Example sentences of "than had [be] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a business takes on more debt , its calculations can be thrown out by two things : if the interest cost of servicing the debt rises by more than was expected ; and if the cash flow earned by the business falls by more than had been planned for . |
| 2 | Performance itself soon established norms which by 1950 were higher than had been hoped for in 1945 ; and then , as European recovery got underway , the standard became even more precise and , for Britain , more formidable . |
| 3 | The Fleadh ( pronounced Flah ) , which was launched in London 's Finsbury Park in 1990 , and has already spawned two related events in the United States , got off to a shaky start in Scotland last year , with a smaller attendance than had been hoped for and complaints about the shale surface on which it was held . |
| 4 | Congress approved on Oct. 26 a defence budget for fiscal year 1991 of $288,300 million , $16,700 million less than had been authorized for the previous year [ see p. 37409 ] . |
| 5 | Characteristically , he charged considerably more than had been agreed for the work ; the ewer and basin weighed 570 ounces , substantially more than the requested maximum . |