Example sentences of "[subord] they would be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They can be more selfless , more public spirited , more erm idealistic than they would be on their own , because the super ego can presumably erm influence the ego in both directions , it can make the ego erm transcend itself as it were to higher ideals and like someone sometimes sees this in , in group behaviour , but equally of course it can erm debase the ego by setting lower standards than the ego would normally accepted itself . |
| 2 | Overheads ( rent , rates etc ) are usually lower than they would be in a town centre , where sites are expensive |
| 3 | Goods are bought in bulk ; and prices are often lower than they would be in a department store or High Street shop . |
| 4 | And now that they 've retired on half pension , they 're a damn sight better off than they would be in Sydney or Auckland , let alone London . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Inevitably , the care staff helping them are supervised to a much lesser degree than they would be in a residential establishment . ’ |
| 6 | It will tend to mean retailers will keep prices lower than they would be in the absence of rivals . |
| 7 | They also mean that lending rates , due to the higher cost must be higher and deposit rates must be lower than they would be in the Euromarkets . |
| 8 | I asked the Czech manager if they would be at Rutland Water in June and he said they would not be able to afford it . |
| 9 | I came across these two booklets on confirmation and wondered if they would be of interest to either you or Paul . |
| 10 | Those would assess if they would be among the winners and losers from the reform of a tax system which Mr Lamont said was starting to appear increasingly anachronistic . |
| 11 | Servette qualified for the UEFA Cup by finishing fourth in the Swiss League but last November it looked like they would be in the Champions ' Cup . |
| 12 | I decided to spend three nights watching the Peckoltias when they would be at their most active to gauge the aggression that — during the day — I did not see . |
| 13 | In the short term it was in their interest to co-operate with the rest of the council , and the real test of their ambitions would come after the coronation , when they would be in a position to exploit their closeness to the new king . |
| 14 | In the short term it was in their interest to co-operate with the rest of the council , and the real test of their ambitions would come after the coronation , when they would be in a position to exploit their closeness to the new king . |
| 15 | If D set out to trick V into having sex , realising that she probably would not consent otherwise , are not his intention and his method sufficient to condemn him for rape , as they would be for obtaining property by deception ? |
| 16 | On the front of the astrolabe there was a thin plate ( the tympan ) on which was engraved a stereographic projection of the lines of altitude and azimuth ( angular distance along the horizon ) as they would be for an observer at a given latitude . |
| 17 | Bentham was also clear what the Panopticon would mean for those who had to occupy it , subjected as they would be to " … an authority so much exceeding anything that has hitherto signified as despotic " ( Works , IV p 63 , emphasis in original ) . |
| 18 | As a couple , they appear as ‘ babes in the wood ’ , helpless and hopeless together as they would be on their own , beset by the awfulness of everyone else . |
| 19 | Claims to privilege are the same as they would be on ordinary discovery . |
| 20 | Where a number of service points are involved — as they would be in a centrally organized stock revision for a public library authority — the choice of locations for titles ordered is an additional complication . |
| 21 | It has been known , but parents who do such a thing are as disliked as they would be in any society , and such marriages are often barren . |
| 22 | Travellers are often forced to live in exposed public situations where social inequality and harsh conditions are not hidden from more affluent members of society as they would be in an outlying council estate or an inner city back street . |
| 23 | This means that at any frequency , sound waves in water are nearly five times as long as they would be in air , and so provide poorer resolution . |
| 24 | When the Liberals were defeated , as they would be in due course , it would be they , and not the Labour Party , who would take the Opposition front bench . |
| 25 | Boullee was the architect of the sublime , and he said that there should be poetry in architecture , and that men should be moved emotionally by it as they would be by a poem . |