Example sentences of "[to-vb] in the [noun] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was therefore recognised that there might well be some dementia sufferers who could not be helped by this project because their needs would be so great that they would be more expensive to meet in the community than in an institution . |
| 2 | Nay-sayers are more likely to surface in the middle than at the beginning because now the project is more of a threat , more a challenge to their own perceived status . |
| 3 | Because information technology is new and exciting , its proponents naturally exaggerate the cultural role it will take But do they really believe that we shall have nothing better to do in the future than to sit in front of a screen for hours , plugging into Which ? , mail-order catalogues , and the index to Chemical Abstracts ? |
| 4 | Mind you , it 's not sunbathing or badminton I have in mind but planting — what more satisfying thing is there to do in the garden than to plant bulbs , or a tree or shrub to give you joy for years to come . |
| 5 | Bridbury also suggests , from the admissions to the freedom of the boroughs , that the ranks of the citizens were being widened , and that even at a time when rural conditions provided more incentive for men to remain in the country than at an earlier date the towns were still able to attract them ( 61 , pp.62–4 ( Tables , 65–9 ) ) . |
| 6 | He cited the following reasons for the phenomenon : the absence of an experienced environmental police in the east , the fact that it is around ten times cheaper to dump in the east than in the west , and the overall regulatory disorganization in the eastern states , which have yet to pass environmental legislation similar to that obtaining in the west . |
| 7 | Although it has been traditionally assumed that Labour Governments are more susceptible to defeat in the Lords than Conservative administrations , Brazier concludes that the Lords have been surprisingly even-handed in dealing out legislative defeats . |
| 8 | Collecting bias seems to be greater for molars than for incisors , not surprising when it is considered that incisors are easier to locate in the pellets than are molars , and so an excess of incisors may be combined with a deficit of molars where there is collecting bias . |
| 9 | But if it had better-information about what was likely to happen in the economy than the private sector , the government could take such measures . |
| 10 | ‘ The general expectation in the MoD at that time was that you would get another round of discussions with Argentina at a political level , and that the real difficulties were more likely to occur in the summer than at the time they did . ’ |