Example sentences of "[subord] do [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So it was much easier if you had n't got a lot of money to fake some action , and produce some fake Boer war newsreels than to do the real thing . |
| 2 | Next Saturday my Medau friend Camilla and I are each going to swim 100 lengths non-stop ( as the ‘ Medau Duo ’ ) in the national charity swimming marathon ( as you might guess , it 's called a ‘ swimathon ’ ) , so have been collecting sponsors , which is rather more arduous than doing the actual swimming . |
| 3 | There is no easy solution to this one , other than doing the first ones at a safe altitude , which means at some speed since it is difficult to fly slowly at any height or distance . |
| 4 | This stage of training an owl is much more difficult than doing the same stage with a falcon , because with a falcon you just stick a hood over its head and let it get used to all the different noises . |
| 5 | Both types of survey show a far higher figure for crimes committed than do the official statistics produced by the police . |
| 6 | Side-drum sticks being made of hard unyielding wood without a soft head produce , of course , a much harder and more metallic sound than do the soft-headed timpani sticks . |
| 7 | When seen in conjunction with the Cloister Court , of which it forms the northern side and which offers some fine Tudor brickwork , it presents a showpiece of a rather more homely kind than do the grand stone courts of some other colleges . |
| 8 | There are certain routine practices , customs and procedures in our society whose consequence is that black people have poorer jobs , health , housing , education and life chances than do the white majority . |
| 9 | Where they do differ is that they know a great deal less about the properties of social and psychological phenomena than do the natural sciences about the properties of the natural world . |
| 10 | Is he aware that that firm and many other people feel that the Governments of other countries in Europe give more assistance to manufacturers to sell to eastern Europe and the Soviet Union than do the British Government ? |
| 11 | The dominance of orthodox economic policies , cautious pragmatism and consensus politics reflected the mood of the British electorate in the 1920s rather more than did the utopian assumptions of the Die-hard remnant . |
| 12 | The deaf group were unanimous in putting ‘ accuracy of transmission of concepts ’ as absolutely essential and , interestingly , rated ‘ the ability to understand all signs used , no matter which part of the country they came from ’ , higher than did the hearing group . |
| 13 | There she greatly admired Monsieur Jerricault 's canvas , which though static contained for her much motion and lighting and , in its own way , music — indeed , in some fashion it contained more of these things than did the vulgar Panorama . |
| 14 | The modular , simulation technique appears to have been preferred by more subjects and perceived to give greater insight than did the optimal technique . |
| 15 | Again then there is no evidence that the project achieved greater success in sustaining people at home than did the normal services ( in fact the reverse appears to be the case ) . |
| 16 | The patients with gastric ulcer had significantly fewer gap junctions than did the healthy volunteers . |
| 17 | He decided to consult Mr Dixon , his English teacher , who was also his counsellor and , therefore , knew more about him than did the other teachers . |
| 18 | The relatively straightforward use of the transitive property in the first question produced a much higher success rate than did the second series of questions . |
| 19 | RS-ORS and RP-ORS promoted more water absorption in secreting intestine than did the hypotonic glucose monomer solution , HYPO-ORS ( p<0.007 ) . |
| 20 | In fact , on the whole , London — like Oxford — made fewer concessions to the liberal practices of collaborative seminar discussion than did the newer Institutions . |
| 21 | The ELISA technique proved far less sensitive for identification of ulcerative colitis patients in inflammatory bowel disease but showed a higher specificity than did the indirect immunofluorescence assay . |
| 22 | Of all these , Augmentations was probably the most remarkable , since its accounting processes were modern and it used a more rational system for collecting revenues than did the old Exchequer . |
| 23 | The Labour Government of 1964 70 appointed more , on average , than did the Conservative Governments during this period from 1953 to 1973 . |
| 24 | A waterfall constructed with a pool liner offers greater flexibility in design than does a preformed unit . |
| 25 | Of course , the ability to think divergently does not guarantee creativity , any more than does a high IQ . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Patterns of starting and spacing , and of the distribution of family size , differ more by social class than does the simple average . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 ) . |