Example sentences of "than [pron] would be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much more scared by yourself than you would be with me . |
| 2 | This is bound to be somewhat artificial , since the obligation to show all the stages of your reasoning forces you to appear rather more introspective than you would be in real life , but it still provides good practice in arranging and presenting material in an acceptable style . |
| 3 | Whether one is ‘ sticking close to the knitting ’ ( Peters and Waterman , 1982 ; Redding , 1990 ) by focusing only on what one knows well , in a family business , or whether one is involved in imperatively co-ordinating only a fairly specific range of business-related activity , as in typical Japanese enterprises , leaving the broader picture to the inter-market relations and to state planning , one is certainly involved in a far more restricted and less audacious exercise of planning than one would be in trying to plan the twenty or thirty unrelated businesses of the typical conglomerate . |
| 4 | ‘ He has damaged the ligaments but the nature of the injury makes us more hopeful of recovery than we would be from some ankle injuries . ’ |
| 5 | Impressed as we may be by the caddis house , we are nevertheless , paradoxically , less impressed than we would be by equivalent achievements in animals closer to ourselves . |
| 6 | They erm there 's , there 's less , there 's less a feeling of community in there than there would be on the average street . |
| 7 | They can be more selfless , more public spirited , more erm idealistic than they would be on their own , because the super ego can presumably erm influence the ego in both directions , it can make the ego erm transcend itself as it were to higher ideals and like someone sometimes sees this in , in group behaviour , but equally of course it can erm debase the ego by setting lower standards than the ego would normally accepted itself . |
| 8 | Overheads ( rent , rates etc ) are usually lower than they would be in a town centre , where sites are expensive |
| 9 | Goods are bought in bulk ; and prices are often lower than they would be in a department store or High Street shop . |
| 10 | And now that they 've retired on half pension , they 're a damn sight better off than they would be in Sydney or Auckland , let alone London . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Inevitably , the care staff helping them are supervised to a much lesser degree than they would be in a residential establishment . ’ |
| 12 | It will tend to mean retailers will keep prices lower than they would be in the absence of rivals . |
| 13 | They also mean that lending rates , due to the higher cost must be higher and deposit rates must be lower than they would be in the Euromarkets . |
| 14 | There are plenty of cases in which each member of a co-operating group is better off than it would be on its own . |
| 15 | Furthermore , my own analysis of the Technics arrangement suggest that it is sensitive to loudspeaker impedance variations ; under some conditions the performance is worse with the subsidiary amplifier than it would be without it . |
| 16 | * A companion horse nearby will keep the horse calmer than it would be without it . |
| 17 | Contrary to such a view , black kids believe that , for them , being successful is more difficult than it would be for the white person of comparable proficiency . |
| 18 | ‘ I was just saying that it 's easier for me than it would be for your average Englishman . |
| 19 | I think life is easier for me than it would be for a lot of working women because of the university creche , which enables me to go to work and sort of see my daughter at lunch time , that sort of thing . |
| 20 | The windows above glow because of their alabaster filling but make the interior darker than it would be with glass . |
| 21 | On present evidence , that would be welcome : a reunited Germany with Mr Kohl as its first chancellor is likely to be more prosperous , and stabler , than it would be under the Social Democrats . |
| 22 | If interest payable under any such agreement or notification is less than it would be under the client money regulations , that fact must be prominently stated in the relevant written consent . |
| 23 | Similarly , the range of interest rates charged on bank loans was much narrower than it would be in America or Britain . |
| 24 | The eggs , even before they hatch , require great care , reducing the time a parent bird can spend finding food for itself and keeping it sitting on the ground or in the branches of a tree where it is exposed to much more danger than it would be in the air . |
| 25 | Your time is much more limited than it would be in a real case , and you can not afford to waste it ; on the other hand , it is no use gabbling what you have to say , for then it will not be understood . |
| 26 | Because of this the language in video materials , even for elementary level , tends to be a little more varied than it would be in the textbook . |
| 27 | I 'm putting your question down , is it a lot more expensive than it would be in the , in the producer country , which is what you said really , is n't it ? |
| 28 | Is it a lot more expensive than it would be in the producer country ? |
| 29 | If the person lives with a family member with whom he has an intense relationship , characterised by a high level of criticism and overinvolvement , his risk of relapse is much higher than it would be in a less intense atmosphere ( Brown et al. , 1972 ; Leff and Vaughn , 1981 ) . |
| 30 | Others were that ‘ need ’ as opposed to ‘ reasonable requirement ’ did not have to be shown , that the case for making an order against an officer of the company was stronger than it would be against a third party , that an order for oral examination ( as in Cloverbay itself ) was likely to be more oppressive than an order for the production of documents . |