Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun] than it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Remarkably , the subsequent behaviour leaves the pulsar rotating more slowly after 50 days than it would have done in the absence of the glitch . |
| 2 | The restoration caused no trouble to the East India Company , which was quite soon able to turn itself into a distinctly royalist body and was given a rather wider range of political powers than it had possessed before . |
| 3 | It is now clear that the presence of the wall causes the fluid viscosity to enter in a much more important way into the dynamics of turbulent motion than it does for free flows . |
| 4 | It is more difficult to trace the spatial patterning of central-government spending than it is at a local level . |
| 5 | It is surely no more the function of the judiciary to tell the GLC where the public interest lay in its spending of public money than it is the function of the judiciary to make similar judgments about spending by the Departments of the central government . |
| 6 | The question is how this expansion can be paid for , given that the new Secretary of State has said quite candidly that his present view is that higher education can not expect a higher share of public spending than it currently receives . |
| 7 | It is enough to say that , especially after 1529 , Parliament became a more dynamic and a still less dispensable part of English government than it had been before . |
| 8 | At present , it seems , acute hepatitis B in homosexual men is a more effective marker of unsafe sex than it should be . |
| 9 | In the wake of the 1848 revolutions St Petersburg appeared to have acquired a larger say in the affairs of central Europe than it had possessed for a generation . |
| 10 | , I mean it 's a lot easier to think of these things than it is for the other one , er , you would say , that was actually lazy bastard , but we did n't want to offend anybody , er , useless git , |
| 11 | Faced with a deepening penal crisis on the one hand , and continuing intransigence from sentencers on the other , there was growing pressure throughout the 1990s from a broad constituency — comprising not only penal reformers but also senior civil servants , prison visitors , and prison governors — for the government to accept the need for more effective techniques for the control of sentencing discretion than it had been prepared to concede in the past . |
| 12 | The educational debate during the years immediately following the war concentrated more upon the nature of secondary schooling than it did upon the primary stage . |
| 13 | While the price of doing business in Russia is high — the cost of office space in Moscow , for example , is rocketing — Hall reckons Sun kit will cost less in the Commonwealth of Independent States than it does in the rest of Europe , where customers are used to paying a premium for computer products . |
| 14 | Indeed , one could say that the latter without the former is more use to the game of Trivial Pursuit than it is to science . |
| 15 | Indeed his sanguine response to his discovery lent colour to the story when it reached the evening news , and assured it of greater coverage than it might otherwise have merited , that focus in turn bringing a penetrating eye to bear on the identity of the dead man . |
| 16 | We must also remember that the Bible has more to say about giving to meet the needs of other individuals than it does about supporting Christian institutions . |
| 17 | It should also be pointed out that Donoghue v. Stevenson established a principle of wider application than it may so far have appeared . |
| 18 | So far , it seems to the Palestinians that the US listens less to the ‘ moderates ’ of both sides than it does to Israel 's still very powerful , if increasingly defensive , champions , the Jewish lobby , its knee-jerk supporters in the Congress and the media , who are still ready to parrot the Israeli ‘ extremist ’ line that Arafat is , indeed , still Arafat . |
| 19 | The first is in part provided by banks in the form of overdrafts , that is , the company may , by agreement , write cheques for larger sums than it has on deposit . |
| 20 | The first is in part provided by banks in the form of overdrafts , that is , the company may , by agreement , write cheques for larger sums than it has on deposit . |
| 21 | ‘ As a result it is better protected against cold winds than it used to be . ’ |
| 22 | This sounds like more work than it was , because we integrated these introductory modules with each other , and with general SVQ modules , which made it easier . |
| 23 | Cocom is more relaxed about Eastern Europe than it is about Russia . |
| 24 | The USSR devoted more energy and resources to the development of diplomatic and trading ties with these nations than it did to establishing effective operational links with the Communist parties . |
| 25 | The only way in which to reverse this situation and become slim again is to supply the body with fewer calories than it needs for its daily energy requirements , so that it has to draw on the emergency store of calories in its own fat . |
| 26 | Shedding surplus weight depends on providing your body with fewer calories than it needs to keep going . |
| 27 | ‘ We 're always looking for people of the right calibre , although today , with the downturn in levels of activity , it 's harder to get into corporate finance than it was five years ago , ’ he warns . |
| 28 | I only comment that , at a time when Community law is becoming increasingly important , it would be strange if the right of the citizen to recover overpaid charges were to be more restricted under domestic law than it is under European law . |
| 29 | Why tolerate the misery of unemployed people when , if given jobs on works of improvement , it would make a Britain with better services than it has at present ? |
| 30 | The Labour Party entered the election campaign with more advantages than it realised . |