Example sentences of "than [is] [art] case " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suspect that cultural matters here have a higher significance in the lives of ordinary people than is the case in the West . |
| 2 | Banking policy , both in Germany and in France , is far more geared to industry than is the case in the United Kingdom and there is considerable pressure on the German government to maintain grossly inefficient production in East Germany , which it can do by enlisting the aid of the banks . |
| 3 | Charity at 4 per cent interest was nothing to be ashamed of in the nineteenth century and it was much more commonplace for unsatisfactory tenants to be evicted than is the case today . |
| 4 | The typical pattern of cancer also shows a far higher proportion of younger people affected than is the case from other causes . |
| 5 | There is a much greater homogeneity and community of interest and value systems about the Western European states which are parties to the convention than is the case with the world community generally ; it is possible to prescribe with much greater precision and consistency the standards sought to be attained and , once attained , their observance is rendered much more likely , even without special enforcement procedures , by the social and economic interdependence and intercourse with prevails in Western European society as compared with the larger world community . |
| 6 | Others have argued that , whatever resources are available to housing , they could be used more effectively than is the case with the present system of MITR . |
| 7 | There can be little doubt that attractiveness in women is more closely associated with sexuality and sexuality with youth , than is the case for men . |
| 8 | These courses would be much more cross-disciplinary than is the case now . |
| 9 | Litigation may also have a valuable contribution to make in activating and mobilising a constituency of common interests , thereby helping to establish and strengthen a collective political identity on the part of otherwise somewhat amorphous interests groups such as environmentalists , or peace campaigners , among whom there may be less cohesion and common identity than is the case with other campaigning groups . |
| 10 | It also suggests that , given the inevitably subjective nature of much decision making within this area , proposed changes to child care law and procedure should take more account of family rights and due process of law than is the case at the moment . |
| 11 | It is not , any more than is the case in natural science . |
| 12 | It is in these groups that subcontracting is especially strong , and their organization is more heavily centralized around the parent firm than is the case in the keiretsu . |
| 13 | The opportunities for bureaucrats in the UK to subvert or negate the wishes of elected officials are far fewer and more limited in scope than is the case in the diffused , more open and non-hierarchical structures of the federal administration in the United States . |
| 14 | The power of the microcomputer , with its television screen , in affecting the classroom situation is such that it is less likely that a teacher can bend a unit away from its designer 's intentions towards his own style and purpose than is the case with printed material . |
| 15 | The figures are broadly similar although a slightly greater number of students is involved in each practice than is the case among Schofield 's group . |
| 16 | " in a school such as ours where the teaching has distinct literary and mathematical pretensions and in which school hours are shorter than is the case in some parts of the country there is not , under present conditions , sufficient time for the proper development of both subjects : and experts are nearly unanimous in the opinion that Physics affords a better intellectual training than Chemistry , and the expense and risk in maintaining a Physical Laboratory is also distinctly less . " |
| 17 | Japanese businesses tend to be more focused on specific activities than is the case in the West , where mergers and acquisitions typically result in conglomerates of unrelated businesses . |
| 18 | This means that among women a relatively large amount of /a/ backing is more likely to be associated with a high level of integration into the network than is the case among men — a relationship analysed by Spearman 's Rank Order Correlation ( L. Milroy , 1987 : 155 ) . |
| 19 | This sense of ‘ apartness ’ reinforces the internal reliance of the mining community — or ‘ cohesive mass segregation ’ ( p. 69 ) — and also promotes a greater level of strike-proneness than is the case in more heterogeneous industrial settlements . |
| 20 | In most of the southern States , therefore , the level of AFDC payments is much less likely to contribute to the generation of a ‘ culture of dependency ’ on the state than is the case in many further north — especially in the Upper Great Lakes region — and west . ) |
| 21 | Women are so utterly used to working with their own bodies : we are trained to do so from the first time we wear pink-for-a-girl , and a concentration upon the significations of our physicality is encouraged to a far greater extent than is the case with boys and men . |
| 22 | It is less easily defensible that the practitioners appear to think less deeply about the meaning of the present abundance of data than is the case in many other fields of science . |
| 23 | Consequently , it may be used more easily and fine tuning in earlier stages of design is much easier than is the case with an optimization technique . |
| 24 | Although cerebral organisation in adolescence may be characterised by greater functional plasticity than is the case among adults , the picture after left hemispherectomy is essentially one of gross linguistic impoverishment in which comprehension is better preserved than expressive speech . |
| 25 | Third , it is far more difficult to calculate the economic return to the individual on investment in health services than is the case with education . |
| 26 | Most new mothers do not know what the Guthrie test is for : a considerable number incorrectly believe that it will detect more disorders than is the case . |
| 27 | Camera positions will be much the same , except that there is probably more interest in seeing the lecturer and less in the audience than is the case with teacher and class . |
| 28 | On the other hand , he or she disposes this increased income over a wider range of services , many of which ( it is asserted ) are less capable of automation ( increased productivity ) than is the case in production of industrial goods . |
| 29 | The particular power of LTP as a model , though , apart from the possibility of moving readily between levels of analysis even more strikingly than is the case with Aplysia , from intact organism to slice , lies in its geometry . |
| 30 | However , it clearly performs a much less crucial or well-defined function than is the case in the Western capitalist economies . |