Example sentences of "than you would [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hence a lower price than you would pay elsewhere in this part of town ( £25–£30ph pn ) . |
| 2 | Outputs from 4 , 6 , 8 , 12 , 15 and now 20kW , according to selection and complete with remote start , acoustic capsule , water and fuel pumps , all Panda generators are smaller than you would think possible — Panda 4 measures only 51×37×51cm and even the mighty Panda 20 is just 94×45×66cm . |
| 3 | Then the men-at-arms under the two banners , the King 's and the Earl 's , had waited outside , and the rest had got round the gate and walked talking inside : the King Macbeth with less meat on him , like a man who fed at sea , and Siward of Northumbria the way he always was , with his chest round as a shield under his tunic , and only his hair and beard greyer than you would think for a man not much past fifty . |
| 4 | You would no more turn them off than you would extinguish life . |
| 5 | Now that the line has been fitted , the residuals tell us how actual chronic sickness rates differ from expectations formed on the basis of death rates ; the West Midlands region , for example , has less chronic sickness than you would expect from its death rate , but East Anglia has more . |
| 6 | Far weightier than you would expect . |
| 7 | The sum of the two , however , is firmer than you would expect and probably firmer than Adidas intended . |
| 8 | On the whole the scene is quiet , quieter at least than you would expect considering that this is one of the most important wholesale fruit and vegetable markets in France , the great distributing centre for the primeurs of the astonishingly fertile and productive areas of the Vaucluse and the Comtat Venaissin. — areas which less than a hundred years ago were desperately poor , inadequately irrigated , isolated for lack of roads and transport , earthquake-stricken , devastated by blights which destroyed the cereal crops and the vines . |
| 9 | Interesting that both women seemed to have had access to more money than you would expect . |
| 10 | one of the criticisms or possible criticisms of the M R C figures was that these were all patients who had been entered into superficial bladder cancer studies and they do n't therefore re represent all because people are selected to go into the trial and perhaps they are lower risk patients than others and in fact I believe that the recurrence rate in the M R C studies are lower than you would expect for er superficial bladder cancer in general . |
| 11 | Even so , tensions between central cash limiting and independent care management could lead to swifter tinkering with eligibility criteria than you would expect ; |
| 12 | Either way , you will probably want to put more emphasis on decoration than you would do normally . |
| 13 | Pause pause speak rather slower than you would do if you were in a normal conversation . |
| 14 | It 's understanding the so speak slowly not not not laboured but just a little slower than you would do . |
| 15 | You 'll probably get er a lot more flowers for your money from Marian than you would get from . |
| 16 | So by three , yes , there is some variation , but they are certainly there is less variation than you would get at the end of the secondary school or university . |
| 17 | So by three , yes , there is some variation , but they are certainly there is less variation than you would get at the end of the secondary school or university . |
| 18 | To make an atomic bomb , a terrorist or a would-be proliferator would need to get hold of only 5kg of weapon-grade plutonium or 15kg of weapon-grade uranium , less than you would need to fill a fruitbowl . |
| 19 | Say a knuckle of silver from each of you ; no more than you would balance on a fingertip . |
| 20 | ‘ But more than you would have got if Miss Morgan had agreed to your suggestion of splitting the fund up between you . |
| 21 | It was not a big watch but the noise it made was much bigger than you would have expected . |
| 22 | With careful thought and the application of ruthless logic , it may be possible to establish a much larger claim than you would have expected . |
| 23 | Says the diligent pilot : ‘ It is harder than you would have thought possible to identify fuel-contaminated water from avgas if your mindset is looking for globules of water in the bottom of a column of fuel . |
| 24 | ‘ When somebody is going through a crisis they are opening up to you and a deep bond does develop , more perhaps than you would have with a doctor . |
| 25 | Do you get more recognition or coverage than you would have working by yourselves ? |
| 26 | It is much better than you would have imagined , ’ he said . |
| 27 | Even though in effect you 're using more of your income proportionately than you would have been doing before . |
| 28 | ‘ And I bet I 've absorbed more about seamanship than you would have about cooking . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ And , if I may say so , my suspicions are that you 'll be making a considerably better living on the salary I pay you than you would have made working for yourself … ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Perhaps I have been less civil than you would have reason to expect . ’ |