Example sentences of "than [pron] would have expect " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was less sympathetic than I would have expected , but I am sure that he will send her home if she is unwell . ’ |
| 2 | Miss LaMotte spoke more forcefully than I would have expected : she is surprisingly handsome when animated . |
| 3 | I find it boring , it 's not particularly useful — it 's very academic , more so than I would have expected it to be . |
| 4 | Emily was altogether more cheerful than I would have expected from her circumstances . |
| 5 | If the hon. Member for Fife , Central dislikes the idea of reviews , it suggests that his attitude to public expenditure is less rigorous than I would have expected . |
| 6 | There were more wreaths than she would have expected and the flowers were already wilting in the merciless sun . |
| 7 | It was not a big watch but the noise it made was much bigger than you would have expected . |
| 8 | With careful thought and the application of ruthless logic , it may be possible to establish a much larger claim than you would have expected . |
| 9 | They were a kindly couple , rather older than one would have expected , although there had always been a suggestion of old-fashionedness about Dorothy as a child . |
| 10 | The creature looked wilder and woollier than any I 've met in seas round about , its suckered and flock-piled textures giving more chew and less taste than one would have expected . |
| 11 | For example , they lived very much longer than one would have expected , and Gellmann said well these were strange particles and he invented a new quantum number called a strangeness , and then he assumed that this strangeness quantum number was not quite conserved. erm we have conserved quantum numbers in physics like the charge — you have to conserve the charge , but you do n't quite have to conserve the strangeness . |
| 12 | Suspension noise is well contained , too , and while there 's a little more tyre and wind noise than we would have expected , the Safrane still shines in this category and makes a particularly quiet and refined motorway cruiser . |
| 13 | This approximation is shown by the dashed horizontal line in Fig. 2 b , and it agrees with the numerical results significantly better than we would have expected . |
| 14 | It , it 's fairly effective ; seventy per cent of people exposed to the virus who have been vaccinated , get no attack at all , and thirty per cent get a much milder attack than , than they would have expected . |
| 15 | She faced her anger at being abandoned at an earlier age than anyone would have expected , and talked about loneliness . |
| 16 | His head was growing heavy , he would ask for some coffee when the waiter returned ; it was dark indoors , darker than he would have expected on a showery early summer afternoon , when the sun outside does not dazzle . |