Example sentences of "[subord] do [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All these behavioural skills fall into the easier said than done category but they are all learnable techniques that can be mastered with practice . |
| 2 | But , exercise apart , the medical profession has been mainly concerned with telling us not to do things , rather than to do things , and banning things rather than advocating them . |
| 3 | Because , it is , I think that 's much fairer than doing minutes , cos you still get the |
| 4 | You know where they and they just multiplying by number rather than doing bit shifts . |
| 5 | Firth , Hubert and Forge ( 1970 ) suggest that by and large men have poorer relationships with their siblings than do women , and that relationships between sisters are more likely to be close and supportive . |
| 6 | As would be expected from the evidence about marital status presented earlier more men ( 60 per cent ) live with their spouses than do women ( 32 per cent ) . |
| 7 | The Spot Image Corporation has promoted sales of French high-resolution photographs in the US domestic market with the argument that its pictures provide higher quality and better detail than do US Landsat pictures . |
| 8 | Subsequent discrimination training thus occurs between the compound of A and its associate X and of B and its associate Y. If the events used as X and Y differ from each other more than do A and B ( see Fig. 5.10(b) ) then it might be supposed that the compounds would be discriminated more readily than would an untrained A and B. Certainly most proponents of an associative account for acquired distinctiveness effects have taken their analysis no further , implying that the phenomenon follows directly from what has just been said . |
| 9 | They too pandered to protectionist sentiment — though more cautiously than do Bill Clinton and Mickey Kantor . |
| 10 | Fleshy fruits of the type birds eat are often thought of as primitive in many features , that is to say that they share more characters with ancestral flowering plant fruits than do fruits with wind-dispersed seeds . |
| 11 | Erm the reason why parental investment theory is is particularly sensitive to , to the female point of view of course is as we 've seen one of the fundamental consequence of anisogamy is the fact that females normally invest more in offspring than do males , whereas males concentrate on mating success normally , females normally concentrate on erm parental , in individual offspring . |
| 12 | Between elections the paramount need for any Home Secretary is to maintain the support of his own party members , a task made harder in each of the major parties by the fact that local party workers often hold more extreme views on what should be done than do Ministers . |
| 13 | Learn to be things rather than do things for the sufferer . |
| 14 | These native woodlands support many more wild flowers and bird species than do areas of conifer forestry . |
| 15 | Despite a disconcerting 85% plunge in net profits to just $94.5m , Fujitsu Ltd , bolstered by the acquisition of ICL Plc is putting rapidly increasing distance between itself and the other contenders for the title ‘ world 's second-biggest computer company ’ : some commentators illegitimately eliminate Fujitsu 's semiconductor sales from the total simply because the company sells more of its chip output on the merchant market than do IBM Corp , Digital Equipment Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co , but all of Fujitsu 's $26,640m annual turnover is information technology-related — and the company is now nearly twice the size of the $14,000m-a-year DEC , and well over a third the size of IBM ; only a decade ago , IBM was more like 10 times the size of the next biggest computer manufacturer . |
| 16 | Because males spend less energy in manufacturing each gamete than do females , males can potentially produce more offspring , in a greater number of productive matings . |
| 17 | Males grow more during normal puberty than do females . |
| 18 | Those authorities with a high proportion in low social classes resident within their area both devote a higher proportion of their income to education than do authorities with higher social class constituencies , and spend their money on primary education rather than secondary education ; the reverse being true of ‘ high social class ’ authorities . |
| 19 | This results in exaggerated abundances of such elements as ribs , vertebrae and finger bones , all of which occur in higher numbers in the mammalian skeleton than do skulls , mandibles and major limb bones . |
| 20 | Rectangular and square panelled designs appear to show a higher incidence of figured work than do lozenge designs with distributed panels , for example , but this is not especially significant . |
| 21 | According to some scholars , parents education in general has a greater effect on survival than do income and access to health facilities combined . |
| 22 | ( The top prize in this group went to a writer who also started his career in these pages , Duncan Campbell , who now regales readers of another weekly with stories of government intrigue that clearly appeal to competition judges more than do articles on technology . ) |
| 23 | The importance of the ley crop , particularly clover , in an arable system in this contest is that it not only provides diversity , but also a better opportunity for wildlife , particularly plants and insects , to complete its annual cycle than do crops which are cleared every year . |
| 24 | In this context the relationship of the persuader to the patient — for example , spouse , parents or religious adviser — will be important , because some relationships more readily lend themselves to overbearing the patient 's independent will than do others . |
| 25 | The greater variability in the reproductive success of males could just be a random result : by chance some individuals will meet more mates than do others , and this will have a larger effect on the variability of reproduction of males , because in males more of the random encounters can result in mating . |
| 26 | Given the government 's definition of accountability , under the existing system of local government finance some local authorities face a more accountable regime than do others . |
| 27 | It could be that a researcher 's first paper takes longer to be accepted and published than do papers by established scientists who have had access to the research data of their more junior colleagues . |
| 28 | This has shown how boys demand , and receive , a greater proportion of the teacher 's attention than do girls , and may lead to changes in policy and practice ( Bousted 1989 ) . |
| 29 | At one point in the Report , the Wolfenden Committee argued that it was illogical to presume that boys needed greater protection from ‘ would-be seducers ’ than do girls . |
| 30 | Another complicating factor ( Raczynski & Ruprecht , 1974 ) is that immature predators digest prey more thoroughly than do adults . |