Example sentences of "[adv] [adj -er] than have " in BNC.
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| 1 | The combined effect of Perot cutting into Clinton 's support and of evidence that Bush 's standing in the polls was showing some signs of improvement rejuvenated the President 's campaign in the final days of the contest and forced the Democrats to concede that the election could be much closer than had earlier been thought likely . |
| 2 | Using a condom is certainly much safer than having penetrative sex without one . |
| 3 | The cost of the service turned out to be much higher than had been predicted . |
| 4 | ‘ The costs of absence are now shown to be much higher than had previously been thought , ’ said Robbie Gilbert , the CBI 's director of employment affairs . |
| 5 | This gives five year detection rates of at least 26/1000 for men and 18/1000 for women in the age group 20–39 , so high arterial pressure in young adults is much commoner than has generally been supposed . |
| 6 | A lot of labour yes but that was far far better than to have to turn them by hand you know . |
| 7 | The Data Protection Registrar , in publicising a closing date of May 1986 for the receipt of registrations , had no idea how many data users ought to be registering ; in the event the flow of registrations was far slower than had been hoped , but by the end of 1986 it was clear that the higher guesses were more likely to be right . |
| 8 | Mohamed Sahnoun , the UN Secretary-General 's special representative , was quoted on Sept. 4 as saying that the famine , in which relief agencies had estimated that 1,500,000 people faced death , was in fact far worse than had been realised . |
| 9 | In other responses , Lord Melchett , executive director of Greenpeace , said that the White Paper was even worse than had been expected from leaks and that the government had " dodged the important issues by reiterating existing inadequate policies and avoided making any new commitments which would protect the environment " . |
| 10 | ‘ That is sometimes worse than having too little , ’ Otto agreed . |
| 11 | A close contest between two evenly matched crews had been predicted and so it proved in conditions that were considerably better than had been anticipated . |