Example sentences of "[noun] [subord] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | In one of these , the Clonard , she found that younger women used more nonstandard forms on certain variables than did young men . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 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 | Time had a greater effect on reducing the CCPR than did dietary calcium . |
| 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 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | The original double entrance doors to the booking hall had been replace by an utterly incongruous picture window as had adjacent booking hall and waiting room windows . |
| 9 | Serious political divisions within the Congress , whose proceedings were brought to a standstill in October over the impeachment of the Minister of Public Works and Communications and the subsequent dismissal of the Congress president [ see pp. 37771-72 ] , threatened prolonged instability as did continued labour protests against anti-inflationary measures , culminating in a 24-hour general strike on Feb. 6 , 1991 [ see p. 38001 ] . |
| 10 | If he had won , he would certainly not have snubbed the Oscar-night celebrations as did that year 's recipient of the Best Actor Award , George C. Scott , for Patton . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | These two new schemes operate with much simpler rule structures than had supplementary benefit . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | So you 're saying that they were driven more by there political desire for power than by their ideology because had absolute egalitarianism worked then they should have been satisfied with that because then they were fulfilling their ideology . |
| 15 | The company had more titles at higher levels than did other publishers . |
| 16 | In family B , all members had unique strains of H pylori as did one member of family M and the two unrelated individuals . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 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 | Mosasaurs , when not head-butting each other , were deep-diving sea hunters , and evidence of avascular necrosis in their bone structure hinted that they suffered in the same way as did human divers — they had frequent spells of the ‘ bends ’ . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |