Example sentences of "[adj] than [pron] [vb mod] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Creggan was more afraid than he could ever remember , and did not know where to go and what to do . |
| 2 | She should be grateful that he was making things easier than they might otherwise have been . |
| 3 | But to a geologist it is about a thousand times shorter than he can ordinarily measure ! |
| 4 | The restored importance of indirect taxes , whatever its source , must , in the context of our earlier analysis , have made the UK tax system less progressive than it would otherwise have been . |
| 5 | The movement towards indirect taxation has therefore made the UK tax system less progressive than it would otherwise have been . |
| 6 | They accept that their work is less technical than they would perhaps like , but ‘ craftsmanship ’ is still possible in accurate diagnosis and illness management ( Freidson 1975 ) . |
| 7 | She felt physically fitter and more alive than she could ever remember . |
| 8 | Lower cost , whether from raised efficiency or lower prices , look a certainty — the catch is , that can only mean lower than they would otherwise have been . |
| 9 | The lakes were at their lowest levels for 20 years , and Chew was lower than I can ever remember . |
| 10 | The static welfare analysis of such practices is straightforward : price is higher and output lower than it would otherwise have been , so there is a welfare triangle loss . |
| 11 | He had gone to Rome once , maybe twice , and his relations with continental potentates were doubtless more extensive than we can now know . |
| 12 | Climbing in the rain makes you feel a lot more clever than it should rationally justify . |
| 13 | Indeed , in many cases some species were even bigger than we can possibly imagine . |
| 14 | The conceptual distinction between primary and secondary clues made this much clearer than it would otherwise have been . |
| 15 | But both authors recognise that experience in office in the coalition government had made the Labour leaders more cautious than they would otherwise have been : Dr Marwick comments that ‘ Middle-class radicalism and official trade unionism were much stronger influences than left-wing Socialism ’ , and Dr Addison speaks of an ‘ Attlee consensus ’ to which the Conservatives , when they returned to office in 1951 , also subscribed . |
| 16 | There had been a morning of heavy rain before the event and this must have reduced the expected numbers present and made it more subdued than it might otherwise have been . |
| 17 | There was also sadly a degree of controversy with regard to some records , making the work less valuable than it might otherwise have been . |
| 18 | In any case , Goblins have a marked tendency to bounce so casualties are probably fewer than one might reasonably expect . |
| 19 | The point is , enough Lib Dems voted Labour here and ensured that John Major 's new majority is two fewer than it would otherwise have been . |
| 20 | What comes to mind erm is that in the last erm fifteen years or so erm we 've been able to make magnets using superconducting wire , and these magnets erm involve very very large magnetic fields , much larger than one could ever get using a , a copper-wound magnets which were the , way when you did things previously and erm there are an enormous number of applications . |
| 21 | More hurt , bewildered and confused than she would ever have believed possible such a short time ago , she walked into the dark cottage and up to bed . |
| 22 | If we venture back further to the days of mono LPs and shellac 78-r.p.m. discs , the standard of music-making can be very special indeed and the sound often much better than we could possibly have expected . |
| 23 | On the other hand , the charting options within the spreadsheet function in Works are robust and simple to operate , with the result that graphics for analysis of publication data are much better than they would otherwise have been . |
| 24 | Grainne lay in Raynor 's arms before the fire , warm and drowsy , and more deeply happy than she could ever remember being . |
| 25 | discount will pay more than they would otherwise do . |
| 26 | On the " supply " side the parties will always be tempted to bribe the electorate and promise more than they can safely deliver after the votes are in the bag . |
| 27 | Instead , they mark with a ‘ D ’ many more than they can actually use . |
| 28 | To him who by means of his power working in us is able to do so much more than we can ever ask for , or even think of . |
| 29 | ‘ I thought she might give us a mention but to get a personal donation like this is more than we could ever have hoped for . ’ |
| 30 | We seemed to be peeing more than we could possibly have drunk . |