Example sentences of "[noun pl] than [pron] would have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the Eastern District was less successful in some respects than it would have liked to be , it was not for want of trying . |
| 2 | There were also financial losses to the British Electricity Authority from having to operate old and inefficient plant for more extended periods than they would have chosen in normal times : in the early 1950s the extra cost of burning scarce coal inefficiently was reckoned at £3½ millions a year at the low official coal prices of the time , though the real resource cost was somewhat higher than this . |
| 3 | Remarkably , the subsequent behaviour leaves the pulsar rotating more slowly after 50 days than it would have done in the absence of the glitch . |
| 4 | Seb saw far less of Carrie during these weeks than he would have wished . |
| 5 | The humble footbed has seen more changes than anyone would have thought possible in 1981 , when it was first used in the K-SB3s . |
| 6 | Sometimes I 'll even do more exaggerated things than he would have done , but I do it because that 's the way the music makes me feel . |
| 7 | The consequence of this ( and the unpredictable timing of death ) is that individuals may leave more to their heirs than they would have left had there been perfect markets . |
| 8 | Mm say if you 're on the world , if you , if you 're a net importer , right , erm , and you 're buying your food commodities from the world market , you must have been rubbing your hands over the last fifty years cos you 're getting , you 're buying , you 're buying a food commodities will lower , lower prices than you would have done in the presence of free trade , cos there 's all this dumping and European surpluses , you know Come in |
| 9 | Within fifty minutes a Metropolitan Police helicopter swung in across the fields , guided by the radio of the squad car , to deposit on the road behind the cars a small , bird-like man called Dr Barnard , the Chief Explosives Officer of the Met , a man who , thanks to the bomb outrages of the IRA in mainland Britain , had examined more explosion scenes than he would have wished . |
| 10 | There were more wreaths than she would have expected and the flowers were already wilting in the merciless sun . |
| 11 | This threat posed less of a distraction to the horses than I would have hoped . |