Example sentences of "than it " 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 | It plays with such ideas , to a Shavian pitch of exaggeration : but it is not a novel of ideas , any more than it is a heartless game . |
| 3 | It should not persuade us that this writer has yielded or sold out , any more than it should persuade us that the boy poet Klima is in every sense the boy poet Jaromil . |
| 4 | There is a bleakness which centres on Patrick 's infidelities : but it may also be true that the rudeness and aggression with which Jenny , their sex object , is treated by various chuntering males has grown grimmer with the years than it was reckoned to be , by the author , by me and by many of his readers , at the time . |
| 5 | The report that Eliot was eventually to say of The Waste Land that ‘ to me it was only the relief of a personal and wholly insignificant grouse against life ’ is no more a licence to treat the poem as totally and unreservedly autobiographical than it is a conclusive estimate of its significance . |
| 6 | This used to be a lot easier to do than it is now : for one thing , working in the profession means that you have to belong to the actors ' union , Equity . |
| 7 | For this reason the speed of the speech may be slower than it looks , the cigarette smoking being used to punctuate it . |
| 8 | I like the feeling of doing it ‘ now ’ rather than it being a recording . |
| 9 | It is much worse these days than it was in 1966 . |
| 10 | Protestantism has a deeper significance in Ulster than it has had in Britain for over two hundred years . |
| 11 | Why this need to nudge the world into being other than it is ? he wrote . |
| 12 | One industry spokesman comments : ‘ The overall performance of computerised management systems within the hotel industry relates more to the attitudes of managers towards training and the commitment of their suppliers than it does to the ‘ superiority ’ of the individual systems . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | We had agreed at the start of this thing that pressing the Harwich local council for housing would probably be more trouble than it was worth : if one of their inspectors had decided to check my circumstances with the port authorities , the customs people would inevitably have found out about the way in which I had been using their cupboard ( and would have had a pink fit , probably ) . |
| 15 | During my blue period my life also seemed to become a lot more structured than it had been for a while . |
| 16 | London is different to me than it is to you . |
| 17 | This deficiency should n't affect the yield and tends to look more serious than it actually is . |
| 18 | Do n't forget to use a sunscreen on overcast days — clouds or a breeze can fool you into thinking the sun is weaker than it really is . |
| 19 | In this situation , research into the police could well become increasingly difficult and even less welcome than it was a decade ago . |
| 20 | His own faith did not have the answers to this , any more than it had the power to prevent the catastrophe , which exacerbated Leonard 's growing disaffection from it , or , should we say , his endless self-questioning of it . |
| 21 | At best they re-describe perception in a manner that actually generates more problems than it solves . |
| 22 | Than it dreams itself . |
| 23 | The fear , though not new , was greater than I remembered , and stronger than it need have been . |
| 24 | I am sure that had nothing to do with her withdrawal but the way she did it raised more questions than it answered . |
| 25 | No sooner had the announcement been made than it was withdrawn , pending deliberations by Lincolnshire County Council as to whether subsidisation could be considered as a way of continuance . |
| 26 | The Campaign now has more paid-up members than it did at the height of the 1970s real ale revival . |
| 27 | Over the next decade and beyond land use and access will become an even more central issue than it is now . |
| 28 | Mick was less fortunate , and when I awoke in the depressing gloom of dawn , he reported that the weather was very much better than it had been for a long time . |
| 29 | The second pitch is often climbed as a single pitch and is a lot easier than it looks from the top . |
| 30 | It is far easier to prevent behaviour problems from developing than it is to correct them once they have become entrenched habits . |