Example sentences of "than [pron] might expect " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , away from the cameras , they are a far more rough , camp , unfettered experience than you might expect . |
| 2 | Money and sex are both rated as less important than you might expect . |
| 3 | I 've heard the account in hushed and pulsing detail and frankly it was no more and no less squalid than you might expect . |
| 4 | But because it is beside rather than in the Pyrenees , the Basque Coast has a gentler climate than you might expect , with an average temperature over the whole year of nearly 14° Centigrade — almost as good as you will find in Portugal . |
| 5 | He 's cool , articulate and a slighter man than you might expect , a tennis player in a town of Schwarzeneggers . |
| 6 | Images scanned and printed on a 300dpi system using 32 levels of grey look surprisingly good ; better than you might expect at any rate . |
| 7 | This machine is no exception , and the quality of the build is better than you might expect for a bog-standard clone . |
| 8 | Moving the smaller oval into place is much easier than you might expect because of the way guidelines appear as the point that you have picked up come into alignment with important features on other object . |
| 9 | Your policy gives you much more than you might expect . |
| 10 | Your policy gives you much more than you might expect . |
| 11 | What your policy provides Your policy gives you much more than you might expect . |
| 12 | An odd aspect of the mountain is that although its relative isolation from other hills makes it one of the most prominent peaks to pick out from other far distant tops , the views are rather more limited than one might expect . |
| 13 | This was written late in his life and with his own declared interest in socialism and sociology there is a tendency to see things rather more ‘ socially ’ than one might expect from a child of the local corner shop . |
| 14 | Motian 's drumming is much less ‘ accompanist ’ in style than most ( although there are no true drum solos here ) , which also lends greater integration to the ensemble than one might expect . |
| 15 | That these same organisations apparently continue to do business suggests that either they do in fact offer something extra which the discerning customer wants , or that the demand is more elastic than one might expect , i.e. the average customer is not so very discerning after all and may have more money than sense . |
| 16 | A push button switches in the amp 's ‘ Enhance ’ circuitry , the effect of which is to condition the high order harmonics of the distorted sound , reputedly offering a less ‘ fizzy ’ tone than one might expect from a transistor amp . |
| 17 | That Leavis was secular and Lewis Christian matters less , on a long view , than one might expect . |
| 18 | The relationship between the two concepts of range and amount is perhaps more complex than one might expect , for some local cases get sustained coverage in local newspapers but not get a mention in he nationals , while , on the other hand , some events get a mention over a large number of newspapers on one particular day but never get featured again . |
| 19 | Dreams of being chased , or of flying are also more frequent than one might expect , given that neither of these events happens very frequently in real life . |
| 20 | The range of natural environments contained within Yugoslavia itself is far greater than one might expect in an area only 5 per cent larger than the United Kingdom . |
| 21 | The business is not doing well though sales are good — higher than one might expect in a town of this size and against significant competition — ’ |
| 22 | They passed two landings , Gordon following her with majestic tread , but faster than one might expect , since although he had lost time in hanging up his raincoat in the hall , he reached the door first , and opened it without any kind of announcement , and Edward was standing , with his back to them at first , thinner and smaller than she remembered , but then she always made the mistake when she had n't seen him for a bit — he turned round , protesting , and it was Edward . |
| 23 | It will be seen from tables 1 and 2 that such very slow movements were more frequent than one might expect . |
| 24 | ‘ Is n't it also unacceptable that it took the management of British Nuclear Fuels longer than one might expect to make this incident public , especially bearing in mind that Dr Lewis Moonie [ a Labour front-bencher ] and I actually visited this site on Thursday and Friday of last week and were not informed that these excessive discharges had taken place ? ’ |
| 25 | Sooner than anyone might expect . ’ |