Example sentences of "than we [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is as we know going to be grandly opening , it has cost more than we anticipated as Bill 's probably said , we found out we had to put the foundations on a raft , because er , |
| 2 | It seems that our pursuit of happiness is proving to be much more radical than we bargained for . |
| 3 | Without commitment faith seems to cost more than we bargained for . |
| 4 | ‘ I found more than we bargained for — including that policewoman Hampton . ’ |
| 5 | but now this last few years we , it 's a lot warmer winter than we , than we remember at the beginning |
| 6 | After the visit Avice said that " finding a solution will take longer than we thought at the end of last year " . |
| 7 | ‘ This is a much 'appier Christmas than we thought for . |
| 8 | While the provisional agreement reached in the July 1992 ECOFIN was better than we feared at one juncture , it still marks a worsening in our relative position . |
| 9 | Will my right hon. Friend confirm that we in Britain import more agricultural produce from France than we export to France ? |
| 10 | After the victory at the sea the triumph song , but hardly have the last notes escaped Israel 's lips than we come to the second story of complaint ( 15.22–7 ) . |
| 11 | We have even 1,500,000 fewer children than we had at the time of the Boer War … . |
| 12 | We have got a lot more space here than we had at Alton General . ’ |
| 13 | Derek Hampson , assistant manager of the RSPCA home , said : ‘ The dog was much older than we had at first been informed and he was very sick . |
| 14 | ‘ I know people have a different attitude to things now than we had before the war , but you and Chris are still the same sort of people . |
| 15 | That 's a great philosophy and fortunately we 've got the luxury of having a little more time now than we had in the early days . |
| 16 | Young girls have so much more freedom than we had in my day . |
| 17 | ‘ Ferguson will give us more threat up front than we had in the cup tie , when our performance , particularly in the second half , was shocking . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ No sooner had everyone recovered from the trauma of having to reschedule the full-length play festival than we heard about Portadown . |
| 19 | ‘ I think it might even be further away than we came on the Long Drive , ’ said Masklin quietly . |
| 20 | The inward Life Force , surrounded by innumerable sheaths and finally by a patterning of the subtle physical tattwas , creates a form or body of the same essential patterning , which is most wonderfully intricate , dynamic and complex , far more than we observe in a stone , in water or in the relatively simple molecular structure of the air . |
| 21 | Man knew more about the landscape of the moon before the first landing than we know about ‘ afterlife ’ . |
| 22 | So it 's just not true that we know less about what 's going on than we know about our own beliefs about what 's going on . |
| 23 | ‘ Perhaps you 've been an even naughtier boy than we know about . ’ |
| 24 | We will know by the first of April this year rather more than we know at the moment but you 're right it can go up and down , but there are lots of budgets in Social Services which are subject to this and it 's part of our job to try and manage that during the course of the year . |
| 25 | We we well we 'd love to be able to get get on with our job and er wi with far less interference than we receive at the moment but er when government insists on er on interfering to the extent it does an and there have been well I 've been reading recently so something like five hundred new powers the Education Secretary has given himself in the in over the last last few years . |
| 26 | This year we are paying into the Common Market budget about £2.5 billion more than we receive in order to subsidise richer countries . |
| 27 | For example , we walk less than we used to as most families have cars and the launderette or the washing machine has replaced the scrubbing board . |
| 28 | We may accept lower terms than we want for a job or a project , and in undervaluing ourselves we become less powerful in the eyes of others . |
| 29 | We feel differently about our parents when we are children than we do as adults , and while this may not alter our recollections of everyday family life , it will affect what we choose to highlight , and how we sum up our relationship with them . |
| 30 | Many of us place more value on action , decisiveness and ‘ pulling ourselves together ’ than we do on contemplation and reflection in solitude . |