Example sentences of "would be [verb] [adv] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | With good reason some senators argued that the position of the president in these vital matters would be strengthened rather than weakened . |
| 2 | This would mean re-examining the current grouping of units of production into larger enterprises , but the point is that ‘ enterprises ’ , as groupings of operating units , would be reconstructed rather than simply dismantled into small independent components . |
| 3 | According to this schedule a prosecutor would be appointed less than a month before the presidential elections of November 1992 . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , good research departments whose staff had conceptual ability as well as research skills would be needed more than ever , and these were more likely to be found in the large , broad-based search firms . |
| 5 | LIQUIDATORS of the Isle of Man Savings and Investment Bank , which crashed seven and a half years ago with debts of £42.4m , said last night they would be paying more than 10p in the pound to the 4,000 mainly small investors who lost money . |
| 6 | My presumption is that there is a suggestion that development would be facilitated rather than hindered by the removal of the greenbelt protection . |
| 7 | Barbara Coleman would detest the solitude , the place would bring back memories of the good times and she would be confronted more than ever with the evidence that the good times had gone . |
| 8 | This would be going further than women have in fact come . |
| 9 | In that way , she argued , speculation about the marriage would be dampened rather than intensified . |
| 10 | For three and a half years these lines would be advanced less than 16km/10mls in either direction , and Allied strategy would be devoted to penetrating this formidable barrier . |
| 11 | Again this would , by and large , be true of most of the matrilineal societies of New Guinea where , by most reckoning , the status of women would be considered lower than in many of the patrilineal societies of West Africa . |
| 12 | ‘ If we think back to what I said earlier , perhaps understanding as such would be disabling rather than helpful . |