Example sentences of "than it [is] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is much easier to show a child how to draw , how to compose a Picture , how to use colour , than it is to allow the child full self expression . |
| 2 | I can now speak from experience and say that it 's much easier to spend a day at the office than it is to spend a day at home , and you have the benefit of spending ‘ quality time ’ with your baby at evenings and weekends . |
| 3 | We are used to thinking of ‘ femininity ’ as being something to do with women , when in fact it also represents a set of values or behaviour which are generally regarded with disapproval : to call a man ‘ effeminate ’ is generally to insult him ( rather more , perhaps , than it is to call a woman ‘ masculine ’ ) . |
| 4 | With some models , it is easier to produce a reasonable looking roll than it is to perform a truly round loop . |
| 5 | It is more difficult to talk about the construction of ‘ physical science ’ than it is to talk about the construction of physics , because physical science is not recognized as a discipline in the way that physics is . |
| 6 | So the it should be qu easier to sort these than it is to sort those . |
| 7 | Because the majority of tiles are simply hooked on to the battens , it is easier to replace a slipped or broken tile with a new unit than it is to replace a nail-fixed tile . |
| 8 | It is easier to define the first of these terms and lay out the implications of its consideration , than it is to deal with civil society per se or its relation to the state . |
| 9 | It appears to be easier to categorize users than it is to assign levels to books . |
| 10 | It is much easier to advocate such a policy ( i.e. to avoid making hasty decisions ) on the ground than it is to execute it in the air when presented with an unusual emergency . |
| 11 | In plain English it is more important , in an administrative context , to be seen to be doing something about a politically generated agenda of problems than it is to examine critically the agenda itself . |
| 12 | It is no more possible to pass between the dates which compose the different domains than it is to do so between natural and irrational numbers . |
| 13 | It is harder to explain why the government involved the public in its actions than it is to explain why the various parties involved in the preparation of the rescript thought it could be turned to their advantage . |
| 14 | It is far easier to characterize a madrigal by Morley than it is to sing a song by Byrd , partly because singers respond more intuitively and quickly to Morley 's text-illustrative music than to Byrd 's learned ( but still rhetorical ) polyphonic word-setting , partly because a Morley text will often be a chain of discrete moments where a Byrd text is more complex in syntax and in the connection of its ideas . |
| 15 | For example , even taking interest into account , it is nearly always cheaper to borrow , to buy an annual season ticket than it is to pay daily . |
| 16 | It is far more painful and exhausting to suppress our emotions than it is to experience them . |
| 17 | If it is still more important to you to enjoy your fishing , using methods and approaches more akin to your liking , than it is to catch big fish at the cost of a great deal of enjoyment , then there are still a few waters where you can use ‘ classic ’ tactics . |
| 18 | It 's more expensive to manufacture things here in Bolivia than it is to buy contraband . |
| 19 | But it is n't easy to be envied , any more than it is to feel envy . |
| 20 | He revealed figures showing it is almost twice as expensive to house a family in bed and breakfast accommodation than it is to build a family home . |
| 21 | It is much easier to work your way through a list , particularly if you are dealing with things that may embarrass or upset you , than it is to try and create order out of a general conversation . |
| 22 | Teacher support groups are increasingly being set up to provide the opportunity for greater honesty , and it can be less threatening for people who feel isolated to join one of these than it is to make individual overtures within their own staffroom . |
| 23 | It 's easier to prevent the escape of the internal noise which you create in your own home , and which is liable to annoy your neighbours , than it is to prevent noise entering your house from outside or from next door . |
| 24 | It 's less usual to enjambe stanzas than it is to enjambe lines and it creates this continuous flow . |
| 25 | I think it would be helpful for people who smoke erm , to think about just how very powerful a drug it is , because I know there have been studies done which show that it 's actually more difficult to stay off cigarettes than it is to stay off heroine . |
| 26 | The public domain , therefore , can do more than it is to secure the active citizenship of individuals . |
| 27 | It seems more reasonable to anticipate a response to a formal written instrument , especially one which may have adverse consequences on a third State , and thus to regard lack of response as acceptance of that agreement , than it is to demand early protest to an emergent rule of customary international law . |
| 28 | It 's easier sometimes not to achieve and just to settle for family life than it is to achieve and to set your occupational sights quite high and then to have to face the terrible and fight of having both a job and children . |
| 29 | They 're very poor people , they may work in industries with hundreds and hundreds of small outlets , whether they 're workshops in people 's homes or hairdressing shops , and it 's much harder to organise that kind of person than it is to organise a factory worker in a big factory . |
| 30 | It now seems easier for Scots to get into a Great Britain senior team than it is to get into the Commonwealth Games team . |