Example sentences of "[adj] than [pron] [vb mod] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mine host insisted upon introducing him to everyone , which helped identification at the cost of making him somewhat more conspicuous than he would have liked . |
| 2 | My hon. Friend 's question is more apposite than he might have imagined . |
| 3 | Tried and tested methods , which someone less technologically illiterate than myself could have guessed at , are put to very effective use . |
| 4 | The excitement is in the expectation that , having been around and seen all that you can , the end product will be at least a little more interesting than it might have been if you had stayed at home . |
| 5 | In front of Fraser , Ramsay himself had to be more restrained than he would have wished , but at least Agnes 's cheerful kisses allowed him to bestow a like greeting on her sister , Fraser looking on somewhat askance . |
| 6 | Thiercelin was somewhat less interested than he would have been a few days earlier . |
| 7 | If the hon. Member for Fife , Central dislikes the idea of reviews , it suggests that his attitude to public expenditure is less rigorous than I would have expected . |
| 8 | However , and probably thanks to Carole Meadows ' warm , engaging personality , it had proved to be much easier than she could have imagined . |
| 9 | 1-2-3 release 3.4 for DOS makes nothing easier than it would have been under Windows , but even the Lotus 1-2-3 for Windows version needs a major overhaul before many folk will take it seriously . |
| 10 | Though it was easier than I could have hoped , my pride and self-pity would not admit it . |
| 11 | And so that , it made me a tougher than I should have been . |
| 12 | Her moon-shaped face was always split with a smile , even when she was scooping up dog turds with a device the handle of which was at least two feet shorter than I would have wanted it to be . |
| 13 | I think I could be a lot lot shorter than it might have been thought was necessary because things have been made , a lot of furniture has be has been moved today er already . |
| 14 | Furthermore , if the members of the harmonie rustique were moving around the stage as part of the spectacle , it seems much less likely that they would have been changing instruments picking up a flute for one number , a bassoon for another than they might have done had they been playing from a pit . |
| 15 | ‘ You are right , my brother , ’ Edward replied , more heartened than he would have admitted by the prince 's words . |
| 16 | A walk was exactly what she needed , although the continuing hot weather made it less pleasant than it might have been . |
| 17 | There is evidence that this tactic had some effect in marginal seats and , indeed , made the overall result far better for Labour than it would have been had people not voted tactically . |
| 18 | One was a small café that sold pizza and chips for less than the small fortune we expected , and served by a girl friendlier than we could have hoped for . |
| 19 | Moreover , if bad management is perceived by the stock market , share prices will be lower than they might have been and a takeover raider may see an opportunity to buy up the company , install a better management , improve profits , and hence make capital gains when share prices subsequently rise . |
| 20 | It has enabled living standards to be higher and inflation lower than they would have been if the existing current account position had been maintained . |
| 21 | For the reformers ' vision of a fully-developed hierarchy , each man with his own sphere of competence , all subject to canon law and all beneath the discipline of the papal rod , evoked a mixture of admiration and envy in those laymen , accustomed to deference , whose position in the ecclesiastical scheme was lower than they would have wished . |
| 22 | The rise in overall population was actually lower than it might have been . |
| 23 | the structural reform will create 3,650,000 losers ( i.e. their income will be lower than it would have been if the old system had continued and been up-rated in the normal way , and there had been no transitional protection ) compared with 3,190,000 gainers ( the Government claims that 5,000,070 gained ) while 1,680,000 people remain unaffected . |
| 24 | Output is accordingly lower than it would have been under conditions of perfect competition , and resources are diverted to alternative , less valuable uses . |
| 25 | Invariably riding green ponies , his handicap at six was lower than it should have been . |
| 26 | ‘ Mrs Frere is less strong than she would have us all believe . ’ |
| 27 | But the whole incident was less memorable than it should have been — she seemed like an ordinary human being , very neat in a coat and skirt , talking about her hotel at Woodstock . |
| 28 | Many were seeking to get out while they could , so many indeed that Ramsay feared that they must be seen by the blockading English ships lying off , for the July night was less dark than he could have wished . |
| 29 | The young are more forgiving than adults , and despite the haughty isolation I had practised , I was far more accepted than I could have hoped for . |
| 30 | Susan , like Breeze , possessed the golden gift of putting people at their ease , and old Cornelius Fennell — for he was the world-famed art collector — proved to be far more amenable than one would have supposed . |