Example sentences of "than it is [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where there is no chronic medical problem , poor attendance is less of a problem with executives than it is with junior employees . |
| 2 | Our results suggest that endometriosis is less of a problem during pregnancy and the subsequent four years than it is at other times , although the finding was not significant . |
| 3 | This is less a matter of mass versus elite culture than it is of controlled laboratory situations : what is so highly specialised as to seem aberrant and uncharacteristic in the ( world ) of daily life … can often yield crucial information about the properties of an object of study whose familiar everyday forms obscure it . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Gestation is slightly shorter than it is for human mothers . |
| 7 | Their pre-school life is often more sheltered than it is for white children . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Acid rain damage to forests is no worse in Poland or Czechoslovakia than it is in western Germany or Sweden , while average concentrations of particulates in Budapest and Warsaw are within EC safety standards . |
| 10 | The concerns that I have are that when the road does go in that it does protect and it does in fact more of a protection by being there than it is in actual fact in existence at the moment . |
| 11 | It 's er what this means it means is that the guaranteed price in this country is a lot lower than it is in other European countries . |
| 12 | The crime rate is higher in urban areas than it is in rural areas , and the larger the urban area the greater the crime rate is . |