Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun sg] than it " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It is more difficult to trace the spatial patterning of central-government spending than it is at a local level . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | At present , it seems , acute hepatitis B in homosexual men is a more effective marker of unsafe sex than it should be . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Indeed , one could say that the latter without the former is more use to the game of Trivial Pursuit than it is to science . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It should also be pointed out that Donoghue v. Stevenson established a principle of wider application than it may so far have appeared . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It must have the additional power of a moral code based on a religion , and there is no part of human affairs in which this applies with more force than it does in the matter of child rearing . |
| 16 | Bellburn Lane is a residential cul de sac which already suffers with more traffic than it can safely handle . |
| 17 | The government has met with less success than it had anticipated in its policy of compelling local authorities to put services out to competitive tender . |
| 18 | The Heart of Wales Line is now under greater threat than it has been for many years , because of financial pressures from British Rail in general and Regional Railways in particular . |
| 19 | Not only had he mastered the lines , he had also delivered the speech with greater power than it had ever received , either by him in rehearsal , or by Alex in performance . |
| 20 | This is only true if the image is projected for less time than it takes for the eye to move . |
| 21 | This is only true if the image is projected for less time than it takes for the eye to move . |
| 22 | Under this Government , the income of retirement pensioners as a whole has increased more in each year than it did throughout the Labour Government 's administration . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | That such conclusions have nevertheless been drawn tells us more about the strength of the anti-democratic tradition in European thought than it does about Athenian democracy . |
| 25 | By reducing the output of chemicals society would save more in social cost than it would lose in social benefit . |
| 26 | 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 . ’ |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Hongkong Bank is inheriting a bank in better shape than it has been in for more than a decade . |
| 30 | Ironically , during the war years , the pitch was in better condition than it had ever been , as it was given over to the growing of carrots and potatoes . |