Example sentences of "[subord] [vb past] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile , potential creators of university-related science institutions in the UK could do worse than read Koppes 's book for some idea of what might await them . |
| 2 | Markedly smaller and creamier than Collared Dove , but with no dark wing-tips , and no blue-grey in tail . |
| 3 | Generally darker than Collared Dove , with chestnut upperparts , and black and white patch on either side of neck . |
| 4 | His prize money more than doubled Hendry 's seasonal earnings , which stood at £92,950 from the nine events leading up to his week 's work at the London venue . |
| 5 | Cricketers the world over , and England 's highly-respected umpires in particular , were stunned after the TCCB more than doubled Lamb 's original fine , which was already a maximum for a county committee to impose . |
| 6 | Mr. Coyte than thanked Albert Larmer , foreman of Radford Park and woodworker extraordinaire . |
| 7 | In the course of this odyssey , and at a time when travel was usually uncomfortable and often dangerous , he travelled nearly eighty thousand kilometres on horseback and spent some £30,000 of his own money in his determination to improve prison conditions ; he entered prisons in disguise in defiance of governments who feared the power of his pen ; was captured by pirates ; quelled a riot single handed and more than earned John Wesley 's tribute to him as ‘ one of the greatest men in Europe ’ . |
| 8 | He found that harem males in herds had to walk farther per day to nourish themselves than did members of a lone all-male group . |
| 9 | As noted in an earlier chapter , some DCSLs negotiated a broader role than did others , but we were impressed with the clarity and economy of their expositions to school staff . |
| 10 | He obviously possessed great talents , though he perhaps thought more highly of them than did others ; and he also had a unique capacity for arousing antagonisms and hatred . |
| 11 | She hardly saw them , but their presence at night made her feel easier than did Maria 's and she slept better . |
| 12 | The arguments of so-called radical democrats like Bachrach and Baratz had rather more direct impact than did disagreement over the nature of theory , partly because they shared some important ground with the pluralists . |
| 13 | Estimates of past populations have tended to be revised upwards , but in the Roman period , Britain sustained a population much lower than did Italy . |
| 14 | The following years saw repeated attempts at reconciliation between the two factions , and local activists showed markedly less interest in ideological divisions than did leaders abroad . |
| 15 | Even in the relegation season the attendance averages were above 18,000 ( unlike those at Roker Park which frequently drop even quicker than did Marco Gabbiadini 's reputation at Crystal Palace ) . |
| 16 | TAURUS will have a far more noticeable impact on investors than did TALISMAN . |
| 17 | It demonstrates what appears to have been a major weakness of the UK economy , namely that the UK has required over the last twenty years a higher rate of gross investment to produce a given increase in output , than did West Germany , France , Japan , the USA or Canada . |
| 18 | Despite this deprivation , and despite the fact that the difference in their age was only a year , he survived the early and mid-1930s much better than did MacDonald . |
| 19 | Women at fifth and higher parity required blood transfusions twice to three times more frequently than did women of low parity . |
| 20 | Germany had to import more of her food than did France but her landowners were saved as the French peasants had been . |
| 21 | Sri Lankans instituted charges of crimes against the person and property many times more frequently than did Indians . |
| 22 | This idea had a great influence upon the thinking of Schopenhauer who followed up its implications more thoroughly than did Kant. 9 . |
| 23 | For one thing , absurd as the respect paid Lenin may seem in the West , his works in fact constitute a much looser strait-jacket than did Stalin 's Short Course : composed in the heat of political struggle and fierce polemics , Lenin 's works are far from unambiguous and he can be quoted in support of conflicting interpretations of many secondary issues . |
| 24 | Whatever he wrote about Kirkwoods of past ages , no one could have written a better tribute to a family than did Thomson when he described Major Kirkwood and the rest of the present-day family . |
| 25 | Benjamin was the oldest of the Frankfurt writers and related more directly to the neo-Kantianism of a previous generation of German scholars , which included Simmel and Weber , than did Adorno or Marcuse . |
| 26 | Patients and relatives responded more positively to the ward survey than did visitors . |
| 27 | In the hitherto unpublished Leeds University evaluation of the 1991 Key Stage One National Curriculum Assessment , teachers rated the tasks they gave to children as rather more challenging than did observers , and were rather more generous than the observers in their estimates both of the frequency of open questions and of the opportunities they gave pupils to volunteer opinions . |
| 28 | In the study carried out by Blackmore she found that a cotton towel removed bacteria more efficiently than did paper towels but concluded that both types of towel were far superior to warm air drying methods . |
| 29 | Given the distribution of scores among their controls , we estimate that people above the upper quartile had at least a twofold higher risk of being admitted to hospital for acute myocardial infarction than did people with a score of zero . |
| 30 | Jack Charlton , the Republic of Ireland manager , did not attend Saturday 's draw in Rome but seemed more upset on TV back home than did Bobby Robson , who made all the right diplomatic noises in the Palazzo dello Sport without giving much away . |