Example sentences of "than they would have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In their struggle to gain control of the wool tax the commons arguably gained more by agreeing to grant the tax and receiving in return concessions on free trade in wool than they would have achieved by seeking to abolish the tax . |
| 2 | As Philip Warner has said in The Special Air Service , the official history re-issued in an expanded edition in 1983 , the regiment ‘ has often been criticised for the high proportion of officers and N.C.O.s , as well as first-class men , which it absorbed , and the answer must invariably be that used in this way they caused far more damage to the enemy than they would have done if they had been with other units . |
| 3 | Boris Saltykov , the minister of science , believes that Soros 's commitment has spurred Western governments into doing more than they would have done otherwise . |
| 4 | She watched the keys fall , noting that they fell more slowly than they would have done on the Earth . |
| 5 | They too tend to work very hard , harder than they would have done at school , and get good results . |
| 6 | But they have learned far more about morality this way than they would have done if they had been stopped from making their threats . |
| 7 | Hence a depressed person may well remember their childhood as considerably less happy than they would have done if asked the same questions before the onset of their current depressive symptoms . |
| 8 | They could increase their holdings of capital , by charging more in depreciation than they would have charged in principal repayments . |
| 9 | And I certainly think that they felt more comfortable coming to our flat , than they would have felt coming to a big private house somewhere |
| 10 | Unfortunately for Tory Anglicans , things got out of hand , and they had to concede much more than they would have wanted ( most obviously on the central issue of the transfer of the Crown ) . |
| 11 | Well that 's true erm and indeed , erm there is nothing we do which erm requires universities to erm to do anything other than they would have wanted to anyway . |
| 12 | After confiscating their musical instruments , the police allowed them to proceed and they went on to parade — much more quietly than they would have liked . |
| 13 | Although the British offered assurances that they would still work towards freer trade relations as circumstances permitted , the multilateralists in Washington had been compelled to settle for much less than they would have liked . |
| 14 | As far as temperature went , the cut-off point was 6°C — when the temperature was below this no bats at all were detected , presumably because they would have needed to use more energy keeping warm than they would have got from the relatively few insects available for food . |
| 15 | There were also financial losses to the British Electricity Authority from having to operate old and inefficient plant for more extended periods than they would have chosen in normal times : in the early 1950s the extra cost of burning scarce coal inefficiently was reckoned at £3½ millions a year at the low official coal prices of the time , though the real resource cost was somewhat higher than this . |
| 16 | The consequence of this ( and the unpredictable timing of death ) is that individuals may leave more to their heirs than they would have left had there been perfect markets . |
| 17 | and of course her mum moved to Cornwall and Deborah bought the house of off her , a bit cheaper than they would have bought on the they moved down to Cornwall and they bought a much smaller house , much , much smaller . |
| 18 | It , it 's fairly effective ; seventy per cent of people exposed to the virus who have been vaccinated , get no attack at all , and thirty per cent get a much milder attack than , than they would have expected . |
| 19 | For the reformers ' vision of a fully-developed hierarchy , each man with his own sphere of competence , all subject to canon law and all beneath the discipline of the papal rod , evoked a mixture of admiration and envy in those laymen , accustomed to deference , whose position in the ecclesiastical scheme was lower than they would have wished . |
| 20 | Although the extra representation for zemstva did not arise out of St Petersburg 's enthusiasm for local government ( but out of the determination of central agencies to prevent any one of their number dominating the rest ) , it nevertheless ensured " a large dose of decentralization " in primary education and gave primary schools a better chance than they would have had otherwise . |