Example sentences of "than we have " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The vegetation turns out to be more sparse than we had imagined . |
| 2 | Tromsø had no more snow than we had seen in the autumn , but it was colder . |
| 3 | We have even 1,500,000 fewer children than we had at the time of the Boer War … . |
| 4 | Also , we were closer than we had ever been . |
| 5 | We have got a lot more space here than we had at Alton General . ’ |
| 6 | We may find that a particular reply which we had expected to be only given very occasionally looks as if it might well be much more prevalent than we had expected . |
| 7 | We might , for example , find that in a particular residential area there are unexpectedly large numbers of households with ‘ lodgers ’ and so we might want to add this as a specific category in the household composition ; or we might find that on an attitude question views are rather more extreme than we had anticipated and so a new response category could be usefully put in to save us noting responses under ‘ Others , specify … ’ in many cases . |
| 8 | That 's a great philosophy and fortunately we 've got the luxury of having a little more time now than we had in the early days . |
| 9 | It quickly became apparent after the offer had closed that the take-up rate was just 38% — ‘ a lower level of acceptances than we had anticipated ’ and enough for newspapers to call the issue a flop . |
| 10 | It sparked off some very good discussions , far more than we had time to transmit . |
| 11 | The answer was much simpler than we had expected . |
| 12 | So the observations about folk theories of consciousness , though highly interesting , do not in themselves show consciousness to be more impoverished than we had earlier thought , for fictions are as good as fillers of consciousness as are truths . |
| 13 | We found that the walk to Fuglafjell was farther ( and much rougher ) than we had anticipated , so we persuaded a fisherman to take us to the bird cliffs in his boat . |
| 14 | It was also unusual to have the batsman complain about seals swimming behind the bowler 's arm , but at least this allowed us to stop for drinks even more often than we had done the day before . |
| 15 | However , others saw in it greater advantages than we had and were keen to invest . |
| 16 | Here is an artist for whom sensuality was extraordinarily important , but who will turn out to be emotionally far more complex than we had previously thought . |
| 17 | It is only when one has haunted the markets of France and the food shops in the country towns and villages , watched the housewives doing their shopping , listened to them discussing their purchases at the pâtisseries and the charcuteries that one realizes how much less they are tied to their kitchens than we had always been led to suppose . |
| 18 | It was a far less sedate procession than we had imagined . |
| 19 | He addressed us now for the first time , in far more lucid Indonesian than we had ever heard from his elders . |
| 20 | This was much more than we had expected and was largely due to the need to raise the path to the front door , which involved relocating two man-hole covers . |
| 21 | That week Hannah and I worked harder than we had ever worked in our lives before , but at last all was ready . |
| 22 | Young girls have so much more freedom than we had in my day . |
| 23 | We find that the sensitivity of the flow rate was less than we had hoped . |
| 24 | Still , we were hopeful of the future of the still young department , when the decision was made to seek CNAA validation for the courses offered by the College , and we prepared to rewrite ours to take account of our experience , and to justify our intentions more fully than we had had to do before to critics from whom we expected scepticism rather than sympathy . |
| 25 | ‘ I know people have a different attitude to things now than we had before the war , but you and Chris are still the same sort of people . |
| 26 | Others adopted the term , sometimes using it more prescriptively than we had intended . |
| 27 | Of climbing Ratagan ( which they spelt in different ways : Boswell , ‘ Ratakin' : Johnson , ‘ Ratiken ’ ) in the early afternoon , Johnson confided in Mrs Thrale ( to whom he spells it ‘ Rattiken ’ ) ‘ more difficulty than we had yet experienced ’ , a formidable demur , given the harshness of the ride out from Fort Augustus to Anoch . |
| 28 | ‘ I decided to go to a financial adviser , ’ continues Angie , ‘ He advised me to remortgage with a lender with a lower standard rate and for £20,000 more than we had originally borrowed when we bought the house . |
| 29 | So there was only one helicopter instead of two , which meant less heliskiing than we had hoped for . |
| 30 | We stayed at John Bannon 's Hotel in Manali Orchards for rather more time than we had intended . |