Example sentences of "than it is for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes , it 's cheaper for a whole family to travel than it is for one person . |
| 2 | Since a variety of conduct is included within the term gross indecency , the protection afforded to male patients from sexual exploitation is greater than it is for female patients . |
| 3 | Unfortunately , video imaging systems are not very tolerant of contrast , and the range of brightness between the lightest and darkest areas of a picture which can be reproduced is very much less for video than it is for ordinary colour photography . |
| 4 | on providing youth facilities in Netherhall than it is for five hundred thousand pounds |
| 5 | Gestation is slightly shorter than it is for human mothers . |
| 6 | It is extraordinary that it is easier for the EC to export to Hungary , Czechoslovakia and Poland than it is for those countries to export to the EC . |
| 7 | Thus , Walker points out that , in 1981 , 66.8 per cent of all pensioners lived at or below the 140 per cent supplementary-benefit level , compared with one-fifth of the non-elderly ; and the risk of experiencing poverty is three times greater for those over retirement age than it is for those below it . |
| 8 | It is neither more nor less important that a mentally handicapped adolescent finds a place of work than it is for any other adolescent . |
| 9 | Their pre-school life is often more sheltered than it is for white children . |
| 10 | If you want to get money out it 's harder than it is for white people — they always check you and go away and phone . |
| 11 | Horses learn new things easily when they are young ; it is actually easier for them to learn new things than it is for older horses . |
| 12 | It is entirely wrong to assume that older women , who have been involved in employment during their lives , should experience retirement as any more or less significant than it is for older men . |
| 13 | But there are those for whom the task is easier than it is for most . |
| 14 | What is remarkable about the text-books ( which describe the chemical structure of the various chains in loving detail ) is not so much that they do not explain the discrepancy but that they do not even notice it ; nor are they apparently interested in the fact that the work of fracture for a material like Polythene or Nylon is at least a hundred times higher than it is for most of the thermosetting plastics . |
| 15 | In societies where the organization of social and economic life is based much more closely on kinship than it is for most people in contemporary Britain , women 's involvement in exchanging goods and services with female relatives plays an important role in maintaining the solidarity of the kin group . |