Example sentences of "than they [modal v] [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What the chapel and the parish managed to ensure , in the last analysis , was that Betty 's last few years were less harrowing than they might otherwise have been . |
| 2 | In the role of general secretary of the ITGWU Larkin proved to be a difficult colleague and drove union leaders on the mainland into less militant positions than they might otherwise have adopted . |
| 3 | Thus it seems likely that health authorities were encouraged to be generous in the allocation of budgets , that fundholders were less concerned than they might otherwise have been about the need to stay within strict cash limits , and that non-fundholders were allowed greater freedom of referral than might have been anticipated . |
| 4 | We very much hope that that money will help many countries to phase out CFCs much earlier than they might otherwise have done . |
| 5 | She should be grateful that he was making things easier than they might otherwise have been . |
| 6 | Before the finale , when he mystifyingly decided they were more important than they 'll ever know , ’ he accused them of speaking ‘ piffle , tosh and cynicism . ’ |
| 7 | Hardship allowances are paid as compensation to those expatriates relocated to countries where they have to face greater discomforts or difficulties than they would normally experience at home : climate , unstable political environments , isolation , separation from children , poor sanitation , and so on . |
| 8 | To do so , they will have to issue a good deal more paper than they would normally like . |
| 9 | But an element of rationing can override this tendency : when people know that their budgets will stand only a certain level of instalment payment , that forces them into longer repayment schedules than they would otherwise choose . |
| 10 | Whether we discover them in the landscape or in ourselves , we are imbuing the places concerned with more significance than they would otherwise possess . |
| 11 | By limited liability the state is encouraging management to use shareholder funds in more risky ventures than they would otherwise undertake , and then pass on the liability at a time for forced liquidation , to third parties . |
| 12 | The most efficient recyclers would thus have an incentive to go further than they would otherwise do . |
| 13 | discount will pay more than they would otherwise do . |
| 14 | He moved more heavily and slowly so that often they had to pause to allow him to keep up , and they rested for his sake more often than they would otherwise have done . |
| 15 | For them , the cost is this anxiety , and the fact that ( because of the rate of charge on their credit obligations , which commonly is high ) they are poorer , in terms of what they can buy , than they would otherwise have been . |
| 16 | So in real terms , their attempt to buy off inflation through borrowing makes them poorer than they would otherwise have been . |
| 17 | VERs are designed to protect the domestic car industry , but critics argue that consumers suffer , as some are prevented from buying the car of their choice , and that the prices of Japanese cars are higher than they would otherwise have been , thus raising Japanese profit margins ( ie profit per car sold ) . |
| 18 | Lower cost , whether from raised efficiency or lower prices , look a certainty — the catch is , that can only mean lower than they would otherwise have been . |
| 19 | Compact will certainly enable some young people to secure better jobs than they would otherwise have done . |
| 20 | c The past 3 years have destroyed the myth that elderly dementing people can not play a role in the running of a nursing home — we have seen even severe Alzheimer residents respond to normalization programme and reality orientation work and enjoy it and , indeed , remain at a plateau much longer than they would otherwise have done ( highly subjective comment , I know ) . |
| 21 | Developments in Afghanistan assumed a greater significance for Western governments than they would otherwise have had because of the place they appeared to occupy in an ‘ Arc of Crisis ’ that extended from the Middle East to South-Eastern Asia . |
| 22 | They have frozen child benefit for three years so that mothers and families are nearly £1 billion worse off than they would otherwise have been . |
| 23 | But both authors recognise that experience in office in the coalition government had made the Labour leaders more cautious than they would otherwise have been : Dr Marwick comments that ‘ Middle-class radicalism and official trade unionism were much stronger influences than left-wing Socialism ’ , and Dr Addison speaks of an ‘ Attlee consensus ’ to which the Conservatives , when they returned to office in 1951 , also subscribed . |
| 24 | On the other hand , the charting options within the spreadsheet function in Works are robust and simple to operate , with the result that graphics for analysis of publication data are much better than they would otherwise have been . |
| 25 | They accept that their work is less technical than they would perhaps like , but ‘ craftsmanship ’ is still possible in accurate diagnosis and illness management ( Freidson 1975 ) . |
| 26 | Millions of British motorists are driving cars more plush than they would ever choose to own were they handed the extra money and told to spend it themselves . |
| 27 | It seems that people tend to be more demanding of themselves than they would ever let management be . |
| 28 | In that year , Haringey 's Labour councillors learned more about heterosexism than they would ever have believed possible , and they have become far more articulate in their defence of lesbian and gay rights than they were at the time of their election . |
| 29 | Various modern human activities ensure , however , that many ecosystems are assaulted with more nutrient than they can properly deal with . |
| 30 | When writing a history essay , most people have more facts or knowledge available than they can conveniently use . |