Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] than do " in BNC.
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| 1 | But finished goods generally have a much higher value to weight ratio than do raw materials , and accordingly it was on the transit costs of the latter that canals had their most marked effect . |
| 2 | The patients with gastric ulcer had significantly fewer gap junctions than did the healthy volunteers . |
| 3 | They would certainly make a safer choice for a first aeroplane after the club trike than does the twitchy taildragging Silvaire and its lookalike cousins . |
| 4 | Deaf people did 16 per cent less well in a comprehension test than did hearing people , giving rise to three possibilities : that sign language is less efficient ; that deaf students are less knowledgeable and able to take in less information ; and that sign language interpreters are not efficient . |
| 5 | They show that animals pre-exposed once to vinegar before a conditioning trial with this flavour consumed more vinegar on the test trials than did control subjects not given pre-exposure . |
| 6 | During the 1770s and 1780s the Congregationalists built more chapels in south Yorkshire than did the Methodists , but significantly they erected no new buildings between 1836 and 1851 , whereas at that time the various forms of Methodism were building chapels enthusiastically . |
| 7 | Here too , such pre-training produced better test performance than did training on an equivalent motor task with quite different stimuli . |
| 8 | Possibly the Allan Hills present a more complete barrier to ice flow than do the Yamato Mountains , which may let numerous specimens ride past them . |
| 9 | So the president of Y Products manages more people , governs a greater share of corporate resources , and earns a lot more money for the parent company than does the president of Z Press . |
| 10 | The reality is the T U C provides training for more G M B representatives than does our own training programme and very often at considerably less , less cost , and certainly in my region , where we have a very close relationship with the T U , T U C , the training is of a very high standard . |
| 11 | We can see that the CCCS presented a different picture of youth leisure styles than did the Albemarle Report . |
| 12 | So it was much easier if you had n't got a lot of money to fake some action , and produce some fake Boer war newsreels than to do the real thing . |
| 13 | It has been observed , for example , that British firms find it easier to persuade workers to accept redundancies but harder to obtain flexibility of working practices and job demarcations than do their French counterparts . |
| 14 | A recent study … suggests that German basic education leads to better examination performance than does the British ; and Japanese schools have always insisted on high achievement in basic subjects . |
| 15 | Subjects low in musical aptitude showed larger between ear differences on tests of chord analysis than did subjects of greater aptitude but within the same aptitude level there was no effect of experience . |
| 16 | On the other hand , its civil servants probably have less training in business evaluation than do private sector analysts , and , of greatest importance , there is the overwhelming political temptation for the government of the day to hijack the nationalized industries and make them an instrument of whatever is the pressing problem of the day . |
| 17 | She cared no more for Mrs Monro than did anyone else , but the mother of my groom should , by rights , be beyond criticism , a positive bonus to my marriage , and even my mother , inclined as she was , to the bright side could n't overtly claim this . |
| 18 | More of our young people have higher education qualifications than do young people in Germany or Italy . |
| 19 | Older pupils , who are still being taught in a more ‘ traditional ’ way , demonstrate a much higher degree of dependency upon Rick in their maths lessons than do younger pupils who are involved in the new curriculum . |
| 20 | At 37°C/80 per cent r.h. the atmosphere contains very much more water vapour than does air at 20°C/80 per cent r.h . |
| 21 | In fact , on the whole , London — like Oxford — made fewer concessions to the liberal practices of collaborative seminar discussion than did the newer Institutions . |
| 22 | It is evident that US and EC competition policy conform much more closely to the desired shape for competition policy institutions than does current UK policy . |
| 23 | BR has a somewhat longer network , employs more than twice as many railway staff and carries considerably more passenger traffic than does RENFE . |
| 24 | The patients with recurrent ulcers had significantly fewer gap gunctions in the ulcer margin than did the patients with first onset ulcer ( Table III ) . |
| 25 | Despite a disconcerting 85% plunge in net profits to just $94.5m , Fujitsu Ltd , bolstered by the acquisition of ICL Plc is putting rapidly increasing distance between itself and the other contenders for the title ‘ world 's second-biggest computer company ’ : some commentators illegitimately eliminate Fujitsu 's semiconductor sales from the total simply because the company sells more of its chip output on the merchant market than do IBM Corp , Digital Equipment Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co , but all of Fujitsu 's $26,640m annual turnover is information technology-related — and the company is now nearly twice the size of the $14,000m-a-year DEC , and well over a third the size of IBM ; only a decade ago , IBM was more like 10 times the size of the next biggest computer manufacturer . |
| 26 | The relatively straightforward use of the transitive property in the first question produced a much higher success rate than did the second series of questions . |
| 27 | It is suggested that this accounts , at least in part , for the fact that in most developing and some developed countries infants and young children of rural mothers generally face a lower probability of defeating life hazards than do those born to urban mothers . |
| 28 | There are certain routine practices , customs and procedures in our society whose consequence is that black people have poorer jobs , health , housing , education and life chances than do the white majority . |
| 29 | A restaurant seating 100 obviously presents a greater risk of food poisoning than does a shop selling only wrapped goods and needs to dedicate commensurate resources to staff training . |
| 30 | However , there are major differences in the use of bank finance ; France , Japan and Germany fund a higher proportion of their financing needs by bank loans than do the US and the UK . |