Example sentences of "[subord] [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is exercised in perception , and the recognition that there is more in what is seen than may meet the casual eye . |
| 2 | The actual burden on most preparers will be rather less than may appear from the disclosure requirements of the FRED , given that it is unusual for a company to have many different kinds of capital instruments in issue and , therefore , in many cases few of the specific disclosures will apply . |
| 3 | The organisation was more complex than may appear from this summary . |
| 4 | Over ninety states have accepted the obligation not to acquire nuclear arms under the 1968 Non-Proliferation Treaty ; although this treaty has not prevented the detonation of a nuclear device by India and the covert acquisition of nuclear capacity also by Israel and South Africa , the total list of nuclear powers is relatively small , and perhaps less than may have been predicted a few years ago . |
| 5 | By this stage , the pursuer 's agents ought to be prepared for Proof and ought , therefore , to be more receptive to arguments concerning actual weaknesses in their case than may have been true at an earlier stage . |
| 6 | Putting this principle into operation was to prove more difficult and contentious than may have been foreseen , and it was to be several more years before the CNAA was to consider changes in practice and begin consultations towards a new balance of ‘ minimum of control ’ with the duties imposed by the Charter . |
| 7 | In any situation where someone has died , it may be assumed that more people are likely to be significantly affected by the death of that one individual than may seem apparent . |
| 8 | In fact , we were beginning to pack the place to the point where the landlord was extremely worried because there were far more people in than should have been . |
| 9 | Fleischmann and Pons worried that the numbers of neutrons that they appeared to be seeing were billions less than should have been the case if their heat data were correct and due to fusion . |
| 10 | This is significantly more than should occur by chance if the true risk were equal to the largest previously observed proportion ( p=0.04 ) . |
| 11 | The overwhelming dominance of the urban areas — in particular , the metropolitan regions around Tokyo , Osaka and Nagoya — in most areas of national life is having a far more devastating effect on village life than might stem just from better employment opportunities . |
| 12 | This insignificant looking page is of much more importance than might appear . |
| 13 | What history will say of his tenure of office is that he had very difficult decisions to make in awkward circumstances and while England 's international team suffered an unimaginable decline most of the 17 first-class counties , his prime concern , flourished more than might have been expected . |
| 14 | The inflation figures , and even pay settlements , have been less awful than might have been expected . |
| 15 | Otherwise , the Commonwealth relationship remained more tranquil under Mrs Thatcher than might have been expected . |
| 16 | Since Bassett 's book was published , biographies of most of the main protagonists have appeared : but , with one exception , they shed much less light on the crisis than might have been imagined . |
| 17 | The Great and Good have proved more resilient than might have been expected . |
| 18 | I feared in Rome I detected a great change for the worse , but she has stood the journey well , better than might have been expected , and now , if all remains serene , we may see her build up again . ’ |
| 19 | A STUDY of baboons in Kenya shows that the old adage ‘ you are what you eat ’ is truer than might have been imagined . |
| 20 | As things turned out , my father 's ordeal proved even worse than might have been predicted . |
| 21 | The processes which keep alive a microbe , a spinach plant , and a human turned out to have more in common than might have been expected . |
| 22 | Beliefs which had become established almost as folk-law , such as the universally harmful effects of too much salt , had less support than might have been expected . |
| 23 | The share of total energy usage accounted for by nuclear power will rise from 4% to 7% , a far lower level of increase than might have been achieved but for the Three Mile Island incident . |
| 24 | Moreover , it is far from clear that the LDDC has managed to obtain anything like the best financial deals in its negotiations with developers : land appears to have been sold at substantially less than might have been achieved , and as the freeholder the LDDC has retained little control of , nor gained any benefit from , subsequent development . |
| 25 | The remaining populace , disillusioned with their rulers and protectors , accordingly greeted the French emperor and his men with less hostility than might have been expected . |
| 26 | It was obvious to them that Danzig , up to the advent of the Nazis , had been far freer from racial strife and entrenched national rivalry than might have been expected in such a complex and explosive economic and political environment . |
| 27 | The casualty rate so far was no more than might have been expected from the hazardous nature of the operation , and although he could not , in all honesty , say he was in command of the whole ship , he at least held the strategic upper hand . |
| 28 | than might have been expected . |
| 29 | The parameters used to select patients for the trial , however , could have indicated several remedies other than Rhus toxicodendron , and the chances of any particular patient responding to the Rhus toxicodendron were little better than might have been expected by chance alone . |
| 30 | But Trafalgar caved in , and its chief executive is leaving the company earlier than might have been expected . |