Example sentences of "than it could [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the case of a planet N is very large and therefore a considerably larger quantity of volatiles can be acquired by the planet by this means than it could acquire by capturing gases directly from the PFM . |
| 2 | It was as if his mind had a finite capacity for lines ; put in more than it could hold and they would start to overflow . |
| 3 | It is common ground that in the year starting September 1991 the school had more applicants for admission than it could accommodate without prejudicing the provision of efficient education . |
| 4 | Delays would increase or decrease , according to whether the court was presented with more or less work than it could handle . |
| 5 | than it could do if there were full employment . |
| 6 | David Mercer joined the editorial board ; so did Mo Teitlebaum , involved in TV , the poet Adrian Mitchell , looking for rather more than It could offer , and Robin Fior , a designer . |
| 7 | You could see that the pain of standing was more than it could bear , and it struggled to be allowed to collapse again but the owners made it walk : led it away stumbling on three legs with the fourth jutting out sideways . |
| 8 | I think at the time the RAF had more volunteers than it could cope with and much weeding out was done , but in his case he blotted his copybook good and proper by doing a bit of unauthorised low flying over a south Devonshire town , frightening all the old ladies . |
| 9 | Duales System Deutschland ( DSD ) , the organization set up by industry to comply with a law requiring manufacturers to recycle packaging , has succeeded in dealing with paper , aliminium and glass , but it collected four times more plastic rubbish than it could cope with . |
| 10 | The plaintiffs ' underlying complaint seems to be that C.M.C. borrowed more than it needed and spent more of the borrowed money than it could afford to spend , with the result that there was a loss for which the plaintiffs have been held personally liable as guarantors . |
| 11 | But I think the club has spent more money than it could afford . |
| 12 | Forensic science had no answer to the question of what happened to the timer after it was supplied to the Libyans by the Swiss , any more than it could say with certainty what happened to the Semtex plastic explosive after that was supplied to the Libyans by the Czechs . |
| 13 | Throughout its existence , London Switchboard has always had more would-be volunteers than it could take on . |
| 14 | In truth , the task was less daunting than it could have been , partly because a considerable number of our sportspersons did not ( Gasp ! ) regularly purchase the magazine and were therefore unlikely to spot the odd line which might interest m'learned friends . |
| 15 | But pilgrimage too is seasonal and not to be marked off too strictly from tourism any more nowadays than it could have been marked off in the great centuries of the sacred trek to Compostela . |
| 16 | Johnson wrote , ‘ We were treated with very liberal hospitality , among a more numerous and elegant company than it could have been supposed easy to collect . ’ |
| 17 | The indignation of the trade union mounts ; there is the threat of a strike ; Government , which fears a strike more than the nationalised undertaking , sounds the call for retreat ; and amid paeans of praise for everybody 's wisdom in choosing the path of peace the claim is settled — more generously than it could have been in the first place ( Aubrey Jones , cited in Bell 1975 : 10 ) . |
| 18 | Doing far more than we can reasonably do and if you like , doing it by very definition , badly , or worse than it could have done . |
| 19 | In consequence , enclosure of arable was now creating more social problems than it could solve . |
| 20 | Armchair strategists reckon that the terms AT&T can demand now for all or part of USL are less than it could get when both Univel and SVR4.2 have proven themselves . |
| 21 | Usthinks the company doth protest too much : despite the fact that the countdown to its flotation has been under way for some weeks now , and Quality Software Products Plc has finally formally announced that ‘ following last week 's successful launch of Universal OLAS ’ it ‘ has decided to begin the process of seeking a listing on the London Stock Exchange , ’ it still says that ‘ no final decision will be taken for some time , ’ making it sound as if the company is signalling frantically that it would prefer to be acquired if only someone would come forward offering more money than it could raise in a public flotation . |
| 22 | At the instant the switch opens , the current through the inductor is at its peak value ; this current can not fall to zero instantaneously any more than it could rise instantaneously , and a back e.m.f. is developed across the inductor to oppose the fall . |