Example sentences of "than they had [adv] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | They needed British and West European support more than they had previously been prepared to admit . |
| 2 | In the course of the 1950s , the first signs appeared that the tactics used by Franco since 1936 to stay in power — repression , appeals for unity , apocalyptic visions of Republican " chaos " , and himself as arbiter among fractious regime forces — were less effective than they had previously been . |
| 3 | The bonds linking the brothers ended up stronger than they had ever been . |
| 4 | For a while my self-loathing and judgement of self went deeper than they had ever been in my life . |
| 5 | They were nearer tonight than they had ever been . |
| 6 | She realized she was down from the morph-plus , and that her senses were sharper than they had ever been before . |
| 7 | Nominating procedures were now more open and participatory than they had ever been before . |
| 8 | In consequence the Crown estates were by the time of his death probably larger than they had ever been before . |
| 9 | Franco-Scottish ties were stronger than they had ever been . |
| 10 | There were hints that they too saw signs in our future ; in second year our history teacher told us that things were easier now for Catholics than they had ever been , that we could have a place in the world , that there was even a chance that a Catholic would be President of the United States after the next election . |
| 11 | Richard and Beth were hers at last , the family she had been cruelly denied ; because of love , and guilt and shame , they were closer now than they had ever been . |
| 12 | He went on to repeat the Prime Minister 's bland assurance that , far from experiencing poverty , most students were better off than they had ever been before . |
| 13 | It 's a complete turnaround from last year when reserves were lower than they had ever been recorded , standpipes were in the streets , and some rivers had run dry , notably at Bourton on the Water . |
| 14 | In the debate Lord Holland recognised the dread among the upper classes that the lower orders might be seduced by subversive principles , " particularly afloat at this moment " , but also considered that some masters were taking advantage of this moment to " enforce their views and render their workmen more dependent than they had hitherto been and than in all fairness and equity they ought to be " . |
| 15 | The intuitive explanation for the negative slope of the aggregate demand curve is that a higher price implies , ceteris paribus , a lower real quantity of money in the economy since the real quantity of money is defined to be the nominal quantity of money , M , divided by the general level of prices , P 1 that is M÷P , One way in which people may respond to finding themselves with less real money than they had before is by selling off holdings of bonds to rebuild their holdings of money . |