Example sentences of "than is [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much more vigorous action than is provided for in the Bill is needed . |
| 2 | Light : Needs very good light over a longer period than is used for other water plants Water temperature : 68°–78°F . |
| 3 | The production of stress is generally believed to depend on the speaker using more muscular energy than is used for unstressed syllables . |
| 4 | Due to the very nature of vigilance , the tests to measure it must take much longer than is required for the other tests above . |
| 5 | In an age where the ability of the land to produce more food than is required for many parts of the world is a fact of life , the argument for organic farming methods has never been stronger . |
| 6 | Clearly , a plant which stores 1 tonne less than is required for notification slips through the net , while large numbers of handling sites ( warehouses , for instance ) are not covered . |
| 7 | Teachers become more efficient at writing objectives the more they practise , so that they can soon reach the stage where the time taken is no more than is required for planning anyway . |
| 8 | Light : Requires bright light over a longer period than is required for most aquarium plants . |
| 9 | Apart from the very great difficulty of establishing how a couple manage their finances ( in effect one would have to take their word for it ) and the strong incentive they would have to arrange their affairs so as to safeguard the woman 's claim to benefit , the fact that she is receiving benefit may itself make it unnecessary for the man to give her more than is required for his own keep . |
| 10 | Similarly , the explosion in the population of sentenced prisoners , which was an ongoing phenomenon for most of the 1990s , appears to be largely attributable to the persistent practice of ‘ over-sentencing ’ — both in the sense of using custody unnecessarily for minor property offenders and others , and of imposing longer sentences across the board than is required for strictly reductivist purposes — for which responsibility rests mainly , but not exclusively , with the Crown Court . |
| 11 | The types of behaviour to which this motivation is said to lead include employing a larger staff than is required for the purposes of the business , lavish expenditure on office accommodation , transport , and various forms of entertainment , and on image- building ( but not cost-justified ) advertising , and charitable giving . |
| 12 | The other advantage of affray for the prosecutor is that it requires a less exacting proof of mens rea than is required for the offences against the person . |
| 13 | Readers are reminded that there is far more material given here than is needed for any particular scheme of study . |
| 14 | If the stitch pattern is smaller than the garment piece , the program will automatically fill the screen with more repeats of the pattern than is needed for the size of the garment shape . |
| 15 | The effect is small , develops gradually , is blocked by Ca 2+ channel antagonists , and requires stronger tetanic stimulation for its induction than is needed for NMDA receptor-dependent LTP . |