Example sentences of "than [is] generally [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Far more settlements had access to areas of common and waste than is generally acknowledged in books about the English landscape ( Fig. 82 ) . |
| 2 | Further evidence against this is the finding that the occurrence of choledocholithiasis was much higher in patients in group A who underwent cholecystectomy ( 16/23 : 70% ) than is generally seen in association with cholecystolithiasis . |
| 3 | Similarly , the robustness of female Australian aboriginal bones may be far greater than is generally found in male pygmies . |
| 4 | From a static point of view , the term ‘ divergent-dialect situation ’ can be understood in two senses : first , Belfast dialect ( for example ) is observed to be divergent from other dialects and , particularly , from ‘ mainstream ’ norms of language , such as RP and standard English ; second , the dialect exhibits a great deal of internal variation — much greater than is generally reported for these better-known varieties ( this is approximately the phenomenon that Le Page ( 1975 ) calls diffuseness ) . |
| 5 | Spiritual congress of this kind is , in fact , found all over the world and throughout history — as the biographies of famous Christian and other mystics confirm and occurs more often than is generally supposed in our own contemporary Western world . |