Example sentences of "than they are [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tests have since shown that when the weak-tabby European and African wild cats are crossed with one another , the hybrid kittens develop coat patterns which are much closer to the tabby patterns of modern domestic cats than they are to the markings of either of their parents . |
| 2 | They are thus willing to pay several times more for the wealthy readers than they are for the less wealthy or poor . |
| 3 | Von Tunzelmann , remarking that prices had the greater influence on real wage trends over this period , finds that the indices available are much closer to each other than they are for the periods on either side . |
| 4 | The suspension settings are stiffer than they are on the Tercel , and with the option of Toyota 's TEMS electronic damping the spec sounds good . |
| 5 | ‘ The bookies are offering longer odds on Doncaster winning anything than they are on the first Martian landing in Newton Aycliffe . ’ |
| 6 | Even presented in outline like that , it is reasonably clear that under green regimes Europeans would , by any conventional standards , become a great deal poorer than they are at the moment . |
| 7 | Polo boots are three times cheaper than they are in the UK . ’ |
| 8 | Another view of modern scholars is that the New Testament Devil and his demons became augmented by the fathers of the patristic era and were made even more devilish , as it were , than they are in the Bible . |
| 9 | But such trends are clearer in the minds of men than they are in the rocks . |
| 10 | The WGMS could , in short , be adopted in the United Kingdom in full confidence that insignificant hiccups in the form of excess seats would be no more frequent than they are in the Federal Republic , where it has been tested in eleven general elections and not found wanting . |
| 11 | In fact , college teachers are probably more interested in the reasoning by which you reach your answer than they are in the substantive answer itself . |
| 12 | cos they er they 're bound to be cheaper than they are in the shops . |
| 13 | One of the great mysteries of our modern free-trading world is why consumer electronics products are so much more expensive in Britain ( and Europe generally ) than they are in the United States . |
| 14 | But imagine that transactions costs are greater in the forward market ( and there is some evidence to suggest that they might be ) than they are in the spot market . |
| 15 | ] More cost and outcome data do , of course , help and are highly desirable ; they are not , however , particularly more necessary in a provider market system than they are in the NHS as it is . ’ |
| 16 | Meadows notes that informal communication networks are much stronger , and more tightly integrated , in science than they are in the social sciences . |
| 17 | for the whole year so it 's a very small business the stores are much smaller than they are in the U K erm as regards your last point about margins the margins are erm at least equal to the margins that we achieve in the U K |
| 18 | Bill Walker , MP for Tayside North , said the political implications of rejecting Rosyth were ‘ far more horrendous than they are in the South West . ’ |
| 19 | Rangers have five wins and two draws from their games since the first round of the European Cup in September and respond to the fact that opposing teams are keener to attack them in that competition than they are in the Premier Division . |
| 20 | But , they 're from erm Kwik Save and they 're no dearer in this nice little jars than they are in the plastic tubs with the same cherries |
| 21 | I think they 're losing out more in the workplace than they are in the home , and I 'm only generalizing . |