Example sentences of "than [pron] 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 | The books — almost as much a symbol of Jewishness as the Mogen David itself — are by and large well thumbed , though fewer than one would expect . |
| 20 | Prior to the AGM a postal ballot had voted against the resolution by approximately 46,000 to 29,000votes — a much larger proportion than one would expect . |
| 21 | When considering a whole range of variables it is found that those social characteristics indicative of a low position of wealth or status do not appear among persons treated as criminal more often than one would expect from their proportion among the general population . |
| 22 | On the occasions when I have tried this , I have found that I enjoy admiring what I have done much more than usual — the finished job seems to have a glow , which lasts longer than one would expect . |
| 23 | Owing to Minton 's technique of holding the design together through the use of a consistent low tone , the colours are darker than one would expect and suggest the kind of livid colouring that occurs just before a storm . |
| 24 | Where government takes the form of absolute power ‘ the one who controls it appears to the people as a divinity … this religiosity can not fail to have its usual effects on punishment ’ ( Durkheim , 1973 : 305 ) , making punishment more severe than one would expect for a society of the same level of development but a less absolute government . |
| 25 | However , as with the tachistoscopic paradigm , left-right ear differences in dichotic listening scores are far more labile than one would expect if ear asymmetry is an index of some fixed structural attribute ( Teng , 1981 ) . |
| 26 | Perhaps because of disincentives built into the Supplementary Benefit system , the ‘ zero-earner couple ’ category is bigger than one would expect if the wives of unemployed men had the same economic activity rates as the wives of employed men ( see Rimmer , 1987 , p. 44 for a discussion of this phenomenon ) . |
| 27 | But this happens far less systematically than one would expect . |
| 28 | In other words , the list operates at a much higher level of pre coordination of concepts than one would expect a thesaurus to support . |
| 29 | Here mercury levels are one thousand times greater than one would expect in such a remote area . |
| 30 | Accordingly , the rate of turnover of a portfolio investing significantly in futures may quite legitimately be much higher than one would expect of a portfolio investing solely in stocks and shares . |