Example sentences of "than would [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The look the two men exchanged spoke more volumes than would fit into any book . |
| 2 | Indeed , use of organic adhesives in metalwork may have been more common than would appear from the surviving archaeological record . |
| 3 | I guarantee that if one were to sit down , go back to basics , and argue through the parameters as suggested exclusively by the score , and not from one 's aural knowledge of the record catalogue ( and that hoary old chestnut , a ‘ classic ’ version ) , one would encounter a far greater consensus of opinion than would appear initially to be the case . |
| 4 | However , I pointed out that what I was asking for was no more than would comprise a normal police station in a provincial town and that there were many economies to be made by giving up our offices in central London . |
| 5 | More daughters than would admit it hate their mothers . ’ |
| 6 | This led to a vast number of prosecutions , usually in the magistrates ' court , because the authorities were quite careful about alleging that less damage had occurred than would give the protesters the option of having a jury trial , something for which most of them would have very happily volunteered . |
| 7 | If the difference is real , however , it could be that one of the effects of the project involvement was to alert other service-providers to any need for institutional care at an earlier stage than would occur for those in the control sample . |
| 8 | Because of the scale of its command over resources , the government can spread its risks over many projects and so is justified in undertaking more investment in research and development than would occur if left to the private sector . |
| 9 | Lump-sum grants from a central government stimulate greater local authority spending than would occur as a result of an equivalent cut in taxes by a central government . |
| 10 | Companies take full advantage of the cheaper labour available from such countries and easily attract Asian workers to the Middle East by paying salaries which are in general higher than the worker could hope to earn in his own country but , of course , much lower than would pertain in , say , Western Europe . |
| 11 | ‘ Better ’ results will ensue from a ‘ contest ’ between partisan advocates , than would follow if the decision were to be reached by an allegedly unbiased administrator completing a comprehensive survey . |
| 12 | These small islands , usually no bigger than would take a house , are connected to the shore by a pavement which is under water when the loch is at normal level , and often the base of the island is reinforced with slabs of stone . |
| 13 | Mrs Thatcher 's veto against putting the pound in the ERM has obliged Mr Lawson to set interest rates higher than would have been otherwise necessary to sustain sterling and , some economists think , to beat inflation . |
| 14 | For a given outlay of local currency it has ensured a higher value of imports than would have been available under a market valuation of the currency . |
| 15 | Mr Jack Meredith , chairman of the AMA 's public transport committee , said that while bus patronage was declining prior to deregulation , the Tyson report showed that the fall in journeys was between 100 and 200 million more than would have been expected . |
| 16 | THE national championships begin in Newcastle today with Martine Le Moignan , the world champion , and Del Harris , the England No.1 , defending their British titles in far less confident mood than would have been the case a few months ago . |
| 17 | The name CIA is now synonymous with everything that is corrupt and has certainly turned more people towards Communism than would have been the case had American foreign policy been more open and honest . |
| 18 | It seems likely that the masonry of the chimney 's lower section came from either a demolished house or another mill , as the quality of workmanship is of a higher standard than would have been strictly necessary . |
| 19 | In some ways sculptors became more adventurous , creating figures of larger scale and with more expansive poses than would have been tried in the first century . |
| 20 | So although the absence of key workers in Newham meant that there were few boundary disputes , it also meant that the development officer could become very closely involved in organising other services , and perhaps feel that other services took advantage of the Home Support Project and showed less involvement than would have been necessary without the project . |
| 21 | However , many clients were supported by the scheme , and it is only through comparison with the control sample that one can determine whether or not the project was successful in sustaining them at home for a longer period of time than would have been the case without it . |
| 22 | Since many of the concessions within Freeports can be obtained anywhere through clawbacks and concessions , it is hard to see what activity will be forthcoming , other than would have occurred in any case . |
| 23 | This is about 10 more , she says , than would have been expected From the whole 8000 servicemen who , she says , took part in the South Pacific tests between 1957 and 1958 . |
| 24 | ‘ Cardinal Stuart , ’ wrote the British minister in Florence to Horace Walpole , ‘ by putting on the cowle [ i.e. cardinal 's hat ] has done more to extinguish his party than would have been effected by putting to death many thousand of deluded followers . ’ |
| 25 | By 1988 interim results indicated that around 10 per cent fewer accidents occurred than would have been expected without the schemes . |
| 26 | Many more lesbians and gays were openly involved in their local Labour parties than would have been the case even five years previously , and they ensured that the Labour manifestos in the 1986 council elections included commitments to lesbian and gay work . |
| 27 | Polarisation tended to occur more on simpler machines , which could be programmed off the shop floor and operated by those with less skill than would have been required for conventional machines doing work of that complexity . |
| 28 | It was placed a little further forward along the wall of the building than would have been selected by a novice and apparently with a knowledge of the positions of the interior walls . |
| 29 | In any case , lest anyone think the Royal Society of Chemistry had pandered to Elena Ceauşescu 's vanity , he assured the public that ‘ the fellowship was presented at a ceremony no grander than would have been arranged for any other spouse of a head of state . ’ |
| 30 | Even so this sequence of events is very unlikely to happen and occurs some million times slower than would have been the case if there were neutrons there to start with . |