Example sentences of "than it [vb -s] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you have a piece of pottery that you suspect is older or younger than it purports to be , you can have it tested by thermoluminescence for £80 . |
| 2 | The fact that there is a surplus means that the public sector is spending less than it receives in taxes , etc . |
| 3 | What is worse still , they start from a wholly inadequate skill base which hinders more than it helps by carving up approaches which should be integrated into arbitrary professional divisions called ‘ occupational therapy ’ , ‘ physiotherapy ’ and so on . |
| 4 | Topics will include Compulsory Competitive Tendering , Local Management of Schools , the Community Charge and National Vocational Qualifications ( probably a lot more interesting than it sounds in black & white ! ) . |
| 5 | Equally the nature of the various styles , high , middle and low , needs more elucidation than it gets in this book ( cf. pp. 70 – 71 ) if it is to form a central plank of the discussion of lexis . |
| 6 | Most surveys show that a basket of food still costs a bit less at a supermarket than it does at an independent grocer 's ; but The Economist did not find that this week . |
| 7 | As Mr Cameron puts it , ‘ At the very time when most people want and need mobility — during the morning and evening peak periods — the system actually carries fewer of them than it does at various off-peak times . ’ |
| 8 | First , the dollar is still ‘ fundamentally undervalued ’ , and by quite a margin — that is , a dollar buys much less abroad than it does at home . |
| 9 | Hydro-electric power , though renewable , has a finite limit to its development potential unlike some of the other renewables and will never contribute a great deal more to world energy supply than it does at present . |
| 10 | Furthermore there will be other scholarship boys beside myself , and hopefully my intelligence will provoke less spite than it does at Marshside Junior . |
| 11 | The first dog will establish the ground rules for the second dog and invariably , a better and more consistent relationship is established between the two dogs — quite often the second dog forms a far greater bond with the other dog than it does with the owners . |
| 12 | Diligence at work then may have more to do with the consequences of non-cooperation than it does with internalizing the primacy of company interest . |
| 13 | Claudia Schiffer , on the other hand , appears to represent a return to innocence and vulnerability , which has more in common with the glamorous screen goddesses of the 1930s than it does with the predatory allure of Sharon Stone . |
| 14 | Graphics plays an even lesser role with SuperCalc 5.5 than it does with Lotus 1-2-3 , so if you do n't like pretty pictures you might be more at home in the Computer Associates stable — and at this price , why not ? |
| 15 | It is an angry , retrospective account of the trip to Aden which coincides more accurately with Nizan 's highly militant frame of mind in 1930 and 1931 , than it does with the Nizan of 1926 and 1927 groping his way slowly towards the solution of political action . |
| 16 | As a reader , it becomes easier to empathise with the androids and their fear than it does with Mildred and her friends in ‘ Fahrenheit 451 ’ who have become passionless . |
| 17 | But wherever she works , a woman-centred psychologist 's sex does not guarantee her feminism , any more than it does for an egalitarian feminist psychologist . |
| 18 | We may thus argue that /a/ functions for women as a network marker to a greater extent than it does for men ; by this we mean that there is for them a higher correlation between choice of variant and network structure , a tendency to select relatively backed variants being associated with higher levels of integration into the community . |
| 19 | ‘ And what happens if it lasts longer for one of us than it does for the other ? ’ |
| 20 | It is now clear that the presence of the wall causes the fluid viscosity to enter in a much more important way into the dynamics of turbulent motion than it does for free flows . |
| 21 | As an example , property insurance is cheaper than liability insurance , so that it makes more sense , for instance , for a site-owner to insure against the fire risk of a fire caused by an installer , under fire insurance , than it does for the installer to insure against liability for causing the same risk , under a public liability or contractor 's all risks policy . |
| 22 | that er normally lasts longer from Birmingham than it does for for here . |
| 23 | One industry spokesman comments : ‘ The overall performance of computerised management systems within the hotel industry relates more to the attitudes of managers towards training and the commitment of their suppliers than it does to the ‘ superiority ’ of the individual systems . ’ |
| 24 | THE SAATCHI & SAATCHI share price responds better these days to gossip and innuendo than it does to hard fact . |
| 25 | So far , it seems to the Palestinians that the US listens less to the ‘ moderates ’ of both sides than it does to Israel 's still very powerful , if increasingly defensive , champions , the Jewish lobby , its knee-jerk supporters in the Congress and the media , who are still ready to parrot the Israeli ‘ extremist ’ line that Arafat is , indeed , still Arafat . |
| 26 | The story pays more attention to the rescue of the single family of Rahab , and to the metallic treasures of the city , than it does to them . |
| 27 | One thing is certain : to the head , the manager or education officer in school , the official syllabus often appears far less important than it does to the curriculum committee or the outside observer . |
| 28 | Even in a socialist country like Tanzania , however committed one may be to the abolition of privilege in society , there is no arguing with the fact that young people with secondary and higher education can expect life to bring them a richer and more interesting experience than it does to the primary school leaver . |
| 29 | Those who have paid special attention to the interactions of parents and very young children say that the confusion between what belongs to self and what belongs to others applies with even more force to feelings than it does to bodies , and for very much longer . |
| 30 | The tensions associated with starting school could begin to be dissolved long before that anxiously awaited first day , a day which often causes more anguish to parents than it does to their children . |