Example sentences of "than has " in BNC.
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| 1 | Angus Stirling , the National Trust 's director-general , said : ‘ Far more of Uppark and its contents survive than has been lost . |
| 2 | Although Eurotunnel 's attitude to Trans Manche Link , the contractors ' consortium , was more conciliatory yesterday than has been the case , there are still important differences to be settled . |
| 3 | Government , employers and educators alike are now convinced that higher education should be expanded radically during the next decade , to include perhaps twice as high a proportion of school leavers and others than has traditionally been the case in the UK . |
| 4 | On the whole , therefore , researching the RUC has been more difficult than has been the case in most other studies in the sociology of policing ( for an exception see Punch 1989 ) , precisely because of the sensitivity of the topic in its social context . |
| 5 | It came about through a negative way more extreme than has yet been suggested . |
| 6 | One is that the cradle to grave provision of welfare , implicit in the Beveridge proposals , has proved to be too expensive and that the demand for welfare has grown faster than has the national income to pay for adequate comprehensive services and benefits . |
| 7 | Female social participation may have been more widespread than has been realized . |
| 8 | But it is clear that if , as we have said , death from suicide is relatively common in Britain and most funeral services take place within the Christian context , then it would seem that the church needs to look at this whole subject again with a great deal more openness than has been possible up to now . |
| 9 | The shop stocked un-Irish books also , and even the smallest volume was treated and presented with greater care than has ever been known in the bookworm paradises of Charing Cross Road or Hay-on-Wye . |
| 10 | If , however , we wish to prove the existence of ‘ the back of ’ something using quite different criteria of testimony and disallowing all those activities which gave rise to the concept in the first place , then perhaps our proof of the uncertainty of the existence of backs will be less powerful than has been imagined . |
| 11 | With government borrowing having soared to £28 billion this year , and underlying concern that public finances are in a worse state than has been acknowledged , Mr Portillo 's priority will be to curb further increases in public expenditure . |
| 12 | Such a conception allows for a greater fluidity between the two modes than has hitherto been found acceptable . |
| 13 | Roberts , using statistics for 1960 , 1970 and projected for 1980 , shows how in six of the largest Latin American countries , Argentina , Brazil , Chile , Mexico , Peru and Venezuela , the urban population has grown at a faster rate than has the total population ( Roberts 1978 ) . |
| 14 | But when I asked him how much of the land of the state of Israel might potentially have two claimants — an Arab and a Jew holding respectively a British mandate and an Israeli deed to the same property — he said he figure was accurate — and it should be remembered that over half of Israel in 1948 consisted of the Negev desert — then it suggested that Arabs owned a far greater proportion of that part of Palestine which became Israel than has previously been imagined . |
| 15 | But in fact the experimental results turn out to allow of more ambiguity than has commonly been supposed . |
| 16 | This is just one more sign that the courts may be balancing the scales of justice a little more fairly than has been the case over the past decade or so . |
| 17 | As we shall see in subsequent chapters , the approach they have taken to fundamental freedoms has on a number of important occasions been radically different and altogether more liberal than has been the case here . |
| 18 | Even where the buildings are described in the Commission 's published series , An Inventory of Historical Monuments in the County of … , the researcher should write to ( or , better still , visit ) the Commission 's London offices for more information than has appeared on the printed pages . |
| 19 | Indeed , it could be argued that the collective influence of the processes discussed in this chapter have made a greater impact on the cities and those living within them than has inner-city policy . |
| 20 | Secondly , frequent testing and the enormous pressure of parents and pupils to succeed will almost certainly have the effect of focusing attention on assessment targets , at the expense of other activities to an even greater degree than has occurred in the past . |
| 21 | More has been said than has actually happened . |
| 22 | The degree of damage by chipping and splitting of the teeth is already greater , of its kind , than has been observed in the predator assemblages ( see Chapter 3 ) , and since it is combined with absence of breakage of the skulls and mandibles it would seem to present a different pattern of modification from the pellet assemblages . |
| 23 | This splitting has occurred on 24.4 per cent of the teeth , which is a higher percentage than has been found in any of the pellet assemblages ( Table 3.10 ) . |
| 24 | Partly as a result of this , it has been found that digestion in falcons causes greater modification of bones than has been found in owl prey assemblages ( Yalden & Yalden , 1985 ) . |
| 25 | One minute of observation away from the Earth 's atmosphere revealed more than has ever been known before about that well-studied galaxy 's infrared emission . |
| 26 | This relatively simple wetland agriculture , Bloom suggests , would have required far fewer labourers than has been envisaged for raised field cultivation in Maya areas . |
| 27 | But it does imply the need for caution in making extreme claims about the distances of quasars based solely on redshift evidence , and it does suggest that Arp 's evidence concerning other , similar associations should be taken more seriously than has often been the case . |
| 28 | The result is a forecast of much more rapid and pronounced warming of the globe than has previously been thought likely , setting in by the end of the present decade . |
| 29 | Yet this childhood query , already asked and not answered millions of times , is of profound importance , for it is that very question , and its non-answer , or obviously insincere answer that , quite probably , has undermined child respect for adults to a greater degree than has all other causes put together . |
| 30 | But the authorities of the cat world do seem to have their eyes firmly fixed on possible dangers , and we can hope for a much greater restraint than has existed in the case of a number of breeds of dog . |