Example sentences of "than [pron] [modal v] 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 | Nevertheless , away from the cameras , they are a far more rough , camp , unfettered experience than you might expect . |
| 4 | Money and sex are both rated as less important than you might expect . |
| 5 | I 've heard the account in hushed and pulsing detail and frankly it was no more and no less squalid than you might expect . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He 's cool , articulate and a slighter man than you might expect , a tennis player in a town of Schwarzeneggers . |
| 8 | Images scanned and printed on a 300dpi system using 32 levels of grey look surprisingly good ; better than you might expect at any rate . |
| 9 | This machine is no exception , and the quality of the build is better than you might expect for a bog-standard clone . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Your policy gives you much more than you might expect . |
| 12 | Your policy gives you much more than you might expect . |
| 13 | What your policy provides Your policy gives you much more than you might expect . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Far weightier than you would expect . |
| 16 | The sum of the two , however , is firmer than you would expect and probably firmer than Adidas intended . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Interesting that both women seemed to have had access to more money than you would expect . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Even so , tensions between central cash limiting and independent care management could lead to swifter tinkering with eligibility criteria than you would expect ; |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | So this wealth of information — all of it updated much more regularly than you could expect through normal information channels — is greatly under-used . |
| 23 | And that 's a whole lot better than you could expect from any petrol-engined BMW in this bracket . |
| 24 | That dratted child never seemed to hurry , but slipped along like a cloud shadow , faster than you 'd expect . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Time Zone also normalises your skin so it can resist forming lines and wrinkles for years longer than you 'd expect . |
| 28 | The stitching is well finished and the Safari is a good quality shirt — but no more than you 'd expect for the price . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Particularly impressive was its handling of greyscales — it displayed more subtlety than you 'd expect . |