Example sentences of "than we do " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let us praise , more than we do , and as we can here , the literal writer . |
| 2 | But it 's no bad thing — we should take the two way traffic of actors and directors more seriously than we do . |
| 3 | I do n't believe Pound knows any more than we do . |
| 4 | At any rate , in this way if in no other , the English ideal of the artist as amateur has a continuing validity — and one that it behoves us , as Poundians , to acknowledge more often than we do . |
| 5 | For all those countries with whom we are failing to compete invest more in education , in science and training than we do . |
| 6 | Transport , buildings and resources : We could share and network these better than we do . |
| 7 | America produces more of these than we do . ’ |
| 8 | You begin to enjoy the way people can say ‘ The National Health Service is safe in our hands ’ or ‘ Nobody deplores apartheid more than we do ’ or even ‘ We do not have a shoot-to-kill policy ’ and you know that another hospital is going to close and that there will be another stitch-up with Pretoria and that another shooting is going to be quietly forgotten . |
| 9 | And Yeo Davis charge a good deal more than we do , I can tell you . |
| 10 | We have , however , no more real understanding of this ability than we do of cohesion . |
| 11 | I have little doubt , however , that we would live a great deal longer than we do , were it not the case that the same evolutionary changes that make an animal fit when it is young may condemn it to deteriorate when old . |
| 12 | I do n't recall hearing Robin Cook tell us that ‘ other European countries ’ manage their health services better than we do . |
| 13 | I tell you those guys eat a lot better than we do . ’ |
| 14 | Douglas Hurd remarked at one summit that ‘ some of the other member states have less faith in their own institutions than we do ’ . |
| 15 | We feel differently about our parents when we are children than we do as adults , and while this may not alter our recollections of everyday family life , it will affect what we choose to highlight , and how we sum up our relationship with them . |
| 16 | We get much more happiness in investing in other people 's lives than we do in self-isolation . |
| 17 | When most people possessed no clocks or watches but lived more in the countryside than they do today , they took far more note than we do of the various timings associated with plants and animals . |
| 18 | The point of the story is that when I was using softer rods and he favoured stiffer ones we both caught , relatively speaking , no fewer fish than we do today . |
| 19 | Questions may look all right on paper simply because we accept a more formal style in writing than we do in speech , but they may sound absolutely frightful when put into speech . |
| 20 | This means that cats remain fertile longer than we do , in relative terms . |
| 21 | ‘ We may feel younger than we do now , ’ said Gay seriously . |
| 22 | No , I think we all have it in us , but they take intuition much more seriously than we do . |
| 23 | When we see such intelligence and feeling among creatures which outwardly resemble ourselves — chimpanzees and other primates — we accept and can recognize it far more readily than we do among more alien creatures such as whales and dolphins . |
| 24 | In the early days we ventured further afield than we do now , working in Suffolk , Berkshire , Wiltshire and Surrey . |
| 25 | Why is it that when one travels abroad , say in France , they have such a different approach to aviation than we do in Britain ? |
| 26 | We all think we eat less than we do ! |
| 27 | U.S. citizens score a little higher than we do , with an average intake of 27g daily . |
| 28 | Above that , you 're into boat chandlers ' supplies , and if you are building that big , then you 'll know more about the subject than we do ! |
| 29 | Harmony is compromise in many cases , some countries doing far more than we do in the UK — full-range blood tests , for example . |
| 30 | ‘ We 're picking clients up left , right and centre from all sorts of people who 've been charging pretty fancy fees and really failing to do any better than we do , ’ says Michael Read , head of the private client department . |