Example sentences of "than is sometimes " in BNC.

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1 The ultimate sanction a country can levy — nationalisation ( expropriation ) of operations is not unknown , but is less frequent than is sometimes believed .
2 Furthermore , since at this time Islam was pursuing a policy of particular openness towards other religions , less of a barrier existed than is sometimes assumed .
3 More care should be exercised in the use of the adjective , as in ‘ autograph manuscript ’ , than is sometimes the case .
4 Throughout much of urban Spain the lower-middle class , whilst larger than is sometimes suggested , was engaged in relatively small-scale economic activities involving little in the way of enterprise : family-based manufacturing , localized commerce , a primitive service sector , and not least important the buying , selling and leasing of land — a major middle-class preoccupation since the disentailment of the Church 's landed property in the mid-nineteenth century .
5 A review carried out last year showed that there was in increase in the number of inshore fishing vessels seeking assistance , and modern navigational equipment and greater speed may be tempting this type of vessel further offshore than is sometimes prudent .
6 The Woodvilles ' personal following was thus smaller than is sometimes assumed .
7 A celebrated passage of Aristotle 's Politics ( 1313b38 ) proves less than is sometimes assumed .
8 The Woodvilles ' personal following was thus smaller than is sometimes assumed .
9 Glass and enamel tesserae , for , are uncommon in Britain — although they do occur more frequently than is sometimes suggested ( Boon 1974 , 345 ; Neal 1976 , 243 ) .
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