Example sentences of "[adj] than it [vb past] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The flip-flop , outlined in the first of a series of three press conferences last Wednesday ( with more to come today , Monday ) , turned far messier than it needed to be due largely to DEC 's inability to admit that it had flip-flopped to begin with . |
| 2 | It may seem also that each vassal could only have one lord : otherwise the bond would be less personal than it purported to be , and the vassal might be involved in a serious conflict of loyalty . |
| 3 | There should have been light from above and below , but in fact there was almost none , and it was partly because of that , and because it was also rather colder than it had to be , that Quiss had set off something like an hour before to find some of the castle 's attendants . |
| 4 | The machinery of employer reaction may have been rustier than it seemed to be . |
| 5 | Conflicting demands and timescales also made the project more difficult than it needed to be . |
| 6 | However , John Merrill has qualified this assessment by pointing out that Rhee himself encouraged many independents to stand because of the weakness of his own political organisation ; while a reverse for Rhee , his position after the election was rather stronger than it appeared to be . |