Example sentences of "than [is] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other major concern for women is about finding ways of living which give us more independence , more control over our own lives , and more self worth than is frequently the experience of women in subordination to men . |
| 2 | The societal divisions and problems of relations between the police and the community which this style of policing is called upon to ameliorate in Northern Ireland are more severe than is normally the case , which makes the RUC 's implementation and operation of community policing of special interest and previous neglect of this aspect of policing in the province a significant oversight . |
| 3 | Er on the envi environmental aspect , I think it 's worth emphasizing because clearly this is the major concern of both Scotton and er the Residents ' Association and er that the County Council has and perhaps to some extent I think it 's certainly the public consultations or the exercises I 've been involved in at this stage in a major scheme has done far more work in trying to assess those effects than is normally the case at this stage in a ma major highway scheme . |
| 4 | By way of postscript to these observations , some have discerned in the latest Soviet systems a greater introduction of new technology than is normally the pattern : a reflection , perhaps , of greater design confidence , but just as possibly the expression of worry about the pace of technological change in the present decade . |
| 5 | Television will infiltrate into the national consciousness even more copiously than is already the case the personalities of the two main party leaders . |
| 6 | We would be even more a country of two societies than is already the case , with the divide being between the employed haves and the unemployed have-nots . |
| 7 | ‘ Prospective home owners exercise more choice in the design and building phases and homes tend to incorporate more individual architecture and specifications than is generally the case in the U.K. There are correspondingly few large building contractors involved in speculative residential development . |
| 8 | None of these allowable deductions is ‘ uncommon in other countries but they are more wide-ranging in Japan than is generally the case elsewhere ’ ( Elston 1981 p.515 ) . |
| 9 | If such pensions are included in the figures , the statistics show wealth as being more equally distributed than is otherwise the case . |
| 10 | Then women , especially married women , were less visible in the public world and were discriminated against in it in many more explicit ways than is currently the case . |
| 11 | A Cockcroft type curriculum places a good deal more emphasis on " pattern spotting " than is currently the case . |
| 12 | More care should be exercised in the use of the adjective , as in ‘ autograph manuscript ’ , than is sometimes the case . |
| 13 | Death had not been sterilised , as in our day , and relegated to the hospitals , morticians ' parlours and crematoria chapels ; the fatal visitations were family events , at once more frequent and more familiar than is now the case . |
| 14 | Historical evidence shows that the so-called " present " tense could formerly be used much more freely to refer to the future than is now the case . |
| 15 | If committees were to be as business-like in this as in other matters , they would resort to this method rather than to mountebank exhibitions , in which the bold and unscrupulous fare best , and the honest and modest worst and there would be fewer vain regrets and miserable depositions afterwards , than is unhappily the case at present . |
| 16 | There is a far wider use of management ‘ generalists ’ than is typically the case under the Weberian model of specialization and credentialization . |
| 17 | In each of the East Asian economies there is evidence to suggest that both the level of complexity and the degree of individuation of labour are less than is typically the case in a classical Weberian bureaucracy . |
| 18 | And although elite mobility is likely to decline , ‘ there is reason to believe that access to positions in the political elite will remain less restricted in character than is typically the case in the capitalist societies ’ ( Giddens 1981 , p. 242 ) . |
| 19 | This is usually located between about 175 and 275 km from the trench , a rather greater distance than is typically the case with intra-oceanic island arcs . |
| 20 | Firstly , it creates the impression within West Belfast that more jobs are coming on stream than is actually the case , raising aspirations beyond their fulfilment . |
| 21 | Many of the suggestions made in this Report presuppose a higher degree of expertise and commitment in church organists or directors of music in the future than is often the case at present . |
| 22 | I have been lucky that my condition has progressed more slowly than is often the case . |
| 23 | It was significant that Mr Lamont had looked further ahead than is usually the case on Budget day , said Professor Sherer . |
| 24 | The opportunities for close , long-term relationships are greater than is usually the case in a large , metropolitan , residential area . |
| 25 | The relatively detailed information in the annals and in the correspondence of Alcuin for this phase of the reign of Eardwulf enables us to perceive more clearly than is usually the case the way in which an attempt to challenge a Northumbrian king could embrace both internal dissent and external interference . |
| 26 | This programme will seek to develop a framework for economic modelling within which links between the decisions of individual agents ( firms , households , unions ) and the behaviour of the economy at an aggregate level are more clearly established than is usually the case . |
| 27 | He had a hearty manner and his heavy spectacles suggested an even greater myopia than is usually the case with conference chairpersons . |
| 28 | You 'll be mentally flexible today , rather more than is usually the case . |