Example sentences of "[vb base] [adj] than they [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ten classic schoolboy howlers that say more than they should : |
| 2 | In short , they get less than they would with insider trading . |
| 3 | From Polanyi 's account of the tacit knowledge with which scientists operate ( they ‘ know more than they can tell ’ ) , through Kuhn 's picture of incommensurable paradigms ( their proponents ‘ practise their trades in a different world ’ ) to Feyerabend 's idea of scientific growth through unbridled Machiavellianism ( ‘ anything goes ’ ) , it has emerged that even science can not live up to its self-congratulatory belief in its own reasonableness . |
| 4 | Price fixing ( Geis 1967 ; Smith 1961 ) and illegal monopoly pricing ( Klass 1975 ) both mean that customers pay more than they would under competitive conditions ; bribing corrupt officials ( Braithwaite 1979b ; Jacoby , Nehemlis , and Ells 1977 ) may mean reducing competitors ' profit margins or even driving them into bankruptcy ; illegal mergers and take-overs and other shady financial manoeuvres may result in many shareholders being defrauded ( Hopkins 1980b ) ; misleading advertising as well as trimming production costs may result in customers buying goods whose quality fails totally to match manufacturers ' glossy claims , thus leaving a swindled consumer population ( Moffit 1976 ) ; corporate tax evasion and avoidance may mean more average taxes paid by individual members of the public ( Vanick 1977 ) . |
| 5 | Juliet Kellner spoke to some people who pay less than they might — or none at all — and found out how they salve their consciences . |
| 6 | By this means the Sun-facing regions become cooler than they would otherwise be . |
| 7 | On the " supply " side the parties will always be tempted to bribe the electorate and promise more than they can safely deliver after the votes are in the bag . |