Example sentences of "than it [is] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peter Ackroyd is all of the formidable pasticheur that he is praised for being , and Dyer 's tale , which affects to be that of someone who lived in the eighteenth century , and in which the element of imitation , present in writing of every kind , is more obtrusive than it is in the other tale , is the livelier of the two . |
| 2 | In addition , when I look at the plight of the millions of people who 've been made homeless recently because of flooding in other parts of the world , it does make me realize how lucky we are as a society that homelessness is still on a much smaller scale here than it is in some countries . |
| 3 | All this , I say , giving my gloss , can be read — and more particularly seen and heard , since Heseltine 's manner and presence carry their own conviction — as the utterance of a man demonstrating that he has been in the wilderness longer than it is in anyone 's interest . |
| 4 | This preliminary chat should be much higher on the agenda than it is in many salons . ’ |
| 5 | That 's why , for instance , it 's easier to produce a big conference at the Brighton Conference Centre where there is almost austere simplicity than it is in Blackpool 's charming but inflexible Winter Gardens . |
| 6 | The concentration of salts in the blood of fresh-water fish is much higher than it is in the water surrounding them . |
| 7 | The case for fair voting for all elections , to bring together communities and encourage cooperation , and for a Bill of Rights to protect individuals , is even more pressing in Northern Ireland than it is in the rest of the UK . |
| 8 | Longevity was once a rarer phenomenon than it is in the late twentieth century . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The problem is worse in some areas than it is in others but , as Karan and Iijima ( 1985 ) point out , soil erosion is particularly acute where steep slopes are cultivated without terracing . |
| 11 | In probably no other country is the image of cycling and the cyclist stronger than it is in the Netherlands . |
| 12 | The CFI at Nelson , Jenny Frame ( the only lady aero club CFI I met during my trip , though the proportion of female instructors and pilots seems much higher in New Zealand than it is in the UK ) told me that although this state of affairs was unusual , a great deal of their flying did normally comprise scenic flights for tourists . |
| 13 | Also , the concept of limited liability in the UK is much more protective of proprietors than it is in the Code Napoleon countries , where , for example , net worth deficiencies have to be made good immediately , otherwise the company must cease trading . |
| 14 | Many people living today , in the advanced industrial societies at least , can not imagine that anything in the past was better than it is in the present . |
| 15 | The detailed differences between the CO and CS maps imply that the pressure of interstellar gas in the bulge is much higher than it is in the disk . |
| 16 | Although Univel claimed its strategy remained unchanged , it also said it was putting more emphasis on the desktop , the Microsoft stronghold where NT is likely to be stronger than it is in Unix 's bailiwick , the server . |
| 17 | The trend towards downsizing — which it describes as moving power down to the desktop level — is already more advanced in Europe than it is in the US , it claims , where the power of large corporations tends to prolong the supremacy of mainframes . |
| 18 | The municipal system has always been even more important proportionally in outpatient , emergency , and primary care services than it is in terms of inpatient activity . |
| 19 | Remember that some criteria are more applicable to certain categories of rug than to others ; for example , the fineness of the knotting is more critical in workshop rugs than it is in village or nomadic items . |
| 20 | This can be extremely hazardous and it is dangerous to assume that a rug will necessarily be cheaper in the country of origin than it is in the West ; rugs on sale in the bazaars in Turkey , for example , are often just as expensive , if not more so , than they are in London or New York . |
| 21 | In water for enzyme-desizing and for peroxide-bleaching , some hardness can be tolerated , because in water of medium hardness the bath stability is better than it is in very soft water . |
| 22 | It is not surprising , therefore , that one finds this pattern in some of the ‘ softer ’ professional fields , such as social work and teaching , where the theory-practice relationship may be less one-way than it is in the ‘ harder ’ ones . |
| 23 | There is also some indication that the appearance of particular items in particular columns is less easily shown as rule-governed than it is in the inner city . |
| 24 | Due process is not appropriate in the diagnosis and treatment of crime any more than it is in medicine , since the scientific investigative process does not and should not proceed along legalistic lines . |
| 25 | However , the proportionate use of custody is very much lower in magistrates ' courts ( at 5.1 per cent for adults in 1999 ) than it is in Crown Courts ( where the corresponding figure was 47.6 per cent : Home Office , 1990f ) . |
| 26 | As will be considered further in Chapter 6 , the large value of institutional holdings , the comparatively small number of institutions , and their mutual accessibility , make joint action more feasible than it is in the case of individual shareholders . |
| 27 | The picture in relation to class inequalities in the geographical distribution of hospitals is even less encouraging than it is in the case of general practitioners . |
| 28 | Second , quality improvement is far more difficult to define and measure in health than it is in education . |
| 29 | Perhaps the most important advance is the recognition of the need to place the child 's interests and welfare above any other considerations — although this may prove simpler in the abstract than it is in practice . |
| 30 | This statement might be misunderstood by readers to imply that unsafe sex elsewhere is somehow less risky than it is in London . |