Example sentences of "than [pron] was [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is no more danger of a stand-up comedian entering the House of Lords ( some may argue that there are already plenty there ) than there was of the British Airways boss ( Lord ) John King being fobbed off with a mere MBE . |
| 2 | First , as a result of the negotiations by my right hon. Friend the Chancellor , there is considerably more flexibility now than there was with the 3 per cent . |
| 3 | than there was in the first place . |
| 4 | There 's a much greater sense here of tolerating plurality and diversity than there was in the English departments , although obviously there is conflict amongst staff about the extent to which such plurality can be tolerated . |
| 5 | While he does expect recovery to come , he assumes life will be much gentler in the '90s than it was during the '80s . |
| 6 | If the polys are indeed achieving the parity of esteem they have long sought , their graduates ' relative position during the next recession should prove better than it was during the early 1980s . |
| 7 | I believe that , as we come out of the recession , we shall find that British industry is much stronger than it was during the same period at the beginning of the 1980s , and that it will prosper mightily during the remainder of the 1990s . |
| 8 | In spite of the recent very regrettable rises in unemployment , in his constituency and in Sheffield as a whole unemployment remains a quarter lower than it was at the last election and a third below its peak in 1986 . |
| 9 | This has also led to the massive wave of international intercontinental migration , the largest since the decades before 1914 , which has , incidentally , both aggravated inter-communal frictions , notably in the form of racism , and made a world of national territories , ‘ belonging ’ exclusively to the natives who keep strangers in their place , even less of a realistic option for the 21st century than it was for the 20th . |
| 10 | However , this was far less significant for physics students than it was for the physical science and materials students . |
| 11 | It is clear that local government promises to be an even worse headache for the new government than it was for the old . |
| 12 | But I saw that time was much more like the growth of Mary 's reputation , devious and ambiguous , than it was like the straight line , moving remorselessly forward , which Western thought has forced it to prefigure . |
| 13 | The improvement in medical knowledge and other changes of recent times made marriage a more stable institution for a time than it was in the Middle Ages . |
| 14 | Recreational drug use is bigger today than it was in the Sixties , but enthusiasm for Ecstasy may be starting to wane . |
| 15 | The problem of servicing debt is already , in practice , less severe than it was in the early and mid 1980s . |
| 16 | That is not just because inflation is raging less fiercely than it was in the early 1980s , but also because of improvements in the way the labour market works . |
| 17 | Obviously , you are expected to ‘ use ’ them somehow , but what you are supposed to do with them is rather less obvious than it was in the Hardy Hall case . |
| 18 | It seems to have become more stridently partisan in the 1970s and 1980s than it was in the 1960s . |
| 19 | Student influence seems , by contrast , rather weaker than it was in the 1960s and 1970s , when more radical questions were asked , leading to the inclusion in some cases of courses to do with the social and environmental impacts of professional activities . |
| 20 | This is nearer realization than it was in the late 1980s if only because the practice and principles of GRIDS , together with further movements towards total self-evaluation , have removed some of each party 's defensiveness . |
| 21 | Also , thanks to deposit insurance , the threat of bank runs is far less now than it was in the 1930s ; the FDIC ( which insures deposits up to $100,000 ) was created expressly to prevent them . |
| 22 | The relevance of this goal is no less than it was in the 1930s and 1940s . |
| 23 | This is hardly less true in the 1980s than it was in the 1930s . |
| 24 | Academic analysts are unanimous that the British press is highly partisan , even if it is less so than it was in the last century and even though proprietors are strongly profit-motivated . |
| 25 | If you think about it , if you have a fleeting glimpse of somebody , you then identify that person at the I D parade , you will , the quality of your identification is now higher than it was in the fleeting glimpse . |
| 26 | In consequence , boxing in the 1990s is even more confused than it was in the 1980s when only two titles were unified : the heavyweight title by Mike Tyson ( and his successors James Douglas , Evander Holyfield and Riddick Bowe ) ; and the middleweight title by Marvin Hagler . |
| 27 | Erm the parts of the country where things have been a bit flat seem to be the north and the south west and both of those are regions in which export orders received fell in the previous two surveys so that seems to be consistent although in the north they seem to have picked up somewhat in this survey erm and optimism is also erm er stronger in this survey than it was in the previous one . |
| 28 | ( c ) Calculate , in terms of days , whether or not Grieg was more ( or less ) efficient in collecting his debts during the year ended 31 March Year 14 than he was during the previous year . |