Example sentences of "than [indef pn] would have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Caballé , and from the past Johanna Gadski , who rather unexpectedly comes to mind more than once ) , and in ‘ O patria mia ’ the high C , the As too , are louder than one would have wished . |
| 2 | I understand that one of the reasons why it took longer than one would have wished was that the emergency services went to the inappropriate end of the tunnel , further away from the train , and had to be redirected to the other end , which gave easier access to the two trains . |
| 3 | German young people recently have shown a more revolutionary and radical sort of behaviour than one would have dreamt possible in the old Germany , but in this morning 's paper I read of the results of erm a public opinion poll recently conducted by the German government about neo-nazism in Germany , showing what seems to be a rather alarming quantity of surviving interest in sympathy for old nazism . |
| 4 | Susan , like Breeze , possessed the golden gift of putting people at their ease , and old Cornelius Fennell — for he was the world-famed art collector — proved to be far more amenable than one would have supposed . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The creature looked wilder and woollier than any I 've met in seas round about , its suckered and flock-piled textures giving more chew and less taste than one would have expected . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Rostov guessed that the social hierarchy was far more complex than anyone would have imagined . |
| 9 | The humble footbed has seen more changes than anyone would have thought possible in 1981 , when it was first used in the K-SB3s . |
| 10 | She faced her anger at being abandoned at an earlier age than anyone would have expected , and talked about loneliness . |