Example sentences of "than [was/were] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe she was quite intelligent ; but she was no more so than were quite a number of the poor she already knew . |
| 2 | Statutory duties now cover a wider range of special needs groups than was formerly the case . |
| 3 | The textual practices of these nouveaux romanciers reveal a much greater similarity than was previously the case : under Ricardou 's stewardship , a new aesthetic programme seems to have been in operation . |
| 4 | Another reason to be grateful for all the publicity and discussion about child abuse is that former victims are seeking treatment at a far earlier age than was previously the case and therefore are able to go on and live a normal life once that treatment is complete . |
| 5 | It is a great deal more professional than it was a few years ago comparable with the standards of other types of consultancies and partnership firms , and is attracting an altogether higher quality of person than was previously the case . |
| 6 | Since trust in Hitler had owed a great deal to the belief that he would lead Germany to a rapid and glorious peace , since despair of an early end to the war was the essential reason for the waning morale , and since the failure of the Blitzkrieg in the USSR and the declaration of war on the USA made it difficult in logic to hold anyone other than Hitler responsible for the prolonging of the war , it is worth enquiring why the ‘ Hitler myth ’ did not collapse more quickly than was evidently the case . |
| 7 | the Palladium — a cheap trick to try and convince the punters that they were in somewhere far classier than was really the case . |
| 8 | Surprised by Joy limited by the necessarily artificial conventions of autobiography , gives an impression that the development of Lewis 's religious opinions was much more cut and dried than was really the case . |
| 9 | The concern about declining councillor calibre embodies a bitter lament that a variety of changes have conspired to result in a situation in which there is now a less close and direct relationship between economic power , social status , and the political control of local government than was once the case in the Victorian age when local government enjoyed the leadership of businessmen and local notables . |
| 10 | Politically orthodox Bulgaria may have more or an interest in good trading relations with the West than was once the case ; but would she alter anything by way of political character , or even policy , to this end ? |
| 11 | On the whole , despite sporadic resistance , the hands of public censorship and outrage lie more lightly on the author and playwright , the cinema and the television director than was once the case . |
| 12 | Even colonies which did not have direct religious origins would have religious commitments ; Virginia had been launched in as secular-minded a mood as almost any colony but it remained firmly attached to the forms of the Church of England , though the lack of regular episcopal organization made its clergy more responsive to the wishes of their congregations than was usually the case in England . |
| 13 | So we wanted the CPRS to be less of a Cabinet-wide body more serving the Prime Minister than was actually the case . |
| 14 | Yet each development officer thought she would end up with far more paid support workers than was actually the case ; one surmise , for example , was that there might come a time when they had 30 clients on their case load each with two paid carers . |
| 15 | This , therefore , showed the company to have a much larger credit turnover figure than was actually the case . |