups should be substituted . |
| 10 | This is helpful in pointing to long-term shifts in sexual norms in the last century ( though its dating is misleading ) , but it combines both an evolutionist teleology ( with the present appearing as little more than a culmination of ineluctable historical trends ) and a use of the metaphor of repression which in the end is emotive rather than analytical and obscures more than it reveals . |
| 11 | But I think that contemporary interpretations of Dicey as a positivist who was concerned to freeze late nineteenth century political principles obscures more than it illuminates . |
| 12 | That average conceals more than it reveals : the OECD expects seven countries to have real GNP growth of 3% or more . |
| 13 | Greenways which runs this landfill spends more than it has to by law to make sure the site is safe . |
| 14 | Director Malcolm Sutherland , who had a major success with his adaptation of The Wasp Factory is plainly drawn to the wayward or the warped , but this play promises more than it delivers . |