Example sentences of "than could be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Measures like this gave the colonies a secure market and also provided larger supplies of tropical goods than could be consumed in England , so that English merchants could develop their re-export trade with the rest of the world . |
| 2 | The three performances all attracted more people than could be seated . |
| 3 | Its report published in July last year , The Cost of Care in Hostels , concluded : ‘ Even hostels offering relatively low care were still offering some care , and had to spend more than could be explained simply in terms of the costs of accommodation . ’ |
| 4 | Blake also realised that , although horses have an extensive body language as well , there was still a much greater degree of communication between horses , and between himself and horses , than could be explained by sounds and signs . |
| 5 | Therefore on these occasions you must frame in your mind the idea of some comely youth who pleases you best , whose shadow will create a greater lust than could be raised by a nauseous though real enjoyment . |
| 6 | Hatton , Monk and Nelson were acquitted on of conspiring to defraud Liverpool city council between November 1986 and February 1987 over land leased to Monk as a car park in Manesty 's Lane , Liverpool , allegedly at a value less than could be raised on the open market , without proper competition . |
| 7 | The Ashleys annexed Number 25 , to be used only for selling fabric ( at thirty-five pence per yard ) as the factory was still producing far more than could be made up into garments , while Number 23 was used just for children 's clothes . |
| 8 | Such sites can be useful , however , as a collection of pottery may indicate earlier occupation on a site than could be discerned when it was pasture or a field of unploughed earthworks . |
| 9 | The use of simulation allows the observation of many possible stream patterns , far more than could be observed in the real world . |
| 10 | It serves to emphasize that an STV constituency would include many distinct and disparate localities — more in Britain than in Ireland , and far more than could be covered by parties in the thorough Irish style . |
| 11 | Second , the discovery of mineral resources and the consequent development of metallurgical industries in Transbaikal and the Altai demanded more manpower than could be met from the local populations , and hence acted as a loadstone for the attraction of the necessary personnel to work them , in the form of both voluntary and forced labour . |
| 12 | The may maybe I just comment on that that last that last point , which as I understand it it the the justification for a new settlement is brought about solely by increasing the requirement for Greater York to twelve thousand seven hundred , going through those figures there seems to me , for instance , for both Ryedale and Selby to be more provision than could be met in a single settlement , I I think the the figures put forward by Barton Willmore are more than can be met in existing allocations and a single new settlement of a reasonable size . |
| 13 | In Scotland and Wales public pressure developed for more independence than could be gained from decentralized administration . |
| 14 | Li Yuan studied them a moment , trying to get the key to their relationship — something more than could be gained from the summaries in the file — then returned to the desk and sat , leaving them standing . |
| 15 | This was far more than could be justified in the straitened circumstances of the time ( and indeed it would have produced a large margin of spare capacity on the actual early 1950s peak demand ) . |
| 16 | It seems likely that it involved the utilisation of the X-rays emitted by the fission bomb trigger to propagate the explosion throughout the charge of thermonuclear fuel ; travelling at the speed of light they could initiate the fusion reaction in all parts of the charge in a time much less than could be achieved by shock waves ( travelling at perhaps 104m/s ) , so that a substantial degree of reaction Could occur before the material was dispersed by the explosion ( New Scientist , 2 September , 1982 , p641 ) . |
| 17 | But the principal argument he produced in favour of ruling indirectly was not that Indirect Rule provided the perfect instrument of intelligent conservation , but that it created the possibility of exercising over the native a far greater degree of control than could be achieved if he were ruled directly . |
| 18 | These have been used for surveys of ruined areas in North Africa with , in the view of the archaeologists , a success rate better than could be achieved by any other aerial platform . |
| 19 | They do this when they believe they can operate more profitably and with greater stability than could be achieved by reliance on the workings of imperfect international markets ( Buckley and Casson , 1985 ) . |
| 20 | But 100 years ago , I am sure than many an older mechanical engineer would not have cared to contemplate the day when robots would be able to manufacture engine components to much higher tolerances than could be achieved then . |
| 21 | The act of faith consisted of believing that the visible contained hidden secrets , that to study the visible was to learn something more than could be seen in a glance . |
| 22 | A vindictive hatred of Kit Nubbles for saying that he was ‘ an uglier dwarf than could be seen anywhere for a penny ’ causes Quilp to set on Sampson Brass and his sister falsely to incriminate the boy . |
| 23 | Saroj Lal , director of Lothian Racial Equality Council , said , however , that Mr McNeill 's comments might have caused greater harm than could be offset by an apology . |
| 24 | Seventh Day Adventists were the favoured race skippers — they did n't drink , which was more than could be said for the lighter crews . |
| 25 | He had courage , dignity and class , which was more than could be said of some of his judges . |
| 26 | Which was more than could be said for Mr Gittings , the decorator . |
| 27 | A pleasant , very nearly a respectable , young man , it seemed , which was far more than could be said for the fellow they had put up for Bradford in 1841 , an Irishman of the wilder variety who had served his apprenticeship to the political trade in such select establishments as Northallerton House of Correction and the castle jails of Lancaster and York . |
| 28 | They did not seem to mind , each patting her head and calling out that her hair would soon grow , which was more than could be said for the balding bailiffs escorting them . |
| 29 | Which was more than could be said for Geoff Tulloch . |
| 30 | ‘ Which it would seem is more than could be said for your father 's . ’ |