Example sentences of "than [pers pn] would expect " in BNC.
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| 1 | I will not seek to justify this , any more than I would expect the Tories to justify the three day week , the Suez Crisis or any other element of their sordid history , for what we are discussing is a situation facing thousands of people in this district today , and what we are gon na do to ensure that they have a future . |
| 2 | It 's er yeah two and a half hundred and sixty percent higher than , than I would expect . |
| 3 | Now that the line has been fitted , the residuals tell us how actual chronic sickness rates differ from expectations formed on the basis of death rates ; the West Midlands region , for example , has less chronic sickness than you would expect from its death rate , but East Anglia has more . |
| 4 | Far weightier than you would expect . |
| 5 | The sum of the two , however , is firmer than you would expect and probably firmer than Adidas intended . |
| 6 | On the whole the scene is quiet , quieter at least than you would expect considering that this is one of the most important wholesale fruit and vegetable markets in France , the great distributing centre for the primeurs of the astonishingly fertile and productive areas of the Vaucluse and the Comtat Venaissin. — areas which less than a hundred years ago were desperately poor , inadequately irrigated , isolated for lack of roads and transport , earthquake-stricken , devastated by blights which destroyed the cereal crops and the vines . |
| 7 | Interesting that both women seemed to have had access to more money than you would expect . |
| 8 | one of the criticisms or possible criticisms of the M R C figures was that these were all patients who had been entered into superficial bladder cancer studies and they do n't therefore re represent all because people are selected to go into the trial and perhaps they are lower risk patients than others and in fact I believe that the recurrence rate in the M R C studies are lower than you would expect for er superficial bladder cancer in general . |
| 9 | Even so , tensions between central cash limiting and independent care management could lead to swifter tinkering with eligibility criteria than you would expect ; |
| 10 | No , I have n't that information , tha that that detail was asked for , but I do know that er that certainly in a majority of cases because they are local erm the attendance from tenants was certainly substantial and I would of , but certainly far more than you would expected if the panel perhaps had been inside a . |
| 11 | That dratted child never seemed to hurry , but slipped along like a cloud shadow , faster than you 'd expect . |
| 12 | If a guitar is substantially heavier or lighter than you 'd expect , of course we 'll say so , but how many people even know the weight of their own guitars ; I do n't , and I bet you do n't either . |
| 13 | Using the pickup selector set between middle and bridge the two pickups blend very well , and although the sound in this position is usually the weakest , on the EG-1 it 's stronger than you 'd expect and balances favourably with the other positions . |
| 14 | Time Zone also normalises your skin so it can resist forming lines and wrinkles for years longer than you 'd expect . |
| 15 | The stitching is well finished and the Safari is a good quality shirt — but no more than you 'd expect for the price . |
| 16 | But I 'm always reminded of a large bomber aircraft coming in to land , moving very much more slowly than you 'd expect for something of its size . |
| 17 | Particularly impressive was its handling of greyscales — it displayed more subtlety than you 'd expect . |
| 18 | He held my gaze for just a fraction longer than you 'd expect , and I was certain then that underneath his professional front he was interested in me . |
| 19 | Although horses only see in black and white , which is really varying forms of grey like in black and white photographs , they are much more conscious of colour than we would expect . |
| 20 | When occasions have occurred , as they do in all organizations , where it is necessary to take a ‘ big ’ risk on a young man whose experience and background we think inadequate for the task , nine times out of ten not only does he rise to the occasion but he does even better than we would expect . |
| 21 | They involve quite substantial amounts of money at any time for a task which we consider has been especially well done , usually , in fairness , further than we would expect just for the execution of the job . |
| 22 | Just above , the feature inlay as Mercier paints it is worthy of comment , chiefly because the panel with the semicircular ends is placed very much farther to the left than we would expect to see it . |
| 23 | On the other hand we have noticed that the Greeks were much less curious than we would expect them to be about certain countries within their reach and indeed well inside their sphere of economic and cultural influence . |
| 24 | As the language of mathematics is so tightly defined , the ability to use mathematics to communicate in a particular language may take longer to develop than we would expect , and this may lead us to underestimate pupils ' grasp of ideas , particularly since language is so closely related to culture . |
| 25 | Contributors invested in them as they would in any commercial building company and their philanthropy lay in accepting a return which , at 5 per cent , was lower than they would expect on the free market . |