Example sentences of "[adj] than [pers pn] would [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Overheads ( rent , rates etc ) are usually lower than they would be in a town centre , where sites are expensive |
| 2 | Goods are bought in bulk ; and prices are often lower than they would be in a department store or High Street shop . |
| 3 | It will tend to mean retailers will keep prices lower than they would be in the absence of rivals . |
| 4 | They also mean that lending rates , due to the higher cost must be higher and deposit rates must be lower than they would be in the Euromarkets . |
| 5 | This is bound to be somewhat artificial , since the obligation to show all the stages of your reasoning forces you to appear rather more introspective than you would be in real life , but it still provides good practice in arranging and presenting material in an acceptable style . |
| 6 | Your time is much more limited than it would be in a real case , and you can not afford to waste it ; on the other hand , it is no use gabbling what you have to say , for then it will not be understood . |
| 7 | Impressed as we may be by the caddis house , we are nevertheless , paradoxically , less impressed than we would be by equivalent achievements in animals closer to ourselves . |
| 8 | Waiting briefly for the lift he told himself that he was no more involved than he would be in any other case . |
| 9 | And now that they 've retired on half pension , they 're a damn sight better off than they would be in Sydney or Auckland , let alone London . ’ |
| 10 | If interest payable under any such agreement or notification is less than it would be under the client money regulations , that fact must be prominently stated in the relevant written consent . |
| 11 | * A companion horse nearby will keep the horse calmer than it would be without it . |
| 12 | If the person lives with a family member with whom he has an intense relationship , characterised by a high level of criticism and overinvolvement , his risk of relapse is much higher than it would be in a less intense atmosphere ( Brown et al. , 1972 ; Leff and Vaughn , 1981 ) . |
| 13 | Contrary to such a view , black kids believe that , for them , being successful is more difficult than it would be for the white person of comparable proficiency . |
| 14 | Others were that ‘ need ’ as opposed to ‘ reasonable requirement ’ did not have to be shown , that the case for making an order against an officer of the company was stronger than it would be against a third party , that an order for oral examination ( as in Cloverbay itself ) was likely to be more oppressive than an order for the production of documents . |
| 15 | Because of this the language in video materials , even for elementary level , tends to be a little more varied than it would be in the textbook . |
| 16 | I 'm putting your question down , is it a lot more expensive than it would be in the , in the producer country , which is what you said really , is n't it ? |
| 17 | Is it a lot more expensive than it would be in the producer country ? |
| 18 | The windows above glow because of their alabaster filling but make the interior darker than it would be with glass . |
| 19 | They can be more selfless , more public spirited , more erm idealistic than they would be on their own , because the super ego can presumably erm influence the ego in both directions , it can make the ego erm transcend itself as it were to higher ideals and like someone sometimes sees this in , in group behaviour , but equally of course it can erm debase the ego by setting lower standards than the ego would normally accepted itself . |
| 20 | Similarly , the range of interest rates charged on bank loans was much narrower than it would be in America or Britain . |