Example sentences of "[adj] than [pron] would have expect " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It was not a big watch but the noise it made was much bigger than you would have expected . |
| 3 | They were a kindly couple , rather older than one would have expected , although there had always been a suggestion of old-fashionedness about Dorothy as a child . |
| 4 | Emily was altogether more cheerful than I would have expected from her circumstances . |
| 5 | For example , they lived very much longer than one would have expected , and Gellmann said well these were strange particles and he invented a new quantum number called a strangeness , and then he assumed that this strangeness quantum number was not quite conserved. erm we have conserved quantum numbers in physics like the charge — you have to conserve the charge , but you do n't quite have to conserve the strangeness . |
| 6 | His head was growing heavy , he would ask for some coffee when the waiter returned ; it was dark indoors , darker than he would have expected on a showery early summer afternoon , when the sun outside does not dazzle . |
| 7 | He was less sympathetic than I would have expected , but I am sure that he will send her home if she is unwell . ’ |