Example sentences of "[verb] than can be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More hostility exists than can be accounted for on political and economic theories of the Marxist type . |
| 2 | Only a few marine biological resources are capable of massive exploitation , but these generally require more capital to develop than can be generated locally . |
| 3 | There is after all more to research than can be seen from the tables , and the researcher in interpreting his [ sic ] results is inevitably — and rightly — influenced by all that has gone before , by his acquaintance with the raw material behind the figures and by his own judgement … |
| 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 | Double or treble sub-letting of the work may occasionally occur either as a deliberate policy of the sub-contractor , or where more work is acquired than can be coped with . |