Example sentences of "than [pron] [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 | ‘ Hmmnn , more bruising than there ought to be . |
| 27 | The magic solution has lost its power — although if you want another performance just re-heat and re-cool the beaker … to be supersaturated means to have more dissolved than there ought to be … the cold supersaturated solution almost literally did not know what to do . |
| 28 | This means that at a time of crisis , such as death , there are fewer people to turn to than there used to be when it was the norm to live much nearer to kinfolk . |
| 29 | There were more of them than there used to be , he was sure of it . |
| 30 | Yet ( while there are more lifers than there used to be ) most of them have a great deal to lose . |