Example sentences of "[subord] [vb -s] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Roberts , using statistics for 1960 , 1970 and projected for 1980 , shows how in six of the largest Latin American countries , Argentina , Brazil , Chile , Mexico , Peru and Venezuela , the urban population has grown at a faster rate than has the total population ( Roberts 1978 ) . |
| 2 | One is that the cradle to grave provision of welfare , implicit in the Beveridge proposals , has proved to be too expensive and that the demand for welfare has grown faster than has the national income to pay for adequate comprehensive services and benefits . |
| 3 | Ardnamurchan Point , on a fine day , more than justifies the long and tortuous journey necessary to see its beautiful seascapes , the best of all . |
| 4 | When the salient vicinity includes another moving object , particularly a flying insect twisting and turning and diving in a desperate attempt to shake off its pursuer , the extra benefit to the bat of increasing its sample rate more than justifies the increased cost . |
| 5 | Providing oral substitutes such as Methadone perpetuates rather than reduces the addictive disease and all its attendant risks . |
| 6 | You might be wondering why a word mask merely reduces rather than eliminates the word-superiority effect , since it effectively short-circuits the operation of the target word 's detector . |
| 7 | Beneath the castle he proposes to open a bay in the woods and build there a cottage that ‘ will give an air of cheerfulness and inhabitancy to the scene which would without it be too sombre , because the castle tho ’ perfectly in character with the solemn dignity of the surrounding woods , increases rather than relieves the apparent solitude ’ . |
| 8 | However , the DUP still enjoys better relationships with the paramilitaries than does the Official Unionist Party . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Patterns of starting and spacing , and of the distribution of family size , differ more by social class than does the simple average . |
| 11 | Erm it is quite clear from that that because the inner routes er are much closer in er to the urban area , they do pick up more of the local movements between Harrogate and Knaresborough er than does the outer route . |
| 12 | A positive aspect of such a map is that careful scrutiny of the data provides a more direct indication of the nature of a response than does the sequential presentation of information in verbal description . |
| 13 | Many believe that minority group members have better insight , more commitment and greater rapport with similarly affected people than does the general population ( Shearer , 1981 ) and that people with extensive professional training do not necessarily help those who are disabled ( McKnight , 1981 ) . |
| 14 | Critical path method ( CPM ) is a network planning system developed by Dupont in the 1940s and provides more information on the progress of the project than does the basic Gantt chart . |
| 15 | Critical path method ( CPM ) is a network planning system developed by Dupont in the 1940s and provides more information on the progress of the project than does the basic Gantt chart . |
| 16 | The local county court often has the advantage of being nearer than the High Court District Registry , its rules are less strict and it allows more steps to be taken by post than does the High Court . |
| 17 | A recent study … suggests that German basic education leads to better examination performance than does the British ; and Japanese schools have always insisted on high achievement in basic subjects . |
| 18 | In the present study , the noun-noun combination does not produce any more reliable plural continuations than does the name-name combination , so such a contrast mechanism is not operating in the present study . |
| 19 | The mineral and organic matter that passes through their guts in the burrowing process is mixed and churned in the gizzard , the calcium content is concentrated by the calciferous gland , and the resulting casts , which arc deposited on or very near the surface , contain more micro-organisms , inorganic minerals , and organic matter in a form available to plants , than does the surrounding soil . |
| 20 | It seems that I have much more faith in the future of coal than does the hon. Gentleman . |
| 21 | Its power as a discourse ensures that this concept of the subject has more effect on feminist psychology than does the feminist concept . |
| 22 | It can scarcely be claimed that this provides a much more authoritative or even revealing account of the composition of the Pactus than does the shorter prologue , but it is nevertheless worthy of some consideration . |
| 23 | The extent of this TNF α immunoreactivity confirms that the very high concentrations we have detected in stools during relapse of inflammatory bowel disease give a more accurate estimate of local inflammation than does the modest increase in serum TNF α . |
| 24 | The test of any methodology or specialized mode of study is the degree to which it illuminates rather than obscures the primary cultural values inherent in literature . |
| 25 | In terms of ( 9.8 ) , if denotes the jth slack variable in ( 9 .8 ) , we are seeking a non-negative solution to ( 9.8 ) with . |
| 26 | The content and implications of this document have been very widely analysed and debated as has the Tanzanian reaction to it , but a few short passages need perhaps to be quoted yet again if only to underline the very fundamental challenges it poses for curriculum planners . |
| 27 | The p&l account for 1990/91 and the balance sheet at 30 June 1991 have been restated to reflect these changes , as has the five-year record . |
| 28 | Geoff Nutkins ' fine work has been featured in the pages of FlyPast before , as has the excellent Museum he helps to run . |
| 29 | And according to physicist Tony Roth the Principle could well be true because many earlier broad cosmological theories have paved the way for later testable discoveries , as has the Copernican Principle , and even the Principle of Beauty which bore great fruit in the theory of electroweak interaction , which recently united the electromagnetic and weak nuclear forces . |
| 30 | Historical biographers tend to work within their own national boundaries , and to prefer as subjects the Good Kings of national history . |