Example sentences of "than [be] usually [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was significant that Mr Lamont had looked further ahead than is usually the case on Budget day , said Professor Sherer . |
| 2 | The opportunities for close , long-term relationships are greater than is usually the case in a large , metropolitan , residential area . |
| 3 | The relatively detailed information in the annals and in the correspondence of Alcuin for this phase of the reign of Eardwulf enables us to perceive more clearly than is usually the case the way in which an attempt to challenge a Northumbrian king could embrace both internal dissent and external interference . |
| 4 | This programme will seek to develop a framework for economic modelling within which links between the decisions of individual agents ( firms , households , unions ) and the behaviour of the economy at an aggregate level are more clearly established than is usually the case . |
| 5 | He had a hearty manner and his heavy spectacles suggested an even greater myopia than is usually the case with conference chairpersons . |
| 6 | You 'll be mentally flexible today , rather more than is usually the case . |
| 7 | Even colonies which did not have direct religious origins would have religious commitments ; Virginia had been launched in as secular-minded a mood as almost any colony but it remained firmly attached to the forms of the Church of England , though the lack of regular episcopal organization made its clergy more responsive to the wishes of their congregations than was usually the case in England . |