Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , the peasantry were proving more acquiescent than had been expected , and the government was responding to the financial concern of the nobility with a variety of measures including plans to establish provincial banks . |
| 2 | She spoke and understood more English than had at first appeared but it seemed to be English she had got from the Kettering children , so she was easily understood by Jacqueline who would run to her , climb on to her lap , whenever the maid sat down for a moment and stay there silent and apparently overawed . |
| 3 | The transition was then less abrupt than has since become the habit . |
| 4 | The Committee has pointed out that nothing is more foolish than to have timetable motions introduced after a Committee has sat for some sessions , perhaps debating the first two or three clauses of a Bill , and then , the guilloting having been introduced , the rest of the Bill — perhaps 60 , 70 or 80 clauses — is rushed through with hardly any debate . |
| 5 | The project ran into difficulties when we discovered that the forms of ‘ collaboration ’ being developed in the classrooms observed were more all pervasive yet apparently less structured and organised than had been anticipated . |
| 6 | The effects of evacuation were perceived in terms of social pathology , so that although evacuation was pronounced less harmful than had been feared the effect of the analysis was to see the normal development of children as problematic , and to emphasise the compensatory role of agencies outside the family — school and its directing bodies in particular . |
| 7 | That 's probably more sensible than having people come round to use my phone as well . |
| 8 | The ideal osmotic control for ethanol is distilled water and not hypertonic glucose or saline as has been used in some studies . |
| 9 | There 's nothing as exciting as having a new baby , I keep thinking , as I gaze into other mums ' prams at their new arrivals . |
| 10 | Thus , whilst women who smoke may know that smoking could damage their health , there is no evidence that they experienced smoking as having any immediate impact on their self-perceived strength and fitness . |
| 11 | But I think conductors would not be the answer because what happens when the driver is smoking as has happened to me three times in three weeks . |
| 12 | and it refused it , and it should , the woman did n't obviously did n't know what to do , she was as embarrassed as had to get the manager so by this time Brian has packed all his bags up |
| 13 | This rationalist approach is overtly expressed in Fowler 's statement that ‘ The proper excellence of architecture is that which results from its suitableness to the occasion … and this principle rightly pursued leads to originality without the affection of novelty ; but … the present enlightened epoch in architecture is woefully distinguished as having no character of its own nor any pretensions beyond that of adopting the various styles that have prevailed in all ages and nations without regard to the difference of circumstances upon which they were founded ’ ; while the critic J. C. Loudon [ q.v. ] described him as ‘ one of the few modern architects who belong to the School of Reason and who design buildings on fundamental principles instead of antiquated rules and precedents ’ . |
| 14 | And this development has been the key to such successful innovation in the field of work with the unemployed as has so far been accomplished . |
| 15 | In most postwar elections , more men have voted Labour than have voted Conservative , whereas more women have voted Conservative than have voted Labour . |
| 16 | Very costly business all this , but it 's infinitely preferable than having a severely mentally retarded child . |
| 17 | For example , if the product proves less stable than had been anticipated it may be necessary to shorten the intervals between examinations . |
| 18 | It would be better to operate on the present system and to get that right than to have a discriminatory cow premium . |
| 19 | And yet , since the start of May , there has been reason to think it would have been less bloody than had previously been feared . |
| 20 | This showed conclusively that Thoresby 's contents were far more complete than had previously been realized and , with relatively little rearrangement , could have been put back as they appeared in early photographs . |
| 21 | I , I think that 's again going to be part of it because that is certainly I mean a major reason why er a lot of peasant societies have large families , but we 'd still have to try and explain why it was that in this period , presumably so very much more of those children were surviving than had been the case earlier . |
| 22 | Overall , it appeared by the middle of March that the Gulf environment was proving more resilient than had been feared , but environmentalists cautioned that the full extent of the damage would not be apparent for some time , particularly as the oil sank to the bed of the shallow Gulf , where it would damage vital food plants . |
| 23 | Although the former heads of the two securities houses added little to their previous statements , Tabuchi admitted on Aug. 29 that Nomura 's links with Japan 's organized crime syndicates , which had been revealed in July [ see p. 38342 ] , were currently under investigation and might prove to have been more extensive than had been initially suggested . |
| 24 | Professor Sawyer has argued that many of the small pre-Conquest landowners who appear from Domesday Book to be independent were in fact tenants of lords not named , and thus that lordship may have been more extensive than has sometimes been realised . |
| 25 | Yet the war proved far longer and more destructive than had been generally expected . |
| 26 | There is nothing more infuriating and destructive than having the discussion dominated by those who have not got a proper grasp of the subject because they have failed to read the material provided . |
| 27 | As we shall see in subsequent chapters , the approach they have taken to fundamental freedoms has on a number of important occasions been radically different and altogether more liberal than has been the case here . |
| 28 | THE GASH sustained by Carroll House after he proved himself a cut above the rest of Europe in Sunday 's Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe looked a lot less serious than had been feared when Britain 's new equine hero was examined on his return to Newmarket yesterday , writes John Karter . |
| 29 | It 's quite normal — more serious than having your tooth pulled out , but not much more . |
| 30 | Nothing would be more serious than to have unapproved contractors receiving the grant . |