Example sentences of "than [pers pn] [vb mod] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | PAMELA : [ aside ] I have a little tincture of jealousy too , which has made me more uneasy than I ought to be , particularly in the case of Miss Sally Godfrey and my fears of what might happen when we reach London . |
| 2 | She 's obviously a slag , no better than she ought to be . ’ |
| 3 | She was more relaxed than she used to be but still , in Dexter 's view , judged herself too harshly . |
| 4 | But Anya 's a better judge of character than she used to be , back in the old homeland . |
| 5 | She was more tired than she used to be , that was all . |
| 6 | 49% of you are more afraid of driving alone in the dark than you used to be . |
| 7 | ‘ You 're much more sensible than you used to be , but your mum ca n't see it , and my mum still thinks I 'm three and a half . ’ |
| 8 | I do n't think Gemma eats as well as these two do , she 's ever so finicky worse than you used to be . |
| 9 | Even more concerned than we ought to be |
| 10 | We 're more conscious of these things than we used to be , before . |
| 11 | Though we feel ourselves to be much more comfortable now than we used to be , there has been very little increase in domestic fuel demand over fifty years or more . |
| 12 | In consequence , European collaboration is fraught and costly : operational requirements are made more complex than they ought to be by the need for compromise ; sharing development leads to mismatches of components that have to be corrected late on in programmes ; and divided production and assembly increases overheads and puts up costs . |
| 13 | Because our lord the king had great zeal and desire to redress the state of the realm in such things as required amendment for the common profit of Holy Church and of the realm ; and because the state of Holy Church had been evil kept and the prelates and religious persons of the land grieved many ways , and the people otherwise entreated than they ought to be , and the peace less kept , and the laws less used , and the offenders less punished than they ought to be . |
| 14 | Because our lord the king had great zeal and desire to redress the state of the realm in such things as required amendment for the common profit of Holy Church and of the realm ; and because the state of Holy Church had been evil kept and the prelates and religious persons of the land grieved many ways , and the people otherwise entreated than they ought to be , and the peace less kept , and the laws less used , and the offenders less punished than they ought to be . |
| 15 | The scientists who man the climatological observation posts are less cautious than they used to be now that the general theory of climate change has become common property ; government servants are more confident and outspoken ; and , while scepticism remains , no cabinet minister is likely to denounce the theory and the accompanying evidence as hysterical . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , RAF attitudes were changing : the disbandment of Fighter Command and the probable demise of the V Force made pilot seats in transport aircraft more attractive than they used to be . |
| 17 | The columnists on the op-ed pages are more bloody-minded than they used to be , but in its editorials the Times remains the voice of American public policy . |
| 18 | Now some have — and foreign investors , less credulous anyway , are more needed than they used to be . |
| 19 | Litters today are so much bigger than they used to be that sows inevitably find it more difficult to avoid harming their offspring . |
| 20 | Are people more or less ‘ in the know ’ about the external circumstances which affect them than they used to be ? |
| 21 | A&R people are sharper and more aggressive than they used to be . |
| 22 | ‘ Like a lot of things in the musical instrument industry , strings are much better value than they used to be . |
| 23 | Nurses were more highly educated and accountable for their actions as professionals than they used to be . |
| 24 | Boilers , especially the new low-water-content gas types , area a lot smaller than they used to be , and the latest gas-fired condensing boilers can run at efficiencies as high as 90% . |
| 25 | The schools of Freud and Jung are now much closer together than they used to be : it 's been said that Jungians tend to be more ‘ spiritually ’ orientated . |
| 26 | ‘ People are growing more realistic than they used to be ’ , Norster added , judging that the divisive ways of the recent past are being addressed . |
| 27 | The arguments that are now available to justify the use of particular methods are much more convincing than they used to be . |
| 28 | Gamma Virginis or Arich is also a binary ; the identical components can be split with almost any telescope , though not with binoculars ( they are much less wide apart now than they used to be 50 years ago , and the separation is decreasing steadily ) . |
| 29 | But they were less inclined to tolerate this kind of thing than they used to be . |
| 30 | Taxes on companies ' profits are also now far less than they used to be ( down by over a third ) . |