Example sentences of "than it [modal v] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The leader takes account of these responses in choosing its output and is able to do better than it would under Cournot reactions there is a ‘ first mover ’ or precommitment advantage . |
| 2 | Mercury 's distance from the Sun , varying from between 29 and 43 million miles , would make the Sun seem three times bigger in the Mercurian sky than it would on Earth . |
| 3 | It looks a lot better on me than it would on you . |
| 4 | Water is eight hundred times as dense as air , and the slightest bump or protuberance on the body can cause drag , more even than it would on a bird or an aeroplane . |
| 5 | That means that the irrelevant suggestions being made by the European Commission for mandatory information for and consultation with employees would bear much more heavily on British business than it would on our major competitors . |
| 6 | He said the council tax bill for expensive properties would be a much smaller percentage of the house value than it would on cheaper housing where the majority of people live . |
| 7 | Expanding output would add more to consumer benefit than it would to production costs or the opportunity cost of the resources used . |
| 8 | An award of damages will no more be denied to a person vulnerable and predisposed to mental illness than it would to the victim of physical injury with an eggshell skull . |
| 9 | Being told in a spiteful , truculent way that you 're not perfect rings louder bells for you than it would for most . |
| 10 | This , in most cases , is all the protection the company needs , but it will pay much less for it than it would for a standard policy . |
| 11 | A horse that has had no exercise all day is less likely to stand still for the farrier than one that has just been ridden ; and a youngster that has never been ridden out on the road before will be considerably more nervous if it goes alone than it would with a companion . |
| 12 | On the other hand , the marriage does not itself have support from wider society : ‘ There is less pressure for a couple to stay together because their break-up has little impact outside the domestic sphere and causes fewer ripples than it would in a society where kinship is more central to the wider social organization ’ ( Allan , 1985 , p. 104 ) . |
| 13 | It would be false to infer ( any more than it would in comparable modern cases ) that such management made a mockery of the deliberations as a whole . |
| 14 | In particular , unsteadiness may set in at much lower Ra than it would in their absence . |
| 15 | State agencies other then the Ministry of Internal Affairs , furthermore , either had become convinced that the government would run more risks by abandoning reform than it would by continuing with it , or were acquiring ministers whose commitment to change was actually greater than that of their predecessors . |
| 16 | The idea of ‘ accidentally sparkling ’ Champagne is far more plausible than it may at first seem . |
| 17 | ‘ In the mind ’ is therefore a more complex term than it may at first seem . |
| 18 | No cleverer than it ought to be |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | There were plenty of vile smells , and the train was colder than it ought to be . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | You definitely feel all the time that it could go faster than it ought to — it 's a jet fighter rather than an airbus . ’ |
| 23 | Penzias and Wilson were worried when they found that their detector was picking up more noise than it ought to . |
| 24 | Well , in my sums that comes to er , something like er , fifty per cent more than it ought to be . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | In effect , since socialisation is present as part of all social relationships , whether the parties to the relationship are aware of it or not , it is clear that it is a much more subtle , complex and pervasive process than it might at first appear and that we can only properly understand it as an aspect of all human activity . |
| 27 | EMM386 emulates expanded memory , and smartdrv will run much faster in physical extended memory than it will in emulated expanded memory . |
| 28 | Since any comprehensive peace implies a reduction of influence by , and local dependency on , the superpowers , it can not be assumed that either superpower has a strong interest in a genuine peace , unless it is able to derive greater advantage from peace than it can from continued conflict . |
| 29 | For the tiny group of declared nationalists , cultural and linguistic oppression loomed large , far larger than it could for an illiterate peasantry ( although the use of the Ukrainian language had considerable popular support ) . |
| 30 | THE Bank of England remains concerned that underlying inflation is still running at least 2 to 3 per cent higher than it should at this stage of the economic cycle , and repeats its belief that there is no real room for further cuts in interest rates while the pound remains so sensitive , writes Clifford German . |