Example sentences of "[subord] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On almost ail counts there was no evidence that the project achieved greater success in sustaining people at home than did normal services ( in fact the reverse appeared to be the case ) . |
| 2 | The separation of spheres was less rigidly prescribed for working class women and it appears that working class suffragists aroused less ire on the part of politicians than did middle class women . |
| 3 | In one of these , the Clonard , she found that younger women used more nonstandard forms on certain variables than did young men . |
| 4 | 167 ) says that the Corinthians despised craftsmen less than did other Greeks ( note the negative formulation ) and a recent survey of Corinthian territory confirms the exceptional variety of goods manufactured there . |
| 5 | The investigation conducted by Inkeles and Bauer among Soviet émigrés in the 1950s , for instance , found that the nationality of most respondents had less influence upon their political beliefs and values than did other variables such as social class and education . |
| 6 | An inspection of the results for individual questions shows that although fewer pupils in the bottom third obtained the correct answer in each case than did other pupils , a substantial proportion did so in many cases . |
| 7 | The company had more titles at higher levels than did other publishers . |
| 8 | Hearing people distorted the temporal sequence much more than did deaf people , with bilinguals coming somewhere between . |
| 9 | And indeed I would argue that Linnaeus , in his role as classifying naturalist , did a better job at putting the varieties of mankind into their mutual relationships than did idealist philosophers like Rousseau and Jefferson . |
| 10 | The movement of cattle , legal and illegal , had a much greater influence on Border life , particularly in its less amenable wilds and wastes , than did agricultural developments . |
| 11 | Chart 10 further shows that these industries also enjoyed much stronger growth in pre-tax profits in 1982–89 than did cyclical ones . |
| 12 | These measures , derived from the basic data , contrasted the two groups much more clearly than did simple counts of frequency of behaviour in the original catalogue of 120 categories . |
| 13 | In a survey conducted in the middle of March , a greater percentage of financial directors from the country 's biggest companies expressed satisfaction with Norman Lamont 's measures than did chief executives or financial directors of owner-managed businesses . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | What was of most interest , however , was that these subjects then performed less well in subsequent trials when the outcomes were made controllable than did those animals or students who had previously been in controllable situations . |
| 16 | Here , as fig. 1.8 shows , the CS when it was first presented to the control subjects tended to suppress responding ; but thereafter , these subjects acquired the CR ( which involved an increase in responding ) more rapidly than did pre-exposed subjects . |
| 17 | Time had a greater effect on reducing the CCPR than did dietary calcium . |
| 18 | The state services did , however , make a greater contribution than did informal carers to chiropody when that was needed , in all types of household . |
| 19 | On going back downstairs in her working clothes to do the washing up , she felt a quiet pride : not only had she now achieved the status of a married woman , but she had also had a proper wedding with a cake and an attendant — which was more than did most girls of her class . |
| 20 | From the 1890s ‘ neo-populists ’ , whose chief theorist was V.M. Chernov , placed less emphasis on the peculiar virtues of the peasant commune than had earlier populists , but argued that since the vast majority of peasants rejected private landownership and depended upon the labour of their own hands , they were already semi-socialist in outlook . |
| 21 | These two new schemes operate with much simpler rule structures than had supplementary benefit . |
| 22 | More addictive than 0898 chat lines to a sad , lonely halfwit , larger than said sad cases 's phone bills , and more playable than a Dead Kennedys album , this is one game no self-respecting tiletrasher should be without . |
| 23 | until took more responsibility because it was outside contractors you see |
| 24 | I almost got away with it until saw two letters |
| 25 | So you 're saying that they were driven more by there political desire for power than by their ideology because had absolute egalitarianism worked then they should have been satisfied with that because then they were fulfilling their ideology . |
| 26 | Others , like the now all but vanished Saxon cathedral in North Elmham in Norfolk , are the subjects of academic papers by the staff of the Ancient Monuments and Historic Buildings division of the Department of the Environment . |
| 27 | Tait , with William Thomson , had published a Treatise on Natural Philosophy in 1867 which became a standard advanced textbook because it treated physics from the point of view of conservation of energy — fathering the doctrine , as became two Cambridge men , upon Newton : the ‘ return to Newton ’ was for them the key to modernity . |
| 28 | They , as became self-conscious representatives of the Cohen tradition — austere , genteel , ‘ polished ’ — were not taken to the spontaneous expressions of liveliness which Masha 's Judaism exhibited . |
| 29 | " Adrian , " she said in a level voice that surprised her , " if you so much as lay one finger on me , I swear I 'll tear you to pieces . |
| 30 | Norris ended with two goals , as did fellow striker Dave Lancaster . |