Example sentences of "than [pers pn] does " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just because you 're older than me does n't mean you know everything . |
| 2 | She displays more sympathy for this anti-Semitic Moses , for this religious man who is against Jews and against the Soviet system , than she does for Jews who are not religious . |
| 3 | Involvement in these issue areas , together with the need to attend to management of the political party , means that she normally sees the Chief Whip , Foreign Secretary , and Chancellor of the Exchequer on political business more frequently than she does other Cabinet colleagues . |
| 4 | Leapor devotes a greater part of her poetry to the description of agriculture and to questions related to the use of land than she does to domestic service . |
| 5 | Pammy Jane knows Charles rather better than she does Princess Diana . |
| 6 | ‘ She thinks more of that old maid up at the Hall than she does of me , her own mother , I can assure you of that . ’ |
| 7 | THE Queen has always liked Fergie and gets on much better with her than she does with her other daughter-in-law , Princess Diana . |
| 8 | THE luscious Melanie Griffith has never looked sexier than she does in her new film Close To Eden . |
| 9 | Despite his elevation of Pamela from maid to lady , a solecism that Jane Austen would never have committed , Richardson makes a much clearer distinction than she does between the genuine landed family and aspirants to that status from the middle class . |
| 10 | She probably managed to make him pay her a little more before she agreed to do what he wanted — and altogether earned for herself in one evening more than she does in several days of being a parlourmaid . |
| 11 | ‘ Ellen , ’ as Bernard sometimes observed , ‘ puts up with more from cats than she does from humans . ’ |
| 12 | Lisabeth , on the other hand , regards anything male ( about 48% of the population ) and anything which moves faster than she does ( the rest of the animal kingdom ) with deep suspicion , and the combination of her moaning and Fenella enthusing was too much for me . |
| 13 | And he , erm , in fact puts in a greater investment than she does because he has to do the transportation , protection and everything . |
| 14 | And er , gets more excited about than she does English , you see . |
| 15 | He makes more mess in his bedroom than she does and his is because , not only is it all papers and books and toys and everything else , it 's all his clothes as well . |
| 16 | It 's forty one more in your book and loans , than she does according to that book . |
| 17 | Adopting a Formalist approach to the nineteenth-century realist novel would certainly involve a thorough-going change of mental habit , and the critic would have to work harder than s/he does when reading Joyce to see round the fabula and the realistic motivation ; but this is not to say that it might not produce some interesting results . |
| 18 | One industry spokesman comments : ‘ The overall performance of computerised management systems within the hotel industry relates more to the attitudes of managers towards training and the commitment of their suppliers than it does to the ‘ superiority ’ of the individual systems . ’ |
| 19 | That he evidently supposes that a 43-year-old woman , hitherto miserably infertile , could make cod claims on such an issue tells you rather less about Walter than it does about Graham Swannell 's flimsy and opportunistic approach to characterisation . |
| 20 | THE SAATCHI & SAATCHI share price responds better these days to gossip and innuendo than it does to hard fact . |
| 21 | All of which says more about Callinicos , and the limits on his knowledge and interests , than it does about the work . |
| 22 | So far , it seems to the Palestinians that the US listens less to the ‘ moderates ’ of both sides than it does to Israel 's still very powerful , if increasingly defensive , champions , the Jewish lobby , its knee-jerk supporters in the Congress and the media , who are still ready to parrot the Israeli ‘ extremist ’ line that Arafat is , indeed , still Arafat . |
| 23 | The West could certainly produce more than it does , but equally certainly not enough to deal with the huge population increases projected for the developing world in the coming century . |
| 24 | Most surveys show that a basket of food still costs a bit less at a supermarket than it does at an independent grocer 's ; but The Economist did not find that this week . |
| 25 | As Mr Cameron puts it , ‘ At the very time when most people want and need mobility — during the morning and evening peak periods — the system actually carries fewer of them than it does at various off-peak times . ’ |
| 26 | First , the dollar is still ‘ fundamentally undervalued ’ , and by quite a margin — that is , a dollar buys much less abroad than it does at home . |
| 27 | The story pays more attention to the rescue of the single family of Rahab , and to the metallic treasures of the city , than it does to them . |
| 28 | The first dog will establish the ground rules for the second dog and invariably , a better and more consistent relationship is established between the two dogs — quite often the second dog forms a far greater bond with the other dog than it does with the owners . |
| 29 | Mortality rates were high and many children did not survive into adulthood , whilst adulthood itself implied a much shorter lifespan than it does today . |
| 30 | On this issue , the decision of the parents should carry far less weight than it does . |