Example sentences of "[subord] did [adj] [noun] " 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 | The separation of spheres was less rigidly prescribed for working class women and it appears that working class suffragists aroused less ire on the part of politicians than did middle class women . |
| 3 | In one of these , the Clonard , she found that younger women used more nonstandard forms on certain variables than did young men . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The company had more titles at higher levels than did other publishers . |
| 8 | Hearing people distorted the temporal sequence much more than did deaf people , with bilinguals coming somewhere between . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Chart 10 further shows that these industries also enjoyed much stronger growth in pre-tax profits in 1982–89 than did cyclical ones . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Time had a greater effect on reducing the CCPR than did dietary calcium . |
| 18 | The state services did , however , make a greater contribution than did informal carers to chiropody when that was needed , in all types of household . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Norris ended with two goals , as did fellow striker Dave Lancaster . |
| 21 | The party divisions between leading reformers such as Lloyd George , Mosley and Macmillan also hindered co-operation , as did personal hostility within political parties ( on all occasions between Mosley and Ernest Bevin in the Labour movement and intermittently between Lloyd George and Keynes in the Liberals ) . |
| 22 | Both Kepler Wessels and Adrian Kuiper , the respective captains , scored centuries as did Western Province opener Terence Lazard while World Cup squad batsman Mark Rushmere was also in the runs . |
| 23 | These sometimes interrupted the schedules , as did extensive reportage of elections , of local Assemblies . |
| 24 | More optimistically , facilities management company Northern Computing Services , acquired in May , returned to profit as did Integrated Engineering Products Ltd , which is seeing in 1993 with healthy order books . |
| 25 | In family B , all members had unique strains of H pylori as did one member of family M and the two unrelated individuals . |
| 26 | Another trick is for the dealer to buy his stock through a friend , particularly when he has special knowledge that the price will go up , as did one dealer on Helical Bar a well known property company in the UK whose share price then sky-rocketed from its post crash low . |
| 27 | This hit carpets and furniture retailing particularly hard , as did new furniture fire regulations brought in by the European Commission piecemeal . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 ’ . |
| 30 | 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 . |