Example sentences of "in [adj] [noun] than it [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This supposition conflicts with the conclusions of students of the geomorphology of the lands , who usually regard sea level as being much higher in that period than it is now . |
| 2 | it is true that it is currently harder for me to get any kind of sympathetic press coverage in this country than it is anywhere else in Europe . ’ |
| 3 | The Minister will probably claim that the decline in the number of smokers is greater in this country than it is in Italy and in France . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The problem is worse in some areas than it is in others but , as Karan and Iijima ( 1985 ) point out , soil erosion is particularly acute where steep slopes are cultivated without terracing . |
| 6 | higher in real terms than it was in 1979 . |
| 7 | higher in real terms than it was in 1979-80 . |
| 8 | The result is bound to be that it will be far harder to acquire convictions in these cases than it is at the moment . |
| 9 | I would say that it is better in many respects than it was ’ . |
| 10 | On a time-scale which may not coincide exactly with our present scientific calculations of geological time , they say that the cycle commences with a period of 1.7 million years when the power of the Life Force is immeasurably stronger and more evident in physical affairs than it is today . |
| 11 | But other schemes are less contentious : partly because the extra money gained from child benefits and other payments which favour lone parents is less than the extra money lone parents gain when the whole household is living on supplementary benefit ; and partly because the public tolerates laxer or more generous administration in other schemes than it is prepared to tolerate when it comes to means-tested benefits for the poor . |
| 12 | In many respects , therefore , it would appear that the family is a much less important institution in modern society than it was in the past . |
| 13 | Moreover , the relative value of gold to silver was much lower in western Europe than it was further east , in the Byzantine and Islamic worlds , so gold tended to leave western Europe and silver became the principal medium for coinage . |
| 14 | The crime rate is higher in urban areas than it is in rural areas , and the larger the urban area the greater the crime rate is . |