Example sentences of "than can be [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Space precludes a full account of the APT saga , but briefly stated the purpose of the tilting train is to run through speed-restricted curves in complete safety and without loss of passenger comfort at much higher speeds than can be achieved with conventional rolling stock , enabling journey times to be reduced without recourse to realigning and upgrading existing tracks at prohibitive cost . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It depends upon the weather and the number of visitors at the resorts , and greater flexibility is required than can be provided by simple fixed-term contracts . |
| 5 | Love must be the most beautiful flower than can be cultivated in transcendent garden of the mind . |
| 6 | The response to pruning is a concentrated and redirected burst of growth which will be more readily sustained by good , fertile conditions than can be expected on sandy , barren and infertile soils . |