Example sentences of "[subord] do [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fleshy fruits of the type birds eat are often thought of as primitive in many features , that is to say that they share more characters with ancestral flowering plant fruits than do fruits with wind-dispersed seeds . |
| 2 | Learn to be things rather than do things for the sufferer . |
| 3 | These native woodlands support many more wild flowers and bird species than do areas of conifer forestry . |
| 4 | Those authorities with a high proportion in low social classes resident within their area both devote a higher proportion of their income to education than do authorities with higher social class constituencies , and spend their money on primary education rather than secondary education ; the reverse being true of ‘ high social class ’ authorities . |
| 5 | ( The top prize in this group went to a writer who also started his career in these pages , Duncan Campbell , who now regales readers of another weekly with stories of government intrigue that clearly appeal to competition judges more than do articles on technology . ) |
| 6 | It could be that a researcher 's first paper takes longer to be accepted and published than do papers by established scientists who have had access to the research data of their more junior colleagues . |
| 7 | West Germany has a greater proportion of people economically active but they start work later and retire earlier than do workers in Pakistan . |
| 8 | Housewives experience more monotony , fragmentation and speed in their work than do workers in the factory . |
| 9 | As table 6.3 shows , housewives experience more monotony , fragmentation and speed in their work than do workers in a factory . |
| 10 | The second generalization , that kasabat kadis did not normally , after the beginning of the sixteenth century , make the jump to the mevleviyets needs only the qualification that " normally " must be emphasized , since exceptions do occur , though rather less frequently than do exceptions from the first generalization . |
| 11 | ‘ Gentleman Jim ’ had previously retired from the ring rather than do combat with a black man , but was tempted in an effort to curb the mounting confidence of blacks and re-establish white dominance in the sport . |
| 12 | The breakdown in sales of the VATable goods we stock fluctuates much more dramatically than do sales of books ; this is largely because of seasonal changes in demand , the start of an academic term for students , and the summer tourist season . |
| 13 | He found that harem males in herds had to walk farther per day to nourish themselves than did members of a lone all-male group . |
| 14 | The arguments of so-called radical democrats like Bachrach and Baratz had rather more direct impact than did disagreement over the nature of theory , partly because they shared some important ground with the pluralists . |
| 15 | Women at fifth and higher parity required blood transfusions twice to three times more frequently than did women of low parity . |
| 16 | Given the distribution of scores among their controls , we estimate that people above the upper quartile had at least a twofold higher risk of being admitted to hospital for acute myocardial infarction than did people with a score of zero . |
| 17 | It would superficially seem reasonable to accept 7.45 , but it should be noted that more of the highest third of pupils placed " pm " after the clock time than did pupils in other bands . |
| 18 | We saw earlier how children from poorer backgrounds were disadvantaged by their home environment before they reached school , and that a lower proportion of poorer children gained a place at a nursery or a playgroup than did children from richer homes . |
| 19 | Significantly more miners had had previous gastric surgery for benign disease , and significantly more miners smoked than did men from the general population . |
| 20 | As it happened , Seb had far more problems with the highly strung animals than did Carrie with the steady , patient cart-horses . |
| 21 | Subjects low in musical aptitude showed larger between ear differences on tests of chord analysis than did subjects of greater aptitude but within the same aptitude level there was no effect of experience . |
| 22 | Here too , such pre-training produced better test performance than did training on an equivalent motor task with quite different stimuli . |
| 23 | Irradiation seems to be able to mediate these effects in humans since irradiation for testicular seminoma or teratoma , which includes the spine , leads to duodenal ulcer more frequently than does treatment for the same condition without irradiation . |
| 24 | Thus , the left ansae subclaviae innervates most of the ventricular myocardium , and stimulation of the left stellate ganglion results in a greater overflow of adrenaline in coronary sinus blood than does stimulation of the right stellate ganglion . |
| 25 | At 37°C/80 per cent r.h. the atmosphere contains very much more water vapour than does air at 20°C/80 per cent r.h . |
| 26 | He may have met her while doing business with her father Robert , a tea dealer in Crutched Friars , or her brothers , who were all coopers in Stepney ; sales talk for the men , but softer words for the lady — one who was shortly to become his wife . |
| 27 | Later , while doing research on a poison used by South-American Indians on arrow tips , he discovered muscle relaxants . |
| 28 | The effect of the Court 's judgment was that insurance companies from other member states were free to choose whether to do business in France through an agency or branch on the one hand , or through a subsidiary registered in France on the other , without suffering any tax disadvantages as a result . |
| 29 | If the court finds a credit bargain extortionate it may re-open the credit agreement so as to do justice between the parties . |
| 30 | The third and final phase of the project will be devoted to the construction of an interactive training package which will be used to alert business personnel to the kinds of problems they are likely to encounter , the reasons why people on the continent behave differently , and the most effective approaches to take when doing business on the continent . |