Example sentences of "than they [modal v] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gifts made prior to the introduction of inheritance tax will not be assessed more harshly than they would under CTT , had it continued . |
| 2 | Under the Government 's proposals , taxpayers in Barnet will pay a lower tax than they paid under the discredited rating system which the Government abolished and they will pay less than they would under the Labour party 's proposals . |
| 3 | I have no doubt that by voting for the Bill and for the Conservatives ' record of achievement the arts will prosper far more than they would under the dogmatic , doctrinaire , interfering and bureaucratic solutions proposed by Labour . |
| 4 | Yes , I think you would find that everywhere people will crowd into especially post-impressionism , which is Van Gogh , etc. , more than they would into an avant-garde exhibition . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , ’ said Milton , ‘ I have to admit that if you 're very old , short-term solutions must carry more weight than they would for the middle-aged . |
| 6 | At low prices , i.e. at large rates of discount , ceteris paribus , holders will be willing to hold more bills than they would at low rates of discount , i.e. at high prices . |
| 7 | In short , they get less than they would with insider trading . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Into the less cerebral atmosphere of a detective novel it is likely , too , that you will find opportunities for scenes of action , and that they will seem less like seized-on injections of pep-up dope than they would amid the logical probings of the puzzle story . |
| 10 | The Russian army team will earn more in the four-day trip to Germany for the European Cup crunch than they would in a month back home . |
| 11 | They may communicate more fully than they would in real life but this is to my advantage as the reader because it increases my relief and my pleasure . |
| 12 | They do n't get much more out of it than they would from reading a James Bond paperback , but it makes them understand a few of the problems the field men face . |
| 13 | But by playing D in a sequence of encounters , both players end up scoring less than they would by cooperating ( because R P ) . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | There 's another public site at Hinksey Hill , which is very new , where they 've settled well , and there is about to be a private site out at Frilford , and that site will allow the Vale to be designated and that means that people who are encamped illegally in laybys and bridleways and grass verges can be moved on much more quickly than they can at the moment erm and if we 're not careful they 'll all be moving into West Oxfordshire . |
| 19 | It is not as efficient as either in their own fields , but performs very much better than they can in a situation where a significant enquiry facility is necessary and where the data is frequently processed sequentially . |
| 20 | Lack of awareness of the world around you , and a mind which has no ideas of its own , will show up to greater disadvantage in direct comparison with your fellow interviewees than they will in a one-to-one interview . |
| 21 | That Arthur 'ad stopped at a pub on 'is way to the church , 'e said 'e needed fortifyin' , and 'im and 'is best man both went in the pub an' stayed there a lot longer than they should of . |
| 22 | Age Concern in Liverpool claims that pensioners are paying up to 40% more than they should for their insurance . |
| 23 | On the whole , drafts carry more weight in practice than they should in theory , simply because they represent the most up-to-date thought . |
| 24 | I think perhaps on the whole people understand that better than they used to . |
| 25 | The scientists who man the climatological observation posts are less cautious than they used to be now that the general theory of climate change has become common property ; government servants are more confident and outspoken ; and , while scepticism remains , no cabinet minister is likely to denounce the theory and the accompanying evidence as hysterical . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , RAF attitudes were changing : the disbandment of Fighter Command and the probable demise of the V Force made pilot seats in transport aircraft more attractive than they used to be . |
| 27 | The columnists on the op-ed pages are more bloody-minded than they used to be , but in its editorials the Times remains the voice of American public policy . |
| 28 | Now some have — and foreign investors , less credulous anyway , are more needed than they used to be . |
| 29 | Inside each brown case waited the empty skull-face , folded flat , with a flappy rubber nose and hard cylindrical snout , though they frightened Dot less now than they used to . |
| 30 | The effect , claims Wren , has been significant : ‘ Staff are using it much more than they used to . ’ |