Example sentences of "[noun pl] [subord] do [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As noted below , rural districts also tend to have far higher proportions of non-permanent mobile homes than do urban areas , and , while many of these are of high quality , some are in very poor condition . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In one of these , the Clonard , she found that younger women used more nonstandard forms on certain variables than did young men . |
| 4 | Exotic nuclei have more protons or neutrons than do stable nuclei , and studies of them provide valuable information on the balance of nuclear forces when atoms deviate from the most favourable ratios of neutrons to protons . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The group has access to a greater variety of experiences and skills than does one person . |
| 7 | It is evident that US and EC competition policy conform much more closely to the desired shape for competition policy institutions than does current UK policy . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Private customers receive more protection under the Rules than do non-private customers since the latter are deemed , to some extent , to be better able to look after their own interests . |
| 10 | With rat embryos , rotation of culture vessels , which ensures continuous exposure of all the medium to the gas phase , and , therefore , a constant oxygen tension , produces normal development over longer periods than does static culture ( 18 ) . |
| 11 | Having said that , as the figures given above indicate , the younger age groups , the 14 to under 17 's followed closely by the 17 to under 21's , contain far higher proportions of people who are found guilty of , or cautioned for , criminal offences than do older age groups . |
| 12 | A survey I carried out in Brighton last summer indicated that unemployed men report themselves to be much less satisfied with their lives than do employed men . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | However , neither constituency MdBs nor list MdBs have quite the same conception of their responsibilities as do British MPs . |
| 15 | Thus , small establishments in retailing and in hotels and catering do not appear to make much more use of temporaries than do larger establishments . |
| 16 | In this , modernized societies quite straightforwardly have more highly differentiated social structures than do traditional societies . |
| 17 | This chapter comes much nearer to explaining methods of gaining knowledge and solving problems than do other chapters . |
| 18 | * Older pupils do better at given questions than do younger ones . |
| 19 | More of our young people have higher education qualifications than do young people in Germany or Italy . |
| 20 | The company had more titles at higher levels than did other publishers . |
| 21 | In family B , all members had unique strains of H pylori as did one member of family M and the two unrelated individuals . |
| 22 | Dominant hens take the pick of the food and the roost sites ; dominant males also copulate more with females than do subordinate males . |
| 23 | Some sports magazines and shops sell weighted strips of material that you can wear around your wrists or ankles whilst doing other exercise ( such as suppleness exercises or when running ) . |
| 24 | The conclusion is obvious : long-term insurance funds hold a much higher proportion of longer-term assets than do general funds . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Among more closely related organisms , bats have very much longer maximum lifespans than do similar-sized rodents , and the flightless emu and ostrich are notably short-lived among birds . |
| 27 | The thick-shelled bivalves have greater lifespans than do other molluscs , and turtles and tortoises outlive other reptiles . |
| 28 | Artificial expertise produces more consistent results than does human expertise . |
| 29 | And it is likely that poor countries have bigger ‘ informal ’ economies than do rich ones . |
| 30 | Older pupils , who are still being taught in a more ‘ traditional ’ way , demonstrate a much higher degree of dependency upon Rick in their maths lessons than do younger pupils who are involved in the new curriculum . |