Example sentences of "[noun] [subord] [vb past] [art] " in BNC.

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1 We can see that the CCCS presented a different picture of youth leisure styles than did the Albemarle Report .
2 RS-ORS and RP-ORS promoted more water absorption in secreting intestine than did the hypotonic glucose monomer solution , HYPO-ORS ( p<0.007 ) .
3 Dae-sook Suh has remarked that there is truth in the saying that the Japanese police created more communists by their draconian methods than did the Comintern by its intrigues .
4 Trilateralism was certainly an effective antidote to isolationism , even if it did not extinguish the assertiveness shown by the Lord Chancellor 's Department in securing a faster growth in the rate of expenditure on the courts and legal aid than did the Home Office on the police and prisons .
5 The ALP finished with 0.2 per cent less of the two-party preferred vote than did the opposition coalition , and in at least 10 instances the ALP won because they received the second preference votes of supporters of the Greens .
6 A born raconteur , the racy style of his lectures , with his well known yarns — the most famous being that of the ‘ Woman who did ’ — I suspect got more chemistry into our thick heads than did the much admired cool , classic perfection of the lectures of Prof F. L. Pyman .
7 In the circumstances there is in my judgment no option but to give effect to the literal meaning of the words as did the Court of Appeal .
8 The main failings of the nation lay within its own boundaries , not in the outside world or such phenomena as bourgeois liberalism' , which the authors did not view in the same threatening light as did the more conservative party members .
9 Third , the CD4 counts and percentages returned to normal within four months as did the inverted CD4/CD8 ratios ( a new finding to our knowledge after symptomatic , primary HIV-1 infection ) .
10 Ygarth the wild cat which savaged sheep and escaped drowning made its entrance as did the Burton trick of sinking a sconce ( two pints ) of college beer in ten seconds ( 'never been beaten ’ ) .
11 One Washington ambassador of a small West European country says that America kept his government more closely informed of the progress of the ‘ two-plus-four ’ talks on German unity than did the West Germans , French or British .
12 The level of SR activity declined sharply and in the pre-war period they took less advantage than did the SDs of the opportunities for legal activity .
13 This is not surprising — Labour offered far more to those in the cities than did the Conservatives .
14 Again then there is no evidence that the project achieved greater success in sustaining people at home than did the normal services ( in fact the reverse appears to be the case ) .
15 This part of the record business , getting the records to the consumers , had been even more strongly dominated by the major companies than had the origin of recordings .
16 Erm the old on that you know , took me two years to get the bearings approved and er you know but then having to wait a year and a half cos had a year and a half 's worth of orders on 'em and promised to hold the price for three years is that 's what it took for them to use them up , er has run out , new orders have been put on but I 've got the chance of taking the business .
17 The exclusion on the grounds of race of a people who laid as much emphasis on their own ethnic origins as did the Japanese , and who implicitly believed in their own superiority , appeared an unpardonable insult .
18 A jewelled necklace round his throat glittered in the sun as did the pearl earrings which hung from fleshy lobes on chains of pure silver .
19 The wars with France and Spain during the eighteenth century stretched over many years and disrupted plant exchange as did the American War of Independence in 1775 .
20 The modular , simulation technique appears to have been preferred by more subjects and perceived to give greater insight than did the optimal technique .
21 Certainly children who start their primary school life in the late 1980s will enter a far richer classroom than did the children I was responsible for on my first day of teaching .
22 Of all these , Augmentations was probably the most remarkable , since its accounting processes were modern and it used a more rational system for collecting revenues than did the old Exchequer .
23 During the 1770s and 1780s the Congregationalists built more chapels in south Yorkshire than did the Methodists , but significantly they erected no new buildings between 1836 and 1851 , whereas at that time the various forms of Methodism were building chapels enthusiastically .
24 Some health professionals even argued that they learnt more from the process than did the ‘ recipient ’ villagers .
25 The problem with delaying is that the Protocol documents are sent through to the buyer 's conveyancers in dribs and drabs and this can take as many weeks as did the old system of going through preliminary enquiries , etc .
26 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 ) .
27 They avoided the conference as did the Faculty of Astrological Studies which trains two hundred and fifty astrologers a year .
28 In dealing with the question of possession it adopted the same time-limits as did the Sentences of Paul , as well as the thirty-year rule of late Roman Law .
29 Ship-building was a great consumer of steel ; by 1914 Great Britain alone had as much steam tonnage as had the whole of Europe in 1880 and was launching another 2 million tons a year .
30 The Colour operation at Maastricht saw good growth in its automotive glass enamels business as did the Print operation at Limoges .
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