Example sentences of "have been [adv] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had they done that we have little doubt that the tribunal decision would have been otherwise than it was . ’ |
| 2 | See , the other week there , I was on beat duty and this wee nipper , could n't have been more than 6 or 7 , came round the corner and says to me , ‘ Fuck off , ya black bastard . ’ |
| 3 | We knew he was the owner of the club and — while he ca n't have been more than four-foot-nine inches tall — we knew that Soho was run by Maltese gangsters just like him . |
| 4 | The man moved efficiently past a child who had succeeded in entangling her pony 's reins with her feet and who was being blasted for it by a girl who could n't have been more than sixteen , but was sounding like a woman three times her age . |
| 5 | There was , however , no apparent motive , McLeish reminded himself , and he must not let his own uneasy conviction that Angela Morgan would have been more than capable of stirring up strong and complex emotions in those around her cloud his judgement . |
| 6 | He could n't have been more than quarter of an hour having his tea . |
| 7 | It seems to me now that I must have been more than a little simple , because I received a telephone call from the home the very next day . |
| 8 | If the police had not given us the benefit of the doubt , I should have been more than a little proud to go to jail in his company , together with the Cup . |
| 9 | The loser then was Ray Laccohee who might well have been more than a match for Dale overall had he played more competition golf . |
| 10 | This was done without the knowledge of Napoleon III , who was astonished by the amount and , interestingly , remarked that ‘ half of that would have been more than enough ’ . |
| 11 | Peckham 's interest may have been more than academic . |
| 12 | The mother of the two children , a toddler and a baby , could not have been more than twenty . |
| 13 | But every year , and often more than once , he made the pilgrimage to Kidlington in Oxfordshire and on one of those visits ( I can not have been more than eight years old ) took me to Thame and showed me his name on the board as head boy . |
| 14 | ‘ But there must have been more than that , surely ? ’ |
| 15 | In these four years the dinar value of these deposits multiplied by a factor of nearly 10 , and by the end of 1987 this factor must have been more than 20 . |
| 16 | There were a million Müllers in Germany and no doubt a good many Louise Müllers , but of Louise Müllers who were opera singers , and had a sister called Katje , there could hardly have been more than one . |
| 17 | Areas of trapped sediment within these gullies were screened and the bones recovered , but the original position of the scats could not be determined ( Andrews & Evans , 1983 ) , although from the nature of the scat site they could not have been more than 20 metres away . |
| 18 | It could not have been more than three feet deep at the deepest point and as little as six inches in others . |
| 19 | It could n't have been more than fifty yards from the bank . |
| 20 | Mary was holding a tiny fawn , and it could n't have been more than a few days old . |
| 21 | At such close quarters , mistakes would have been more than evident but to the merit of all those involved , these were at a minimum and more than compensated for by sheer enthusiasm . |
| 22 | Karen had done her bit for me and I would have been more than happy to reciprocate . |
| 23 | Susan had nursed him tirelessly , and no one had ever heard her complain ; but she would have been more than human if she had not been thankful that her long and exhausting task had come to an end . |
| 24 | There must have been more than twenty farms , plus the school , the chapel and the Strathmore Arms . |
| 25 | An officer for nearly 40 years , he should have been more than a match for a 24-year-old civilian but the first brush between the two sides , though neither commander was present in person , suggested otherwise . |
| 26 | Wetting the underneath of the saddle with it would have been more than enough to kill the horse . |
| 27 | The smallest insect alive during the Age of Dinosaurs must have been more than a million times smaller than Brontosaurus . |
| 28 | By the tenth century , few South Saxons can have been more than twenty miles from a market place , but these were rarely ‘ towns ’ in any later sense , or even comparable with their Roman predecessors ; Saxon society remained essentially rural , except in its very greatest centres . |
| 29 | And those who could n't afford a half-crown fine , but would rather wait until nightfall to sweep or cause to be swept their bit of pavement , must have been more than grateful that the Trustees would also kindly provide ‘ Lamp Irons or Lamp Posts to be put or affixed into , upon , or against the Walls or Pallisadoes of any of the Houses , Tenements , or Buildings within the said Town , . |
| 30 | Robert Hasted must have been more than usually proud , then , of his daughter Elizabeth 's second son , Robert Titford . |