Example sentences of "than would have been [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other group consists of countries for whom the deterioration of the US payments balance and the inflow of speculative funds generated a faster rate of monetary expansion , and lower interest rates , than would have been adopted on purely domestic criteria . |
| 2 | In fact that familiarity can sometimes be deceptive ; behind the restored classical vocabulary lurk more of the earlier aristocratic assumptions than would have been conceded by most nineteenth-century historians ; so if anthropological interpretations become less useful , there is still danger in pushing narrowly juridical ones . |
| 3 | In any case , lest anyone think the Royal Society of Chemistry had pandered to Elena Ceauşescu 's vanity , he assured the public that ‘ the fellowship was presented at a ceremony no grander than would have been arranged for any other spouse of a head of state . ’ |
| 4 | This is slightly less than would have been obtained on an ordinary fixed deposit for 90 days at 10 per cent . |
| 5 | ‘ Our relative losses have been higher than would have been accepted in a listed plc , ’ he says . |
| 6 | Even so , it is a great deal more than would have been credited to a bird even a few years ago . |
| 7 | It was placed a little further forward along the wall of the building than would have been selected by a novice and apparently with a knowledge of the positions of the interior walls . |
| 8 | This would ensure , inter alia , that defendants charged with relatively trivial acts would neither suffer the stigma of conviction for a serious offence with a high penalty nor would run the risk of a more severe sentence than would have been dispensed under the old law . |
| 9 | Do US president Bill Clinton and British prime minister John Major have more in common than would have been guessed from their brief meeting earlier this month ? |
| 10 | The number of pubs freed from ties as a result of the undertakings required by the Secretary of State will be much greater than would have been required under the orders . |
| 11 | Polarisation tended to occur more on simpler machines , which could be programmed off the shop floor and operated by those with less skill than would have been required for conventional machines doing work of that complexity . |
| 12 | In some ways sculptors became more adventurous , creating figures of larger scale and with more expansive poses than would have been tried in the first century . |
| 13 | ‘ Cardinal Stuart , ’ wrote the British minister in Florence to Horace Walpole , ‘ by putting on the cowle [ i.e. cardinal 's hat ] has done more to extinguish his party than would have been effected by putting to death many thousand of deluded followers . ’ |
| 14 | Resources were obtained from central government under the 1952 Town Development Act and the 1961 Housing Act which subsidized the importation of an over spill population , but these were far less than would have been provided to a designated New Town where all infrastructure costs would have been borne by central government . |
| 15 | By 1988 interim results indicated that around 10 per cent fewer accidents occurred than would have been expected without the schemes . |
| 16 | This is about 10 more , she says , than would have been expected From the whole 8000 servicemen who , she says , took part in the South Pacific tests between 1957 and 1958 . |