Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] than have [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The expansiveness came to an end in the middle of 1940 , when he demanded better terms for Cotton Town than had been offered : ‘ The first book did well for you ( for me too , I readily admit ) , and since I may soon be called up , and have a wife and child to support , I should like to leave them as well provided for as possible . ’ |
| 2 | By providing money for so-called buy-back operations , in which countries either bought their own commercial debts back from the banks at deeply discounted levels or , alternatively , simply used the money as collateral when negotiating low-interest bond deals , a number of countries had been able to reschedule their own external obligations on easier repayment terms than had been agreed at the time when they were made . |
| 3 | The presence of current organisations involved in tourism will be necessary , but if the new organisation is to succeed the private sector must be much more actively involved in decision making than has been allowed in the past . |
| 4 | In general , the sale was characterised by more trade bidding than has been evident over the past year , while competitive bidding between private collectors was responsible for the morning 's most surprising result : £21,000 ( $31,500 ; est. £6,000–8,000 ) for Joe Tilson 's ‘ Ziggurat 1967 ’ ( lot 79 ) |
| 5 | Apart from those transmitted from China , medieval inventions included , for example , spectacles for reading , the spinning wheel , stronger iron tools than had been previously available , the heavy plough , and the use of coal as a fuel . |
| 6 | Korpi concludes that workplace bargaining is not more under the control of the central union organs in Swedish manufacturing industry than has been the case with its British counterpart . |
| 7 | Yet the new interdisciplinary approaches , the new stress on enquiry and research , and the increased stress on the teacher in the devising of resource-based approaches , require more flexible , efficient and detailed methods of information retrieval than has been typically the case in schools , or in most academic and public libraries hitherto . |
| 8 | Wherever possible , jobs could be created at localities of most need , but a greater worker mobility than has been displayed in the past should be expected , and where it is not obtained , financial restrictions should be exerted to encourage fit , able but reluctant people to move from the old , worked-out pockets of industry to new opportunities elsewhere . |
| 9 | I just though it was a simple misprint and with one stroke of the pen I changed ‘ otter ’ to ‘ other ’ , thus effecting a rather broader sweep to Party policy than had been intended . |