Example sentences of "than they could [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He no more than they could outgrow , but , cast into one , like iron , |
| 2 | With the need for speedy disposal of the dead — and that organized by others than the coffin-makers — together with a dwindling supply of wood in the face of more work than they could handle , few involved in the trade were going to do more than fabricate a utilitarian box of standard shape . |
| 3 | Northumberland found the strength of British Columbia rather more than they could handle in their final game at Langley , a community on the outskirts of Vancouver . |
| 4 | Even then it piled up far faster than they could analyse it . |
| 5 | It also gives the US companies far greater buying power than they could achieve individually . |
| 6 | Even Samuel Montagu had said the purpose of the Crown Suppliers was to provide for departments more efficiently than they could do it for themselves or from any other source . |
| 7 | Where what you do is take something , that is capable of doing that , and you take something that 's capable of doing that , and you join them together , and between them you get so much more than they could do individually . |
| 8 | Only one of the statutes accords the title of gentleman to landowners of this magnitude , yet it is clear that a great many , if not most of them , laid claim to the style even at the risk of carrying a bigger sail than they could bear . |
| 9 | Indeed , there is a greater likelihood that they could give the names of more researchers in the same field in another country than they could give the names of staff in other disciplines in the same building . |
| 10 | Granting evils in the slave trade and colonial slavery it was none the less argued that government could more easily influence planters and traders through better regulation than they could control the situation on the West African coast . |
| 11 | As it turned out , she was able to tell the experts more than they could tell her . |
| 12 | Had everyone chosen that night to drink more than they could hold ? she had wondered dementedly . |
| 13 | The Greeks found this agnostic approach yielded a sense of presence and bliss that transfigured their lives : it gave them the discipline to apprehend a reality infinitely greater than they could conceive , even though at the same time its absence was acutely felt . |
| 14 | He had just heard the banqueting hall cannons fire , which must mean that the sepoys were attempting an attack from the flank ; he hoped that their attack had not succeeded because he and his men had more than they could cope with already . |
| 15 | Our 1985–6 pilot study suggested that coordinators were having to take on more roles than they could cope with . |
| 16 | All three are already very powerful and know that if they used the Ring for their own purposes , good or otherwise , they would be wielding more power than they could cope with . |
| 17 | Young people with little education but the right connections or boldness could make more money selling goods like watermelons on the street than they could hope to earn after graduation . |
| 18 | Fleischmann and Pons believed that they had produced fusion in their test-tube because when they passed electrical current through it , more heat was produced than they could account for , and in amounts extending over hundreds of hours that seemed to be far in excess of what is possible in a normal chemical reaction . |
| 19 | But our two leaders had bitten off more than they could chew when they tried to make leaders out of the rest of us . |
| 20 | The Selmer/Adams polyester was rock hard , and thick , and many of those who attempted a quick refinish ( thanks Jimi ! ) found they 'd bitten off more than they could chew . |
| 21 | Course they were worried because they they 'd bit off more than they could chew , same as you say about this like you see . |
| 22 | The thing had died , and for its death they could also find no reason … no more than they could find a reason for how it was able to live in the first place . |
| 23 | At high enough temperatures , particles have so much energy that whenever they collide many different particle/antiparticle pairs would be produced — and although some of these particles would annihilate on hitting antiparticles , they would be produced more rapidly than they could annihilate . |
| 24 | ( a ) where the market in the target 's shares is very liquid , offering the market price offers shareholders nothing more than they could get in any event . |
| 25 | The increase will not be matched by dividend rises — too many companies have been paying more than they could afford over the past two years and need to repair their reserves and ratios — but 7 p.c. growth looks reasonable . |
| 26 | ‘ Something could have gone wrong , Perhaps the gang overestimated the prosperity of the family , and demanded more than they could afford to pay . ’ |
| 27 | Whether they were poor because they were lame , or lame because they were poor , was perhaps a matter for sociologists , and a few years later , when their dwellings were swept away and replaced by council flats with rents much higher than they could afford , it must be assumed that they disappeared from the face of the earth . |
| 28 | But the Council 's annual rent of £8,000 was more than they could afford . |
| 29 | The primary reason for this move was not a desire for increased tax revenue , welcome as this no doubt was , but , rather , an expression of the Government 's opposition to people enjoying a larger income when out of work than they could take home in a wage packet . |
| 30 | Would it come through the fields faster than they could run , and hunt them down ? |