Example sentences of "[adj -er] [subord] [vb mod] be [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in inner-city areas , car ownership is lower than would be expected on the basis of affluence , given both the very small average household size and the better availability of public transport . |
| 2 | The performance of cast iron in fire is better than might be expected by those who have some knowledge of the dramatic reaction of steel structures to fire . |
| 3 | Cutting ability of the trimmer is better than would be expected of a cordless machine . |
| 4 | He survived the experience , albeit somewhat bruised , which is better than can be said for his predecessor as a social security minister , Ray Whitney . |
| 5 | When we recognise that for the three Near Eastern traditions there is a clear emphasis upon God 's presence as well as His transcendence , their approach is seen to be closer than might be imagined to that of the Indian religious traditions . |
| 6 | During 1963–83 and 1984–90 the incidence of malignant disease , particularly lymphoid leukaemia and non-Hodgkin lymphomas , in young people aged 0–24 in Seascale was higher than would be expected on the basis of either national rates or those for the surrounding areas . |
| 7 | Water also has a melting point and a boiling point much higher than would be expected from its formula and it becomes more fluid with increasing temperature . |
| 8 | For example , theory shows that financing a service by an annually-negotiated budget will result in a higher level of provision of the service than would be socially optimal , and higher than would be provided by financing through charges to the user . |
| 9 | a company 's growth expectations are higher than can be met from growth in the domestic market . |
| 10 | In general , salaries are no higher than can be expected in England , and the cost of living ( coupled with health insurance costs ) may actually be prohibitively expensive in many areas ; people still have to work , and bills still have to be paid . |
| 11 | Some of their arguments , such as that their professional standards were higher than could be maintained by law — as envisaged in the legislation — had a ring of truth to them . |
| 12 | The timescale over which significant improvement might be detected is , in any case , likely to be far longer than could be detected by comparing one typical generation with its predecessor . |
| 13 | In the investigators ' recent research into subjective response to road traffic noise , it has been shown that when there is an abrupt increase or decrease in noise exposure , the change in people 's dissatisfaction with noise is greater than would be predicted from the change in noise level . |
| 14 | The variance of validity coefficients found in earlier studies was shown to be no greater than would be expected by chance . |
| 15 | A comparison of the 52 estimates of annual lampsilis growth that were with the 247 estimates of measurement error shows that shell shrinkage is much greater than would be expected from measurement errors alone ( n=299 , P<0.0001 ) . |
| 16 | In 1976 , despite coverage a hundred times greater than can be achieved by conventional flash photography ( which is limited by back scatter ) , no results were achieved in three months of work . |
| 17 | The annual kill is thought to be far greater than could be replaced by the harbour porpoise 's slow rate of reproduction . |
| 18 | What all the " finishing " processes had in common , apart from a degree of exertion greater than was needed for hand-setting but not necessarily greater than could be expected from a normal young woman , was that these were tasks an apprentice learned only towards the end of his time . |
| 19 | Doyle and Nixon had found that the toxicological activity of the mussel extracts in the rat bioassay was greater than could be accounted for by okadaic acid alone . |
| 20 | Clearly , the excretion of the neutrophils is considerably greater than could be accounted for simply by bleeding . |