Example sentences of "than [was/were] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | What Pound did to English literature and British sensibilities does n't seem forgivable , and I really think that the English were more offended by Pound 's political obsessions than were the countrymen he ostensibly betrayed . |
| 2 | They were more in tune with the thinking of a managerial government than were the traditional scholarly citadels of unproductive , useless learning . |
| 3 | Leaked accounts say it finds that army units were far more deeply involved in the repression than were the navy , the air force or the police , whose chiefs have all taken command since the coup of 1973 . |
| 4 | These Party leaders were of course closer to the real Hitler than were the mass of ordinary Germans or even the mass of Party activists . |
| 5 | The PLO leadership seemed readier to compromise and accommodate Israel , Jordan , the United States and the Arab League than were the people under occupation . |
| 6 | The Chinese were more interested in the practical measurement of time than were the inhabitants of India . |
| 7 | They were far more interested in time than were the Greeks , but the fact that every moment was regarded as the manifestation of supernatural forces meant that the concept of time which dominated Maya thought was purely astrological . |
| 8 | I do not believe for a moment that , with unemployment heading towards three million , the benefits would be significantly dissipated by higher inflation , any more than were the benefits of depreciation in the early 1980s . |
| 9 | In general , professional/ managerial and skilled manual grades were less often ‘ anti-credit ’ than were the lower grade manual and non-manual groups ; young people were less often anti than old . |
| 10 | Society in India and the Far East generally was historically far more formal and organized than were the tribal systems of Africa . |
| 11 | Other freeholders , however , were less career-motivated , and often showed considerable loyalty to a particular political interest over an extended period of time , and as a generalisation it might be suggested that they were less likely to jump from one interest to another than were the lawyers with judicial preferment in mind . |
| 12 | Certainly , Meriden was much more nearly an authentic industrial co-operative than were the other two ; and , as certainly , realised the potential in morale , in practical commitment to the objectives of the enterprise , which is the special feature of a co-operative . |
| 13 | " Radius ' was more often confused with other circle-related terms than were the other words . |
| 14 | The elderly , who have already lived most of their politically active lives , were more favourably inclined to redistribution than were the younger people in the sample . |
| 15 | Those who became unemployed as a result of the ending of a temporary job , but who did not become long-term unemployed , were more likely to have experienced three or more spells of joblessness and to have had three or more jobs in the 20 months following initial registration than were the sample as a whole . |
| 16 | Until the Ottoman empire began to decline in the late eighteenth century , Christian subjects in the Balkans were probably treated no worse than were the peasants of central Europe by their Christian feudal overlords . |
| 17 | The potential growth areas mentioned by Herb Nahapiet of repairs , maintenance and refurbishment , and partnering and joint ventures , are much more deeply embedded in the lives of people than were the products of the socially aggressive development style of the last quarter of a century . |
| 18 | What sort of a society have we become , she wondered miserably , that our homes are no more secure form drug-crazed humans than were the dwellings of Stone Age tribes from marauding beasts ? |
| 19 | Further , his total avoidance of arianism is held to have made him more acceptable to the catholic Gallo-Romans , than were the other kings of his generation , and to have helped ensure that the Franks were more successful than either the Burgundians or the Visigoths . |
| 20 | It is true that the British were more disposed to live with the reality of the new China than were the Americans , and to the annoyance of Washington they speedily recognized the new regime in Beijing . |
| 21 | The former clinic patients with anti-social behaviour were considerably more often diagnosed by the research psychiatrists as having a sociopathic personality than were the comparison group . |
| 22 | What retrenchment we experienced was from below , which illustrates that working daily with the field-worker was a source of greater sensitivity to ordinary policemen and women than was the idea of research to senior officers . |
| 23 | People are seen as being more selfish , aggressive , and less tolerant and happy than was the case a decade ago . |
| 24 | Even to speak of those by-now famous evenings as a coterie is to imply that they were both more formal and more enclosed than was the case . |
| 25 | When DUP spokesmen give their view of the conflict , which is that the rioters were clearly in the wrong but their actions were understandable , and that the fault really lay with the leadership of the RUC , the loyalists seem to hear only those parts which marked the DUP as being more supportive of their acts than was the OUP . |
| 26 | And more people are now ineligible for legal aid than was the case a decade ago . |
| 27 | The greater likelihood of their being admitted to an institution in Ipswich may well reflect a greater availability of beds or of places in residential accommodation , as well as a different attitude towards home care on the part of the psychogeriatrician ( researchers ' fieldnotes indicated that he was more preoccupied by the notion of patients being ‘ at risk ’ in the community than was the case with the Newham psychogeriatrician ) . |
| 28 | A study of gender and enrolment patterns since 1980 reveals that , although there has been an enormous increase in the absolute numbers of both girls and boys attending school , at secondary level the drop-out rate for girls is not only high , but in proportional terms fewer girls reach fourth to sixth form ( 'O' and ‘ A ’ level grades ) than was the case in the 1970s , when for the most part only privileged whites reached these levels . |
| 29 | Indeed , Goldsmith argues that on finance , ‘ the Scottish Office has been the pioneer for the Imperial core , seeking and using greater controls over local government ’ than was the case in England ( 1986 , p. 168 ) . |
| 30 | It is likely that among the rural population this loss was more widely distributed than was the gain . |