Example sentences of "than you would [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the whole the scene is quiet , quieter at least than you would expect considering that this is one of the most important wholesale fruit and vegetable markets in France , the great distributing centre for the primeurs of the astonishingly fertile and productive areas of the Vaucluse and the Comtat Venaissin. — areas which less than a hundred years ago were desperately poor , inadequately irrigated , isolated for lack of roads and transport , earthquake-stricken , devastated by blights which destroyed the cereal crops and the vines . |
| 2 | To make an atomic bomb , a terrorist or a would-be proliferator would need to get hold of only 5kg of weapon-grade plutonium or 15kg of weapon-grade uranium , less than you would need to fill a fruitbowl . |
| 3 | Mm say if you 're on the world , if you , if you 're a net importer , right , erm , and you 're buying your food commodities from the world market , you must have been rubbing your hands over the last fifty years cos you 're getting , you 're buying , you 're buying a food commodities will lower , lower prices than you would have done in the presence of free trade , cos there 's all this dumping and European surpluses , you know Come in |
| 4 | It is much better than you would have imagined , ’ he said . |
| 5 | ‘ And , if I may say so , my suspicions are that you 'll be making a considerably better living on the salary I pay you than you would have made working for yourself … ’ |
| 6 | It was not a big watch but the noise it made was much bigger than you would have expected . |
| 7 | With careful thought and the application of ruthless logic , it may be possible to establish a much larger claim than you would have expected . |
| 8 | ‘ But more than you would have got if Miss Morgan had agreed to your suggestion of splitting the fund up between you . |
| 9 | Says the diligent pilot : ‘ It is harder than you would have thought possible to identify fuel-contaminated water from avgas if your mindset is looking for globules of water in the bottom of a column of fuel . |
| 10 | ( More marks are typically lost by failing to write one answer altogether than by presenting two or three answers which are slightly weaker than you would have wished . ) |
| 11 | There 's gon na be times when you 're collecting more no 's than you would like to collect , and you 're gon na go home pretty miserable , and this is the time when your partners have got to know what you 're trying to achieve and maybe put the arm round your shoulder or butter you up , discuss these things with them . |