Example sentences of "than [pers pn] is [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the major problem is that the sites which we have at the present moment are not controlled , and if we could get proper sites , properly managed , I think you would find that the whole erm picture of a gipsy site in an area would be much better received by the public than it is at the present . |
| 2 | Further , discomfort is much more prevalent at the base of an organization than it is at the top , both physically and psychologically . |
| 3 | And irrationality is , 1 would argue , more firmly at the centre of Western , Christian , culture than it is at the centre of Islam . |
| 4 | Barbed wire might well become more common than it is at the moment . |
| 5 | The result is bound to be that it will be far harder to acquire convictions in these cases than it is at the moment . |
| 6 | It should complement the Bishop 's Park which by then , it is hoped , will be kept in a better state than it is at the moment . |
| 7 | What this all adds up to is that the coding of give/take relationship in fields quite remote from private domestic affairs is much closer to what the members of modern capitalist societies assume to be appropriate only for the restricted context of the domestic household than it is to the coding of power relationships within the wider context of the market economy which I was discussing earlier . |
| 8 | It is easier for us to do this than it is for the English or Americans . ’ |
| 9 | People often say that a certain noise gets louder at night , even though its measured level does not alter ; this is because , at night , the level of the background noise is generally lower than it is during the day , During the recession , people near once noisy factories started to appreciate the quiet . |
| 10 | The case for fair voting for all elections , to bring together communities and encourage cooperation , and for a Bill of Rights to protect individuals , is even more pressing in Northern Ireland than it is in the rest of the UK . |
| 11 | Many people living today , in the advanced industrial societies at least , can not imagine that anything in the past was better than it is in the present . |
| 12 | The concentration of salts in the blood of fresh-water fish is much higher than it is in the water surrounding them . |
| 13 | This can be extremely hazardous and it is dangerous to assume that a rug will necessarily be cheaper in the country of origin than it is in the West ; rugs on sale in the bazaars in Turkey , for example , are often just as expensive , if not more so , than they are in London or New York . |
| 14 | If exchange relationships were based totally on unscrupulous self-interested behaviour , the resulting distrust and the cost of legal action to enforce contracts would render market coordination much less efficient than it is in the presence of trust built up through networks and embedded social expectations that contracts will be honoured . |
| 15 | As will be considered further in Chapter 6 , the large value of institutional holdings , the comparatively small number of institutions , and their mutual accessibility , make joint action more feasible than it is in the case of individual shareholders . |
| 16 | The picture in relation to class inequalities in the geographical distribution of hospitals is even less encouraging than it is in the case of general practitioners . |
| 17 | In structuralist theory this absence is far more radical than it is in the case of the New Critics . |
| 18 | The East Kilbride centre , which concentrates on wind power , will be important in the United Kingdom 's development of new technologies in highly exposed areas where the meterage per second of wind speed , especially in Scotland , is considerably higher than it is in the east and south-east of England . |
| 19 | Also , the concept of limited liability in the UK is much more protective of proprietors than it is in the Code Napoleon countries , where , for example , net worth deficiencies have to be made good immediately , otherwise the company must cease trading . |
| 20 | The detailed differences between the CO and CS maps imply that the pressure of interstellar gas in the bulge is much higher than it is in the disk . |
| 21 | Although there is little specific mention of the lifeboat service the sea is never any further from the book than it is from the history of the town of Blackpool . |
| 22 | ‘ And probably the level of civilisation is no greater than it is within the Khanate — otherwise the embassy would be coming the other way . ’ |