Example sentences of "is much [adj -er] [conj] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The intellectual , emotional and practical development that goes on — or should go on — is much wider than that . |
| 2 | But the definition of a drug is much wider than that : a textbook definition would be ‘ any chemical agent that affects living processes ’ . |
| 3 | I believe the Chartered Institute of Transport , who launched TRANSAID , and all the sponsors can be well satisfied in the knowledge that the concept continues to fulfil a very valuable role in support of S.C.F. However it is clear that the need for help and guidance with transport management and operations in needy countries is much wider than that which can or should be tackled by S.C.F. Whether this has or should have any implications for the future status and role of TRANSAID is certainly an issue we shall be addressing with our parties as we enter our sixth year . |
| 4 | Simmel implies specific stages of historical or philosophical forms to equate with his material rather less than Hegel , but his text is much richer than that of his predecessor in the wealth of sociological models based upon such a sequence . |
| 5 | For example , the quality of housing occupied by ethnic minorities is much lower than that occupied by whites ( see chapter 7 , section 7.3 ) . |
| 6 | Moreover , in cases where single stranded DNA is desired from PCR TM II , the host cells must be infected by a helper phage and the yield of a single stranded DNA preparation is much lower than that from filamentous bacteriophage vectors carrying the same segment of foreign DNA ( 4 ) . |
| 7 | Yet , in this study the amount of platelet activating factor ( 0.03 pg/ml ; 1.2 ng/h ) is much lower than that of lyso platelet activating factor ( 0.09 ng/ml ; 6.1 µg/h ) and AAGPC ( 0.14 µg/ml ; 11.5 µg/h ) suggesting that platelet activating factor degradation may not be the only source of platelet activating factor precursors under pentagastrin stimulation . |
| 8 | The small negative slope after in vitro CO 2 equilibration of gall bladder bile ( ) is much lower than that found in human serum of -0.23 . |
| 9 | 1981 ) , and that the actual rate of offending is much higher than that revealed by official figures ( Hindelang , 1976 ; West and Farrington , 1973 ) . |
| 10 | But the alcohol consumption of Chan et al 's hypercapnic group averaged 124 units/week , which is much higher than that of our patients , whose consumption was similar to that of the population in Edinburgh studied by Chick et al . |
| 11 | The correlation is much higher than that with male age at marriage , leading him to hypothesize that ‘ the educational power of a family system may well be determined by the strength of maternal authority ’ ( p. 17 ) . |
| 12 | The results of this test are that the energy required to reach this state is much higher than that leading to the optimized B II conformations , overall losses varying from 12 to 40 Kcal/mol ( with the exception of the C6pG7 junction which nevertheless loses 6 Kcal/mol ) . |
| 13 | The likelihood of a branch plant or subsidiary closing is much higher than that of an independent or headquarters ’ ( Howland , 1988 , 193 ) . |
| 14 | For a particular substance , the density of the solid is much higher than that of the gas and slightly higher than that of the liquid . |
| 15 | But with oil prices now much lower than in the mid-1970s , the cost to the government is much higher than that of petrol . |
| 16 | The strength of the electromagnetic interaction is much larger than that of a weak interaction , and the range of the electromagnetic force is much greater than that of the weak force . |
| 17 | From a review of child and car stopping distances under various assumptions , they conclude that for a car travelling at only 16 km/h about 30m sight distance would be required , but that this is much greater than that normally feasible in existing shared space areas . |
| 18 | It is a naked-eye object , and binoculars show it excellently ; its actual surface brightness is much greater than that of the Small Cloud . |
| 19 | THE recommended code of practice , which the Press Council hopes to operate from March 1 1990 , is much fuller than that published recently by national newspapers , writes Georgina Henry . |
| 20 | The distinctive Peugeot blue body is much bulkier than that of the average tool . |
| 21 | In many lesser developed ( Third World ) countries , the proportion of notes and coin in the nation 's total money stock is much larger than that to be found in the advanced industrial nations due to the lack of sophisticated banking/financial systems in most poor countries ; also many of the residents still do not fully participate in the money economy due to barter and self-sufficiency . |
| 22 | The strength of the electromagnetic interaction is much larger than that of a weak interaction , and the range of the electromagnetic force is much greater than that of the weak force . |
| 23 | The notion that the Haiti glass compositions can be modelled as a mixing line is based on a published range of glass compositions that is much larger than that used in ref. 1 . |
| 24 | The female urethra is much shorter than that of the male . |
| 25 | While the market in the UK is much smaller than that in the USA , there is still an abundance of flying training organisations in this country , which should provide sufficient competition and minimise opportunities for sustained over-pricing . |
| 26 | The man who is convinced that his little clam-digger is much smaller than that of his peers will be delighted to discover that he is much more likely to have a greater co-efficient of linear expansion than his mates . |
| 27 | First , the population of contract computer staff is much smaller than that of agency secretarial/office workers and , insofar as there are fewer people working on this basis for a very short term or occasional basis , has a much higher stability of membership . |
| 28 | It is primarily a travel and entertainment card , so its retail outlets base is much narrower than that of its competitors . |
| 29 | The resolution of the infra-red detectors is much poorer than that of the eyes , and so the heat image is rather crude . |
| 30 | Hence the time taken to recognise a string such as FONHGTAEW is much longer than that taken to recognise the arrangement FOG HAT NEW . |