Example sentences of "than it would have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's £21.46 more than it would have cost you , if you had dined out in the UK . |
| 2 | The future still looks brighter than it would have done without the new plans . |
| 3 | Remarkably , the subsequent behaviour leaves the pulsar rotating more slowly after 50 days than it would have done in the absence of the glitch . |
| 4 | What then of the Government 's claim that it is spending more money in income support than it would have done had the previous supplementary benefit system remained in place ? |
| 5 | In the flurry and excitement you clue will bulk much less large in the reader 's mind than it would have done . |
| 6 | Some alienation provisions contain surrender-back clauses which should be strongly resisted by the tenant , as they lead to uncertainty as to whether the tenant will be permitted to assign the lease to the person of its choosing , and unless carefully worded could result in the tenant obtaining less from the landlord on surrender than it would have done from the assignee . |
| 7 | If the Eastern District was less successful in some respects than it would have liked to be , it was not for want of trying . |
| 8 | In real-time only seconds had passed , not much more time than it would have taken to see if he was in and ask him for a few minutes of his time . |
| 9 | In the judgment of the Vice-Chancellor , at p. 102 , ‘ its purpose is not to put the company in a better position than it would have enjoyed if liquidation or administration had not supervened . ’ |
| 10 | In my judgment its purpose is not to put the company in a better position than it would have enjoyed if liquidation or administration had not supervened . |
| 11 | Possibly a little touch like this has more meaning for us belonging as we do to a mechanical age , than it would have had for our ancestors , who were unaccustomed to the click of an electric switch and its attendant results ! |
| 12 | The advantage to the bank is that it has the use of a deposit for a fixed period , but , because of the flexibility given to the lender , at a slightly lower price than it would have had to pay for a normal time deposit . |
| 13 | He would no more have thought of behaving as Harold Macmillan did in 1962 , and dismissing nearly a half of them as though they were junior executives in an ailing company , than it would have occurred to him to divorce his wife and marry one of his walking companions . |