Example sentences of "[adv] than [modal v] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This enabled the party to put across its message more efficiently and effectively than would otherwise have been the case , and helped compensate for the other serious communications difficulties within the country . |
| 2 | This has helped it manage the recession more successfully than would otherwise have been possible . |
| 3 | If we implemented this protocol on these patients , we would certainly be leaving these eighteen patients with small tumours in their bladder for several months longer than would previously have been the case . |
| 4 | Each exact and firm handling of a narrow issue , however , helps towards treating broader issues , in which that narrow issue is contained , more exactly than would otherwise have been possible . |
| 5 | The fast response time enabled negotiations to be concluded more quickly than might otherwise have been the case . |
| 6 | Prime Minister Schlüter called the December 1990 elections earlier than would normally have been necessary in an attempt to obtain a firm mandate for far-reaching economic reforms . |
| 7 | Soon , though , he had to leave the field with a recurrence of his leg injury , and Waqar ( 0 for 99 off 22 overs ) returned perhaps a little earlier than might otherwise have been the case . |