Example sentences of "than [pron] [modal v] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | And er now it 's accepted I suppose and young firemen joining now would n't , would n't know any different , and they 'll probably be able to manage much better than I would on a fire station . |
| 2 | I may modify my behaviour to conform to the expectations of the group , and I will do so in a much shorter time than I would in a one-to-one relationship . |
| 3 | yeah quicker than I can with a key ! |
| 4 | This means that you will pay no more than you would on a normal low cost endowment but get a larger lump sum surplus at the end of the mortgage term . |
| 5 | But because applications will probably be pooled , you may well end up with more of them on your machine ; and you may find yourself running more advanced software than you would on a standalone PC . |
| 6 | Better still , if you are in a position to present these baits on tackle to fish you can see , then you may learn more about fish behaviour in one hour than you would in a season of fishing ‘ blind ’ . |
| 7 | Africa proved to be a paradise where Mr Sandy could pursue his favourite hobby of birdwatching : ‘ It was a most enjoyable tour from the birdwatching point of view because you can see more species in one day in Africa than you can in a year in Scotland . ’ |
| 8 | Where mother nature has been meaner in her packaged quantity , with plums for instance , one unit does not have an inbuilt stop mechanism , so we often end up eating a good deal more than we would with a larger fruit . |
| 9 | Treasure Trove laws do not apply to fossils any more than they would to a lump of raw gold or a precious stone imbedded in rock . |
| 10 | The Russian army team will earn more in the four-day trip to Germany for the European Cup crunch than they would in a month back home . |
| 11 | It is not as efficient as either in their own fields , but performs very much better than they can in a situation where a significant enquiry facility is necessary and where the data is frequently processed sequentially . |
| 12 | Lack of awareness of the world around you , and a mind which has no ideas of its own , will show up to greater disadvantage in direct comparison with your fellow interviewees than they will in a one-to-one interview . |
| 13 | People were doing all kinds of jobs to earn money ; even the married women who could get nothing before were able to take in washing for the posh folk whose maids were earning more in a week in the munitions factories than they could in a month skivvying . |
| 14 | Water is eight hundred times as dense as air , and the slightest bump or protuberance on the body can cause drag , more even than it would on a bird or an aeroplane . |
| 15 | This , in most cases , is all the protection the company needs , but it will pay much less for it than it would for a standard policy . |
| 16 | A horse that has had no exercise all day is less likely to stand still for the farrier than one that has just been ridden ; and a youngster that has never been ridden out on the road before will be considerably more nervous if it goes alone than it would with a companion . |
| 17 | On the other hand , the marriage does not itself have support from wider society : ‘ There is less pressure for a couple to stay together because their break-up has little impact outside the domestic sphere and causes fewer ripples than it would in a society where kinship is more central to the wider social organization ’ ( Allan , 1985 , p. 104 ) . |
| 18 | However , he will always know that his performance on a simulator is being assessed and , except for the business of risks , he may well take more care than he would in a real plant . |
| 19 | A Japanese visitor to suburbia would be more upset by a straight path than he would by a strategically and discreetly placed converted shed — that nevertheless housed garden tools . |
| 20 | Meanwhile , Andy had discovered windsurfing and that he could make more money in a day teaching it than he could in a week in his other job . |