Example sentences of "than [pers pn] be and " in BNC.
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| 31 | You might agree that it 's wasteful that it 's not the best way of channelling the resources but the fact is that the global amount available because of it is much greater than it was and that will be our baseline to start from if they decide to reorganise the money in a different way . |
| 32 | The ratio of bankers ' balances to deposit liabilities will be smaller than it was and if , as we have now said several times , the original ratio was a desired one , then banks will have to make further adjustments to their balance sheets to restore the ratio . |
| 33 | It did n't hurt , honestly , but it looked worse than it was and Lisabeth sort of saw red . ’ |
| 34 | Gesner had made it better than it was and had carried Ingrid through most of her numbers . |
| 35 | There was an assumption that inflation would be higher than it was and that was cut back to one point five percent , which I think that I would actually support was a sensible way forward . |
| 36 | She is , after all , some years older than he is and inclined to be emotional , hysterical even . ’ |
| 37 | er Derek 's forty four erm year younger than he is and er he 's got he started , he bought a station and er , years ago , and a station master 's office with a garage and all that , you know about twenty years ago and he dealt in tyres . |
| 38 | Well fortunately the Spanish were even more incompetent than he was and what the Spanish commander , instead of rubbing his hands at the prospect of er the damage they were about to wreak , he discovered that they had the wrong calibre shells for their guns and Roosevelt and the Rough Riders overran the Spanish guns a and Teddy Roosevelt became a war hero and on the strength of becoming a war hero , he become vice president of the United States , got the vice presidential nomination and in good American fashion the president was shot er by an assassin er and Teddy Roosevelt became president , so there you are , there 's a there 's a career plan for you to er to think about . |
| 39 | He noticed the change in her behaviour but she was more intelligent than he was and so it never occurred to him she had had an affair . |
| 40 | She said that their body temperature is such and such a million times lower than ours is and that we burn them , literally burn them , if we touch them . |