Example sentences of "than they be in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Weight categories ensure that individuals are more closely matched than they are in team events . |
| 2 | People are more homogeneous in terms of social class , and religion , in their viewing than they are in terms of age and sex . |
| 3 | Human affairs , and especially matters involving learning , are on the whole a lot neater and easier to understand on paper than they are in reality . |
| 4 | Polo boots are three times cheaper than they are in the UK . ’ |
| 5 | Another view of modern scholars is that the New Testament Devil and his demons became augmented by the fathers of the patristic era and were made even more devilish , as it were , than they are in the Bible . |
| 6 | With a number of solids the interatomic forces are stronger and stiffer than they are in common liquids and so the surface energies are higher , often ten or twenty times the values for ordinary liquids . |
| 7 | The causes of weakness in adhesion are rather less understood at present than they are in cohesion but no doubt they are generally similar in character . |
| 8 | Perhaps the most important point to make is that , as part of affirmatively assessing elders , we should never assume that unconscious processes are less important or less worthy of exploration than they are in other people . |
| 9 | The heating is a bonus , resulting from the release of latent heat as the moisture vapour condenses to liquid water within the machine , but dehumidifiers are not really heating devices — they are more effective in warm homes with high humidity levels than they are in buildings where low temperatures are the main problem . |
| 10 | For although practices , and features of practices , are said to be mutually dependent , it is nevertheless possible that one may dominate the others in the sense that it is more efficacious in determining the character of other practices than they are in determining it . |
| 11 | Although manpower costs in petrochemicals are extremely low by comparative business standards , averaging around six to seven per cent , nevertheless in that area costs of effectively trained manpower are much higher in the Middle East than they are in Europe . |
| 12 | Neglect or minimization of a task is at best only a short-term expedient , and the housewife 's awareness of this fact causes time pressures to be felt possibly more acutely than they are in other kinds of work . |
| 13 | But such trends are clearer in the minds of men than they are in the rocks . |
| 14 | The WGMS could , in short , be adopted in the United Kingdom in full confidence that insignificant hiccups in the form of excess seats would be no more frequent than they are in the Federal Republic , where it has been tested in eleven general elections and not found wanting . |
| 15 | The traveller who reaches this point is rewarded by an insight into why our powers of measurement in quantum mechanics are more restricted than they are in classical mechanics ; why we can not , for instance , measure both the position of an electron and its momentum . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | In fact , college teachers are probably more interested in the reasoning by which you reach your answer than they are in the substantive answer itself . |
| 18 | Why are people less prepared to vote in local government elections than they are in general elections ? |
| 19 | cos they er they 're bound to be cheaper than they are in the shops . |
| 20 | Opportunities for specialists in an information-based business organization should be more plentiful than they are in an orchestra or hospital , let alone in the Indian civil service . |
| 21 | One of the great mysteries of our modern free-trading world is why consumer electronics products are so much more expensive in Britain ( and Europe generally ) than they are in the United States . |
| 22 | Social class inequalities in housing will therefore be greater than they are in health or education . |
| 23 | Predicated and identifying themes must be handled carefully in translation because they are far more marked in languages with relatively free word order , such as German , than they are in English . |
| 24 | Predicated themes are more marked in Brazilian Portuguese than they are in English : |
| 25 | Second , in that vast and diverse country political choices are much more dictated by local interests than they are in Britain . |
| 26 | The percentage of rivers in in the U K in the classes one and two , which are good and satisfactory , are far higher , in the U K , than they are in Europe . |
| 27 | Sex differences are also less in actuality than they are in teachers ' perceptions , as self-report schedules demonstrate , and clearly depend on who is defining what as ‘ deviant , ’ ‘ disruptive ’ or ‘ disaffected ’ — that is , what and whose rules of ‘ normality ’ are being infringed . |
| 28 | The horns play the root of the chord and are placed considerably higher than they are in Ex. 9 for greater resonance and strength . |
| 29 | But I mean d do you think the people are more unfriendly around here than they are in other parts of the town ? |
| 30 | But imagine that transactions costs are greater in the forward market ( and there is some evidence to suggest that they might be ) than they are in the spot market . |