Example sentences of "than you would have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 |
| 2 | It is much better than you would have imagined , ’ he said . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 … ’ |
| 4 | It was not a big watch but the noise it made was much bigger than you would have expected . |
| 5 | With careful thought and the application of ruthless logic , it may be possible to establish a much larger claim than you would have expected . |
| 6 | ‘ But more than you would have got if Miss Morgan had agreed to your suggestion of splitting the fund up between you . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ( 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 . ) |