Example sentences of "than [Wh det] is [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever is thought masculine is also valued more highly than whatever is considered feminine . |
| 2 | The year 1660 saw a major revolution in grave-clothes , indirectly leading to the firm establishment of undertaking as a distinct trade , the birth of a new industry and some additional work for the jobbing printer ; for in this year an Act came into force , which decreed that all persons had to be buried in shifts , shrouds and winding-sheets made of woollen material , rather than linen , and free from ‘ Flax , Hemp , Silk , Hair , Gold or Silver , or other than what is made of Sheeps Wooll only ’ . |
| 3 | Moreover , star formation within the central parsec requires gas densities higher than 3x10 7 cm -3 to avoid tidal disruption , a value much higher than what is observed at present . |
| 4 | If it is obvious to both of them that what the speaker has just said is false , or so obvious as to need no comment at all , the hearer will look for implications , that is to say what is implied other than what is expressed . |
| 5 | For example , the ways in which a child , boy or girl , relates to the parent of the same sex seems to be produced by something more than what is given in the actual family situation . |
| 6 | Here again we can ask what else we could possibly start from other than what is given , that is to say the evidence of our senses . |
| 7 | than what is tendered |
| 8 | The importance of this is that word-of-mouth information from shop assistants , salesmen and agents seems more influential for consumers than what is written into credit notices and contracts — but of course much less easy to regulate . |
| 9 | But what is included is less revealing than what is excluded : all the excessive elements of working-class consumption that refuse to fit neatly into this socialist continence — Stanley knives , lurid cocktails , Blind Date , trash videos , tabloids , bingo , heavy metal , Club 18–30 … |
| 10 | The fact that existing structures of policing ( or defence ) are more effective than what is proposed is less important than the principle that such matters should be the preserve of a united European Government . |
| 11 | Under the income support system , if a person 's resources are less than what is deemed to be his or her ‘ applicable amount ’ of Income Support , then eligibility is gained . |
| 12 | It is our reasons for asserting a dependent conditional which bring in a good deal more than what is brought in by the conditional itself . |
| 13 | The housing stock which remains with the local authority tends to be less attractive than what is sold off , and much of it is less suitable for elderly people whose needs are for low-cost , good quality housing with ground-floor access in a safe and secure neighbourhood and close to good social support networks . |
| 14 | Moreover , just as there are general references to Salic law in the Pactus Legis Salicae , so too there are broad allusions to Ripuarian law in the Lex Ribvaria , suggesting once again that there was more to the law than what is contained in the code . |
| 15 | But change it does , and there is no better barometer of that change than what is censored , by libraries as well as by other institutions . |
| 16 | Being gripped by a narrative is an altogether wider notion than what is presaged by the two-in-one of being outside yet inside Raskolnikov 's ‘ strange smile ’ : the rehearsal of the murder , the murder sequence itself , the three long duels with the detective Porfiry , the suffering , the hesitation , the final climb up the police-station stairs . |
| 17 | The historian D.L.W. Tough comments that the main pointers are in what is omitted rather than what is mentioned : barely a reference to shirts or nightshirts , and the possibility that even adult Borderers had their underclothes sewn on and removed as seldom as those of slum children in later industrial cities . |