Example sentences of "than [pers pn] is [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 's more at home than she is at work . |
| 2 | This woman inhabits several time spans at once : she is no less at home with the whirling world of angels and demons than she is with the cordless phone and the digital clock . |
| 3 | ‘ Even then , ’ says one of the filmmakers , ‘ Breathless was dramatically different than she is in the final script . |
| 4 | The shadow is not over God more than it is over anything else . |
| 5 | One sometimes gets the impression that IBM Corp is more solicitous over the needs of its Stamford , Connecticut-based IBM Credit Corp subsidiary than it is over its own , and yesterday , in the wake of the parent 's big $285m loss , IBM Credit was able to announce that profits actually rose 0.3% at $58.3m ; the return on average equity was 20.2% , compared with 21.3% in the first quarter of 1992 and in the first three months of 1993 , IBM Credit originated financing for $1,700m of equipment , software and services for IBM 's customers and distribution channels , down 22% on the figure for the first quarter 1992 — financing for end users decreased by 45% to $600m while financing for distribution channels decreased by 1% to $1,100 , the company noted . |
| 6 | However in England , the evidential burden on the prosecution may not be any greater than it is under Categories 1 and 2 in many of the situations which they cover , for , as Glanville Williams has pointed out : ‘ If the prosecution gives evidence that violence was used , this should be enough to discharge the evidential burden on the issue of consent and take the case to the jury … |
| 7 | Labour 's Peter Mandelson dismissed the remarks and added : ‘ It is impossible to imagine a housing market more depressed than it is under the present Tory government . |
| 8 | West Oxfordshire accounts for just 10% and West Oxfordshire has always been a prudent careful Council , and if Oxfordshire followed West Oxfordshire 's policy , then the community charge would be very considerably less than it is under Labour/S L D over-spending policies . |
| 9 | Below S * you would have to pay more than it is worth to you to have the tree cut back further . |
| 10 | Where there is no chronic medical problem , poor attendance is less of a problem with executives than it is with junior employees . |
| 11 | If the elderly relative is your own mother , frank discussion of problems is usually ( but not always ) easier than it is with an in-law . |
| 12 | Although it is no easier to blame either him or Diana completely for the separation than it is with any parting couple , it is beyond doubt that he is principally responsible . |
| 13 | I take the view myself that when one has a person in advancing years , in some respects an impairment of movement may perhaps be more serious than it is with a younger person . |
| 14 | This notion is intriguing , and acknowledges the fact that carbon is actually more common in much of the rest of the Universe than it is on Earth . |
| 15 | Generally , the effect on triglyceride metabolism of excellent diabetic control is more profound than it is on cholesterol and LDL . |
| 16 | At one side of the galaxy the gas is travelling at 700 km per second faster than it is on the other side . |
| 17 | It 's much harder on them than it is on you . ) |
| 18 | The whole thing is a lot tougher on Tod than it is on me . |
| 19 | But also , look as those er , those short answers , now it 's important that you answer the short answer questions well alright , because it 's , it 's a lot easier to get good marks on a short answer question , providing you do it well , than it is on a long answer question . |
| 20 | It is n't clear from the evaluation that the money is better spent on air ambulance services than it is on improving intensive care facilities . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Staff morale is higher than it is on the NHS . |
| 22 | Yes , I , I think really that 's why it 's a lot easier to read the time on an analogue display than it is on a digital display . |
| 23 | snow than it is on top . |
| 24 | I went to see her in panto , honestly , she was terrible , she whined yeah her voice was even more marked Aus Australian than it is on here . |
| 25 | Barbed wire might well become more common than it is at the moment . |
| 26 | It is more difficult to trace the spatial patterning of central-government spending than it is at a local level . |
| 27 | I can recall the phrase ‘ being left behind ’ ( whatever it meant ) being used far more frequently than it is at present . |
| 28 | Even on a cloudless , sunny day , the late afternoon sunlight is much warmer in tone than it is at noon . |
| 29 | Just as within a state the law may be more effective in responding to armed robbery than it is at responding to a military coup d'état , so in relations between states the law may be better at laying down detailed provisions for the treatment of prisoners of war than it is at addressing the potential human catastrophe of a nuclear war . |
| 30 | Just as within a state the law may be more effective in responding to armed robbery than it is at responding to a military coup d'état , so in relations between states the law may be better at laying down detailed provisions for the treatment of prisoners of war than it is at addressing the potential human catastrophe of a nuclear war . |