Example sentences of "than it [vb mod] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | No cleverer than it ought to be |
| 2 | I will be arguing in this address that we have been as guilty as many other sections of our community in treating it too lightly , or in putting it lower down in our order of priorities than it ought to be ; but it has never been entirely absent from Christian thought or theology . |
| 3 | There were plenty of vile smells , and the train was colder than it ought to be . |
| 4 | And although a green glow that is weaker than it ought to be might mean that some of the cells in the area are turning malignant , it might also mean that the operator has the end of the bronchoscope too far from the target , or pointing at an awkward angle . |
| 5 | Well , in my sums that comes to er , something like er , fifty per cent more than it ought to be . |
| 6 | That 's a factor of something like three hundred per cent than it , than it ought to be in terms of inflation and the County Treasurer 's budget of plus five per cent which is well in excess of two hundred per cent . |
| 7 | There is no doubt in Sir Adrian 's mind that it is more demanding today being a top executive than it used to be . |
| 8 | Medical treatment for hay fever is now much better than it used to be . |
| 9 | The information will become known a bit faster than it used to be . |
| 10 | I do not think it can be said that the manner of death is any more horrific than it used to be ( although it may well be different ) but it may be that the way of reporting someone 's death has radically changed and that this has brought its own problems . |
| 11 | As ever , the men look more impressive than the women , but the difference is less marked than it used to be . |
| 12 | Other establishments followed their example , with the result that Jerusalem is a less cheerless city than it used to be . |
| 13 | It also has to be recognised that the general educational standard of aspiring architects is much lower than it used to be . |
| 14 | Chancroid is generally less common than it used to be , and is very rarely seen in Northern Europe , although it still poses problems in Asia and parts of Africa . |
| 15 | But JPL is still associated with Caltech , and acceptance of classified research at US universities is much less ready now than it used to be . |
| 16 | But Chris Smith sums up the make-or-break situation of the market in turmoil : ‘ The low end of the market is thinner than it used to be , and the other buyers do n't want to mess around with scrapyards . ’ |
| 17 | Each of these three events involved the legal process or changes in the law , and as such inevitably make the censorship issue in libraries less localized than it used to be even after the Obscene Publications Act of 1959 . |
| 18 | Although there is much social and occupational mobility , and our choice of marriage partner is wider than it used to be , we are obviously most likely to meet and continue acquaintance with people used to similar standards of living , values and expectations . |
| 19 | The population as a whole is about 10 per cent fatter than it used to be . |
| 20 | Because in recent years hypnosis has tended to leave behind its mystical and Svengali-related image — and also because complementary medicine in general is far more widely accepted than it used to be — many people are less worried about the whole concept than before . |
| 21 | I am still very critical of my own shape but I console myself with the fact that while it is far from perfect , it is better than it used to be . |
| 22 | The only problem is that it is messy and somewhat smelly , though much less so than it used to be . |
| 23 | The political limitations of the approach , in particular its inability to deal with differences between women , have made it less powerful than it used to be . |
| 24 | It 's happy with the amount of convergence they have managed to get , saying that it 's a lot easier now to agree than it used to be , pointing to the significance of the networking and X-Windows commonality the new ABI implies . |
| 25 | I think the risk of a fake making the rounds today is much much less than it used to be . |
| 26 | If religion is less significant than it used to be in modern societies , it may be that the emotional issues are resolved too , or that they have found other modes of expression , in the arts and entertainments , and in political movements . |
| 27 | The use of eye and brow liners is now more refined and less obvious than it used to be , but is nevertheless emerging as an important element in even the most natural looks . |
| 28 | However , this is much less widespread than it used to be and two surgeons from Guys Hospital in London and Withington Hospital in Manchester believe this is a mistake . |
| 29 | It is very much commoner , everywhere , than it used to be — Central and Northern European populations have increased two- , three- or even fourfold . |
| 30 | While " the university is now immensely more important in the education of the nation than it used to be " , |