Example sentences of "[subord] [vb past] other [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The company had more titles at higher levels than did other publishers . |
| 5 | The third party then exercised those rights , as did other minority shareholders owning 40% of the remaining 45% of the company 's share capital ; therefore 95% of the rights issue was taken up . |
| 6 | While the latter left no verse epistles , Sidonius did , as did other writers whose works are preserved in the Epistulae Austrasiacae . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He later attempted such elucidation , as did other philosophers , notably his one-time pupil Edmund Husserl . |
| 9 | Marko served with the sultan 's army , as did other Serbs who accepted the status of tributary princes , including Prince Lazar 's son , Stephen Lazarević . |
| 10 | Many Christians continued to take part in traditional Roman festivities ; they sometimes shocked their bishops by dancing in church , getting drunk at celebrations in the cemeteries , consulting magicians , or resorting to charms to cure their troubles , just as did other people . |
| 11 | In contrast , surplus countries argued that the USA should solve her balance of payments problems by introducing expenditure-reducing policies at home , as had other countries . |