Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun pl] [subord] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The patients with gastric ulcer had significantly fewer gap junctions than did the healthy volunteers . |
| 2 | The 1980 WIRS contained an identical question on the use of fixed-term contract workers as did the 1984 survey ( the question on the use of agency workers was not consistent ) . |
| 3 | So it was much easier if you had n't got a lot of money to fake some action , and produce some fake Boer war newsreels than to do the real thing . |
| 4 | Those respondents who started out on free standing DipHE courses achieved very good academic results comparing very favourably with the linked DipHE/BA and DipHE/BSc students as did the mature students ( over 25 years old ) , and the under qualified students . |
| 5 | Much better that the simpler jobs be handled by word processors with intelligent formatting systems while leaving the complex work to those trained to handle it . |
| 6 | The House of Lords shows every sign of adopting a hard line against trade unions when interpreting the new legislation , as this next case demonstrates . |
| 7 | There are certain routine practices , customs and procedures in our society whose consequence is that black people have poorer jobs , health , housing , education and life chances than do the white majority . |
| 8 | She 's been in Malta since February 1968 when she was impounded by the Airport Authorities whilst wearing the spurious registration 5T-TAF and carrying a cargo of aircraft tyres with the suspected destination of Biafra . |
| 9 | Once attention is focused on observation statements as forming the alleged secure basis for science , it can be seen that , contrary to the inductivists ' claim , theory of some kind must precede all observation statements and observation statements are as fallible as the theories they presuppose . |