Example sentences of "[noun sg] [subord] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , when his secretary of the treasury ventured on one occasion to suggest that colonial rule was more efficient than the successor regimes in the newly independent states , the president brusquely retorted that it was his " personal conviction that almost any one of the newborn states of the world would far rather embrace Communism or any other form of dictatorship than accept the political domination of another government even though that brought to each citizen a far higher standard of living " . |
| 2 | Yet , encouraged by Tory Central Office , sections of the Press are keener to criticise Labour for the quality of its opposition than to slam the Government for policy failures . |
| 3 | RS-ORS and RP-ORS promoted more water absorption in secreting intestine than did the hypotonic glucose monomer solution , HYPO-ORS ( p<0.007 ) . |
| 4 | The public understands more easily what it means for an old lady to have five pounds snatched from her purse than to grasp the financial significance of 25 million customers paying one penny more for orange juice diluted beyond the level permitted by law . |
| 5 | The only appeals against sentence that the Court of Appeal gets to hear are those imposed by the Crown Court which almost certainly operates a harsher tariff than does the magistrates ' court . |
| 6 | ‘ If the wholesale destruction of Youth be considered a saner method for world betterment than training the Boy , ’ he added as the bitterness showed through , ‘ then the club movement will not press its claim . ’ |
| 7 | Mr d'Ancona admits : ‘ It was probably harder to get British industry to respond to the legitimate requirements of the oil industry than to get the oil industry to make allowance for the legitimate interests of the supply industry . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ There is obviously more to Froggy 's murder than meets the eye and , despite the bullying phone call , my editor , God bless him , wants me to do a little more digging . |
| 9 | If the situation continues I will have no other recourse than to set the facts before Rose Lipman . |
| 10 | This analysis was not universally accepted , and it is clear that many preferred to tackle the problem of dishonesty through preventative action than to vacate the ‘ moral high ground ’ by abandoning or altering too radically the present basis of claim settlement . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | So it looks like this particular First Lady will have more serious matters on her mind than re-decorating the White House like Jackie Kennedy had . |
| 14 | GOOD news slips quickly from the world 's consciousness , so the United Nations ' extraordinary and unexpected achievement in Cambodia looms less large in the public mind than does the grand failure in Bosnia . |
| 15 | He looked like a man with nothing more on this mind than reaching the bar on the far side of the room — and yet she could feel a tension in the muscle of his arm , see it in the set of his mouth . |
| 16 | This finding is open to the criticism that it reflects no more than a difference between the two phenomena in their sensitivity — that the procedure in question disrupts some process common to both phenomena and that the latent inhibition procedure provides a more sensitive measure of this disruption than does the habituation procedure . |
| 17 | I said from the outset that , in the eyes of the TCCB , the MCC and the International Cricket Council , the gouging of a cricket ball is a lesser crime than rocking the boat . |
| 18 | For many journals the referee receives a typescript in the post , sends comments off , and receives no other feedback than to see the article appearing in print later . |
| 19 | I can think of nothing more damaging to law and order in the metropolis than having the hon. Gentleman as chairman of such an authority . |
| 20 | He was no respecter of persons or institutions or ideas just because they were vested with a brief authority , and nothing gave him more pleasure than to prick the bubble of pretension . |
| 21 | In the treaties with the States-General of 1654 and 1667 the English government succeeded in having its claims accepted by its rival ; and so sensible a man as Sir William Temple felt that nothing had ever given him greater pleasure than forcing the Dutch to give way once more on this point in the peace negotiations of 1674 . |
| 22 | There is no military-industrial complex because to define the enhanced role of the military in this way is to assume that the reason for this development is the desire of the military and industry to work together . |
| 23 | Marshall 's own father had a stroke while making the movie and the character Paula , who comes to visit her similarly stricken father , has obvious biographical resonance . |
| 24 | Nor does it contemplate the knock-on consequences for Labour ministers of attempting to implement their programme while rebuilding the governmental machine . |
| 25 | GEOFF Hornby had a close shave while making the first ascent of Peak 9070 on the south side of Mount Hunter in Alaska . |
| 26 | Changes of extracellular pH ( pH o ) were monitored just outside the cell while controlling the membrane potential by whole-cell clamping . |
| 27 | Inserts are a useful means of cutting away from the main subject to some subsidiary action while keeping the original sound going under the insert . |
| 28 | The GASB subsequently adopted an approach that is closer to the integral approach than the differential approach , though it is perhaps fair to say that the resulting list of user needs is closer to maintaining the status quo in governmental accounting while leaving the door open to the adoption of business accounting ideas in some areas . |
| 29 | In the previous section we suggested that a government could use taxes and welfare benefits to redistribute income-earning potential and thereby enforce its value judgements about equity while leaving the market economy to take care of allocative efficiency . |
| 30 | Instead of preventing proliferation , it has promoted it by allowing nations to protest innocence while violating the treaty 's inadequate provisions . |