Example sentences of "[adj] than [be] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hand-loom weaver on the eve of his long decline was much more likely to have been a Methodist than was the mule spinner of the new generation proletariat . |
| 2 | It seems that being married is less stressful and more exciting than being a bachelor but both think doing something tough and physical such as white water canoeing would ease stresses and strains . |
| 3 | These courses would be much more cross-disciplinary than is the case now . |
| 4 | Consequently , it may be used more easily and fine tuning in earlier stages of design is much easier than is the case with an optimization technique . |
| 5 | " in a school such as ours where the teaching has distinct literary and mathematical pretensions and in which school hours are shorter than is the case in some parts of the country there is not , under present conditions , sufficient time for the proper development of both subjects : and experts are nearly unanimous in the opinion that Physics affords a better intellectual training than Chemistry , and the expense and risk in maintaining a Physical Laboratory is also distinctly less . " |
| 6 | This sense of ‘ apartness ’ reinforces the internal reliance of the mining community — or ‘ cohesive mass segregation ’ ( p. 69 ) — and also promotes a greater level of strike-proneness than is the case in more heterogeneous industrial settlements . |
| 7 | The floating exchange rate regime has thus become less managed from about 1980 than was the practice in its early days , with the US authorities in particular more reluctant to engage in foreign currency transactions . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | There are also known differences in the trappability of mammal species , with some species being readily caught in traps and others not , so that the comparative samples obtained by trapping are no more representative than are the predator assemblages . ) |
| 10 | The shift from evidence of accuracy in performance under certain conditions to general conclusions about internalization of competence is in principle no more justified than is the extrapolation from pigeon pecking to human verbal behaviour . |
| 11 | ( In fact , it might be said that the use of torture in the ‘ civilised ’ world today is more widespread and certainly much more sophisticated than was the case in the ‘ barbaric ’ Middle Ages . ) |
| 12 | This has the advantage that , as the level of prices alters over time , the variance of the logarithm of the price relatives is more likely to be stationary than is the variance of the alternatives . |
| 13 | For the same reason pick-up after treatment and time of return home may also be better than is the case with the larger non-emergency ambulance . |
| 14 | It 's no more astonishing than was the growth of industrialisation in the first place . |
| 15 | These are less affected by stretching and restretching than are the animal skins formerly used . |
| 16 | People are seen as being more selfish , aggressive , and less tolerant and happy than was the case a decade ago . |
| 17 | It is not , any more than is the case in natural science . |
| 18 | The lessee is not a surety for the assignee , any more than is the assignee the agent of the lessee . |
| 19 | But more than being a mainstay of fashion , the T-shirt is an enduring medium of advertising . |
| 20 | This is worse than being a slave . |
| 21 | There is little worse than being a captain of a Yorkshire side not doing well . |
| 22 | But I expect it 's no worse than being a punk . |
| 23 | God knows the temptations there are far worse than being an actor . |
| 24 | The centralised technical control , exercised by the chief engineer 's department at headquarters , meant that the men who had accepted these posts were to find their room for independent and creative action significantly more constrained than was the case for their colleagues in the Area Boards . |
| 25 | The question to be asked then is , given that women are unlike Jesus of Nazareth in the form of their humanity , may it not be said that a woman baptized into Christ is not differently related than is a man to Jesus as the Christ ? |
| 26 | In an article written in support of the ordination of women to the priesthood in the Episcopal Church in the United States , Richard Norris , whose scholarship I have just mentioned , argues that the tenets of patristic Christology are such that it can not be said that a baptized woman is differently related than is a man to Jesus as the Christ . |
| 27 | Temporary workers are rather more likely to be self-employed than is the generality of the labour force . |
| 28 | Indeed , entry into the party-state bureaucracy may be more open than is the case with other elites ( Hirszowicz 1980 , p. 108 ) . |
| 29 | The warranties that are obtained from the vendors are much less wide ranging than is the case in an " arms'-length " transaction . |
| 30 | Thus a higher proportion of cabinet ministers are middle class and university-educated than is the case with backbench MPs . |