Example sentences of "in [adj] [noun] than it " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | By reducing the output of chemicals society would save more in social cost than it would lose in social benefit . |
| 3 | Empowerment on the shop floor appears to be more widespread in Japanese enterprises than it does in the bureaucratically conceived Fordist structures of Western modernity . |
| 4 | Researchers working in the 1950s perhaps could be forgiven for not recognizing the importance of ethnicity in family relations , since Britain was a more monolithic society in ethnic terms than it became subsequently . |
| 5 | higher in real terms than it was in 1979 . |
| 6 | higher in real terms than it was in 1979-80 . |
| 7 | Companies are merely voluntary associations of individuals joined together by contract , and correspondingly the state has no greater standing to intervene in corporate affairs than it has in the individual affairs of the citizens who make the company up . |
| 8 | On a time-scale which may not coincide exactly with our present scientific calculations of geological time , they say that the cycle commences with a period of 1.7 million years when the power of the Life Force is immeasurably stronger and more evident in physical affairs than it is today . |
| 9 | The crucial factor is whether technology provides new jobs at a higher rate in new activities than it eliminates in older industry . |
| 10 | But other schemes are less contentious : partly because the extra money gained from child benefits and other payments which favour lone parents is less than the extra money lone parents gain when the whole household is living on supplementary benefit ; and partly because the public tolerates laxer or more generous administration in other schemes than it is prepared to tolerate when it comes to means-tested benefits for the poor . |
| 11 | In many respects , therefore , it would appear that the family is a much less important institution in modern society than it was in the past . |
| 12 | It is true that the problem of the balance of power between social classes and organs represented a more vital problem in modern Europe than it had done in Polybius ' Rome . |
| 13 | But what is certain is that the democratic principle — that people should , as far as possible , make or participate in making the decisions that affect them most closely and importantly — could beneficially be applied far more widely in modern societies than It presently is . |
| 14 | This is known as ‘ translational lift ’ and accounts for the fact that a helicopter requires less power to maintain height in forward flight than it does in the hover ( Fig. 5.4 ) . |
| 15 | Moreover , the relative value of gold to silver was much lower in western Europe than it was further east , in the Byzantine and Islamic worlds , so gold tended to leave western Europe and silver became the principal medium for coinage . |
| 16 | The crime rate is higher in urban areas than it is in rural areas , and the larger the urban area the greater the crime rate is . |