Example sentences of "than [pers pn] [modal v] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | PAMELA : [ aside ] I have a little tincture of jealousy too , which has made me more uneasy than I ought to be , particularly in the case of Miss Sally Godfrey and my fears of what might happen when we reach London . |
| 2 | I do n't care , Morrissey is still wonderful and I still love him as much , if not more than I used to . |
| 3 | Now , I treat athletics more as a hobby than I used to . ’ |
| 4 | I suppose it 's something to do with me being happy , being married , knowing where I am : I can see things more clearly now than I used to . |
| 5 | BELVILLE : I have had the mortification for some weeks past to come home to a very different Pamela than I used to . |
| 6 | I get to places much quicker than I used to : places like the far end of the room . |
| 7 | But if anybody has got a real problem I get more emotionally involved than I used to . |
| 8 | I still miss my favourite sister , who died over twenty years ago , but of course I think of her much less than I used to . |
| 9 | Less than I used to . |
| 10 | She 's obviously a slag , no better than she ought to be . ’ |
| 11 | She was more relaxed than she used to be but still , in Dexter 's view , judged herself too harshly . |
| 12 | But Anya 's a better judge of character than she used to be , back in the old homeland . |
| 13 | She was more tired than she used to be , that was all . |
| 14 | I 'm going to adopt the editorial " we " and you may then pay more attention than you would to the burblings of a recent graduate . |
| 15 | If your eyes are always on your party political opponent , or ministerial colleague and rival , you may be paying less attention than you ought to what Hollywood , IBM and Fujitsu are doing . |
| 16 | 49% of you are more afraid of driving alone in the dark than you used to be . |
| 17 | ‘ You 're much more sensible than you used to be , but your mum ca n't see it , and my mum still thinks I 'm three and a half . ’ |
| 18 | I do n't think Gemma eats as well as these two do , she 's ever so finicky worse than you used to be . |
| 19 | Get one more go than you used to now you get one left . |
| 20 | Indeed , if we want a puritan poet at that time , we would do far better to turn to that good , upright Anglican priest George Herbert , than we would to John Milton . |
| 21 | Even more concerned than we ought to be |
| 22 | It 's also tied to the fact that were , we have less money than we used to because of the introduction of Poll Tax , it is tied to that cos we are constrained but , erm that 's the kind of thing that we get brought into to support , erm and then another area is progressing policy initiative 's in other Council departments . |
| 23 | We 're more conscious of these things than we used to be , before . |
| 24 | Firstly , we are , we 're trying to ensure that wherever possible , children do n't come into care , and we 're spending a lot more money than we used to in keeping out of care ; helping families etc . |
| 25 | Though we feel ourselves to be much more comfortable now than we used to be , there has been very little increase in domestic fuel demand over fifty years or more . |
| 26 | Treasure Trove laws do not apply to fossils any more than they would to a lump of raw gold or a precious stone imbedded in rock . |
| 27 | In consequence , European collaboration is fraught and costly : operational requirements are made more complex than they ought to be by the need for compromise ; sharing development leads to mismatches of components that have to be corrected late on in programmes ; and divided production and assembly increases overheads and puts up costs . |
| 28 | My only qualm is that the final answer ( any shape , but get the size right ) is a bit of an anticlimax and , despite the author 's deftly misdirecting hand , those with a feeling for scale-changes will spot it sooner than they ought to . |
| 29 | Because our lord the king had great zeal and desire to redress the state of the realm in such things as required amendment for the common profit of Holy Church and of the realm ; and because the state of Holy Church had been evil kept and the prelates and religious persons of the land grieved many ways , and the people otherwise entreated than they ought to be , and the peace less kept , and the laws less used , and the offenders less punished than they ought to be . |
| 30 | Because our lord the king had great zeal and desire to redress the state of the realm in such things as required amendment for the common profit of Holy Church and of the realm ; and because the state of Holy Church had been evil kept and the prelates and religious persons of the land grieved many ways , and the people otherwise entreated than they ought to be , and the peace less kept , and the laws less used , and the offenders less punished than they ought to be . |