Example sentences of "[adv] than we do " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Some , like the osprey and the peregrine falcon , which flies even more swiftly than we do , almost died out . |
| 2 | I do n't recall hearing Robin Cook tell us that ‘ other European countries ’ manage their health services better than we do . |
| 3 | I tell you those guys eat a lot better than we do . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | They read our body language better than we do ourselves , and signal to us just as they would to each other . |
| 6 | But it does not at all follow from the fact that causal circumstances in a sense guarantee their effects that we can predict those effects better than we do . |
| 7 | As for Victor — you probably know his whereabouts better than we do ! ’ |
| 8 | Although I 've no doubt you know better than we do what the opposition are |
| 9 | They know the short cuts and alleyways better than we do . |
| 10 | By the next Prime Minister 's Questions on Thursday she knew the policy rather better than we did . |
| 11 | Peterborough manager Chris Turner said : ‘ We could not have played better than we did tonight . |
| 12 | John Collins , again an outstanding contributor , summed up Celtic 's attitude : ‘ We were so low after Brockville , it was not hard to play better than we did there . ’ |
| 13 | And th and we 've sustained that now for several months erm much more so than we did when we did the thing at the end of ninety one . |
| 14 | We 're all aware that for th for their number patients with superficial bladder cancer provide an enormous amount of our workload , and for reasons partly of husbanding our precious resources and also because lots of these patients come up with negative checks reducing the amount of irritation and upset to them it would be useful if we could do less than we do . |
| 15 | We should be using e-mail for internal communications much more widely than we do at present , in order to reduce the amount of paper we currently distribute , and to send specific messages to individuals and groups . |
| 16 | ‘ Not in so many words perhaps , ’ said Mark , ‘ but they do manage somehow to make their wants known and perhaps even more persistently than we do . ’ |
| 17 | We live much longer than we did . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Notice in particular that we set out the Keynesian theory more generally than we did the classical theory where we assumed no government and no foreign trade . |
| 20 | And they came out sooner than we did |
| 21 | sooner than we did |
| 22 | I agree that it is better for the pigs to get beat in Europe , but it would be good if they progressed a little , no further than we did but enough to get tired out . |
| 23 | Even though forest lumped the ball in the air to rosario more than we did to chapman when we last played them . |
| 24 | Let us praise , more than we do , and as we can here , the literal writer . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | It means that we bring our disordered lives right into marriage more than we do in any other kind of relationship . |
| 27 | The Portuguese and Italians drink 10 times more than we do . |
| 28 | ‘ I think she misses our normal social life more than we do . ’ |
| 29 | We should be looking to educate and train all people a lot more than we do at the moment where driving is concerned , so that from the very moment you pass your test you can feel confident , other people can feel confident and we can all have confidence on the road . |
| 30 | When you come to internal democracy and how much , say , the pupils have , I agree with Bob that is a very tricky one and certainly you ca n't just transplant erm democracy onto what is really a rather authoritarian system , you 'd have to prepare and train pupils much more than we do and what I think is the most dangerous thing is playing at democracy which I am sure we should not do in schools . |