Example sentences of "than [pron] could [verb] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And that 's a whole lot better than you could expect from any petrol-engined BMW in this bracket . |
| 2 | It is offering double the usual trade-in credit for customers turning in a System/36 or 38 in exchange for an AS/400 9404 or 9406 F model — and for the first time , the credit is more than you could get for most of the System/36 models on the used market . |
| 3 | Especially in the early 1930s , notwithstanding the pay-cuts , police officers in the city had a job secure from redundancy — which was more than you could say for most of those they policed . |
| 4 | ( a ) where the market in the target 's shares is very liquid , offering the market price offers shareholders nothing more than they could get in any event . |
| 5 | When the Civil War broke out in England in the 1640s , it could be taken calmly enough in most of the American colonies because the colonists had no particular desire for changes ; in Maryland the Protestants did want changes , and by 1655 they had taken power from the Catholic minority , though the new government was never completely in control of the situation and Catholics maintained a more satisfactory position than they could have in any other territory under English rule at the time . |