Example sentences of "than [pers pn] would [be] [prep] a " 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 | ‘ Inevitably , the care staff helping them are supervised to a much lesser degree than they would be in a residential establishment . ’ |
| 4 | I think life is easier for me than it would be for a lot of working women because of the university creche , which enables me to go to work and sort of see my daughter at lunch time , that sort of thing . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |