Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [subord] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he served on several Government committees of enquiry or review as well as engaging in a little more political manoeuvring than had been his habit . |
| 2 | Zimbabwe , achieving independence in the 1980s , faced leaner economic times than had Zambia in the 1960s . |
| 3 | Far greater numbers of girls opted for technical subjects than had ever done so before . |
| 4 | However , the conferences turned out to carry less political weight than had been expected . |
| 5 | One Washington ambassador of a small West European country says that America kept his government more closely informed of the progress of the ‘ two-plus-four ’ talks on German unity than did the West Germans , French or British . |
| 6 | Joan Collins who wears funny wigs as did |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The new textbooks tended to deal more candidly with Japan 's pre-1945 aggression than had been the case previously . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The contrasted physical appearance of the different " races " of man ( stature , body shape , skin colour , hair-form etc. ) originated as adaptations to life under varying climatic and dietary conditions as did the fact that resistance to particular diseases varies markedly in different populations . |
| 11 | Given the distribution of scores among their controls , we estimate that people above the upper quartile had at least a twofold higher risk of being admitted to hospital for acute myocardial infarction than did people with a score of zero . |
| 12 | The arguments of so-called radical democrats like Bachrach and Baratz had rather more direct impact than did disagreement over the nature of theory , partly because they shared some important ground with the pluralists . |
| 13 | The huge oil spills off Kuwait and Saudi Arabia and the burning of oil wells in Kuwait during the Gulf War in early 1991 did less damage to the marine environment than had been feared , according to scientists . |
| 14 | First was the argument that the urban is characterized not by any spatial or cultural boundary as had been contended by earlier theorists , but as the site of consumption processes involved in the reproduction of labour power . |
| 15 | Under the surface draining or thorough water-draining of the land had to be undertaken on a more planned and workmanlike scale than had been done formerly ; for now the below-surface drains had to take off most of the water and conduct it to the ditches , and had not merely to assist the wasteful system of frequent water-furrows on the surface , as the old bush-drains had done when they were almost the sole method of under-draining . |
| 16 | For secular courts , the consequence was a revival of inquest proceedings on a much more extended scale than had been common in the eleventh century , causing a demand for documentary proof that chanceries and monastic scriptoria were hard pressed to satisfy . |
| 17 | Clearly the whereabouts of those bottles , and the number of them , had been one of the P'daytabird 's little secrets , for Warnie writes , ‘ Nothing brought home to me the finality of the old life as did the carrying out of those bottles and putting them into [ the ] car — to see the mysteries of that jealously guarded secret room emerge as plain matter of fact bottles , and the cellar stand revealed as an ordinary empty cupboard was an unpleasant feeling . ’ |
| 18 | Er I merely want to comment on the erm apparent misunderstanding on my comments on windfalls earlier on , erm it has been suggested that we we 're tightening down on windfalls , was the quote actually used , erm , there is no intention in the local plan to er ignore the er windfalls , to actually deal with them in a different way than had happened in the past , clearly if sites come forward which are windfalls which are suitable in environmental terms then the City Council will give , as P B G one requires , the appropriate consideration to those applications , what I was merely saying this morning was the the likelihood of such windfalls coming forward , and the scale was clearly going to be substantially less than had occurred in the past , and the the figure of eighty a eighty a year , which was for a five year period , which was quoted to me , erm clearly would not be representative of my expectation of the future . |
| 19 | The flaw in this disposition was that the advancing Germans were not only more numerous than the Allies had supposed but they were also moving in a more extended arc than had been expected . |
| 20 | The hope that at least the disappearance of the Party might be one thing to emerge from a lost war was said in one report to be more widespread in rural areas than appeared to be so on the surface . |
| 21 | 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 ] . |
| 22 | The exclusion on the grounds of race of a people who laid as much emphasis on their own ethnic origins as did the Japanese , and who implicitly believed in their own superiority , appeared an unpardonable insult . |
| 23 | For one thing , the business of developing theory that was responsive to empirical investigation became a much more serious business as did the whole enterprise of methodology as a specific and distinctive branch of sociology and social research . |
| 24 | The 19th century English ocean bill of lading was considerably less abstract and incorporated or merged fewer possessory rights than did its 20th century American counterpart . |
| 25 | Later the addition of a third dimension in the form of cables and pipes sterilised the overlying surface as did the laying of rails to facilitate rapid movement by tram . |
| 26 | protestant theology , under German leadership , had more readily accepted the implications of Biblical criticism than had Roman . |
| 27 | The propulsive string motif of Jacksons , Monk and Rowe solicited warm applause as did the political recriminations of This Sad Burlesque . |
| 28 | No other country had such a highly educated corps of civil servants as had Germany . |
| 29 | On 19 July Roberts and Cross wrote to Dr John Lawrence at SWWA suggesting that the public had been exposed to a more serious hazard than had been admitted : they were told that they could meet Lawrence but he would give them no information . |
| 30 | The middle years of the last century were dominated in British geology by Sedgwick and Murchison , who both supported catastrophic doctrines all their lives ( though not in a strictly biblical sense as had Buckland before them ) . |