Example sentences of "[subord] [vb past] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On almost ail counts there was no evidence that the project achieved greater success in sustaining people at home than did normal services ( in fact the reverse appeared to be the case ) . |
| 2 | In one of these , the Clonard , she found that younger women used more nonstandard forms on certain variables than did young men . |
| 3 | 167 ) says that the Corinthians despised craftsmen less than did other Greeks ( note the negative formulation ) and a recent survey of Corinthian territory confirms the exceptional variety of goods manufactured there . |
| 4 | The investigation conducted by Inkeles and Bauer among Soviet émigrés in the 1950s , for instance , found that the nationality of most respondents had less influence upon their political beliefs and values than did other variables such as social class and education . |
| 5 | An inspection of the results for individual questions shows that although fewer pupils in the bottom third obtained the correct answer in each case than did other pupils , a substantial proportion did so in many cases . |
| 6 | The company had more titles at higher levels than did other publishers . |
| 7 | And indeed I would argue that Linnaeus , in his role as classifying naturalist , did a better job at putting the varieties of mankind into their mutual relationships than did idealist philosophers like Rousseau and Jefferson . |
| 8 | The movement of cattle , legal and illegal , had a much greater influence on Border life , particularly in its less amenable wilds and wastes , than did agricultural developments . |
| 9 | Chart 10 further shows that these industries also enjoyed much stronger growth in pre-tax profits in 1982–89 than did cyclical ones . |
| 10 | These measures , derived from the basic data , contrasted the two groups much more clearly than did simple counts of frequency of behaviour in the original catalogue of 120 categories . |
| 11 | In a survey conducted in the middle of March , a greater percentage of financial directors from the country 's biggest companies expressed satisfaction with Norman Lamont 's measures than did chief executives or financial directors of owner-managed businesses . |
| 12 | This was not supported by the results of the ICS , whose authors claim that their male interviewers actually uncovered more cases of sexual assault than did female interviewers . |
| 13 | What was of most interest , however , was that these subjects then performed less well in subsequent trials when the outcomes were made controllable than did those animals or students who had previously been in controllable situations . |
| 14 | Here , as fig. 1.8 shows , the CS when it was first presented to the control subjects tended to suppress responding ; but thereafter , these subjects acquired the CR ( which involved an increase in responding ) more rapidly than did pre-exposed subjects . |
| 15 | The state services did , however , make a greater contribution than did informal carers to chiropody when that was needed , in all types of household . |
| 16 | On going back downstairs in her working clothes to do the washing up , she felt a quiet pride : not only had she now achieved the status of a married woman , but she had also had a proper wedding with a cake and an attendant — which was more than did most girls of her class . |
| 17 | From the 1890s ‘ neo-populists ’ , whose chief theorist was V.M. Chernov , placed less emphasis on the peculiar virtues of the peasant commune than had earlier populists , but argued that since the vast majority of peasants rejected private landownership and depended upon the labour of their own hands , they were already semi-socialist in outlook . |
| 18 | More addictive than 0898 chat lines to a sad , lonely halfwit , larger than said sad cases 's phone bills , and more playable than a Dead Kennedys album , this is one game no self-respecting tiletrasher should be without . |
| 19 | I almost got away with it until saw two letters |
| 20 | They , as became self-conscious representatives of the Cohen tradition — austere , genteel , ‘ polished ’ — were not taken to the spontaneous expressions of liveliness which Masha 's Judaism exhibited . |
| 21 | Before 1967 Israel assumed , as did many others , that since the Palestinian Arabs had not achieved nationhood they would soon assimilate into the Arab host countries neighbouring Israel , if the latter had half a mind to allow it to happen . |
| 22 | Japanese mainframe makers pursued this ‘ IBM-compatible ’ strategy , as did many entrants to the micro-business , from Silicon Valley to South Korea , by producing ‘ IBM clones ’ . |
| 23 | Rather than regarding the relationship as essentially adversarial , as did many observers twenty years ago , the issue is now one of searching for ways to allow the two parties to co-operate to promote their mutual interests . |
| 24 | While the latter left no verse epistles , Sidonius did , as did other writers whose works are preserved in the Epistulae Austrasiacae . |
| 25 | What Dilys Powell missed when she described The Wicked Lady as a concatenation of ‘ the hoary , the tedious , the disagreeable , ’ as did other critics who saw Gainsborough 's films as a reassertion of an old escapist tendency in British cinema , was how much of an advance such films offered on everything of a similar sort that had gone before , and how they touched the sentiments of audiences who could no longer respond to stories of gallant endeavour quite as they could when it seemed that defeat was an imminent possibility . |
| 26 | He later attempted such elucidation , as did other philosophers , notably his one-time pupil Edmund Husserl . |
| 27 | Nanno received a pension , as did all policemen who joined when under thirty years of age and who served for twenty or more years . |
| 28 | On Sept. 18 alone , 700,000 people marched through Sao Paulo demanding Collor 's resignation , as did 300,000 demonstrators in the north-eastern city of Recife on Sept. 23 . |
| 29 | Anglo-Saxon archaeology has n't come to a crisis point as did prehistoric studies in the early 1960s ; rather it is gradually slipping into new directions with the establishment of a generation of archaeologists more aware that alternative approaches exist to be tried and which have been available for 20 years . |
| 30 | Among these a need for cross-curricular study featured prominently , as did various areas where curricular provision had yet to be developed ( e.g. the tutorial programme , a life-skills ' curriculum , curriculum provision for the able child ) . |