Example sentences of "[adv] than it do " in BNC.

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1 The Tell performance I attended — at Covent Garden on Monday — hung together musically far better than it did two years ago .
2 Her gown looked expensive , Ruth thought , but it would have suited her mistress better than it did its owner .
3 Again this troubled Joan less than it did Anne , who wished her friend , as she insisted she was , to share everything .
4 Also , the drug seems to inhibit the viral DNA polymerase enzyme much more effectively than it does the DNA polymerase used by the cell to copy its own DNA .
5 Clearly , though , the description of being brown and round fits a table much more easily than it does wine .
6 It feels much better already than it did yesterday . ’
7 Not so , because the same axiom , every decoding is another encoding , applies to literary criticism even more stringently than it does to ordinary spoken discourse .
8 Even so , it seems that the species survived in the Tigris-Euphrates basin longer than it did in the vast area between there and the Punjab .
9 After all , one feels , Mrs Washington was surely a thrifty housewife ; had the invention of margarine occurred a century sooner than it did , no doubt she would have taken advantage of the development .
10 We can only hope that common sense will prevail more quickly than it did in the previous instance .
11 If wages had not risen , most of this scrapping would not have happened and productivity would have grown much less quickly than it did .
12 ‘ This hurts me more than it does you . ’
13 And since the discipline can not exclude psychological subjects from its accounts as it can psychologists , it has to consider the effects of gender variations among subjects more than it does among psychologists .
14 Even Salisbury itself — ‘ full of embattled little parishes ’ — resembles the countryside church more than it does the way-out zeal of Poole with its congregations of 19 to 30 year-olds .
15 ‘ How can you say it suits me more than it does Dana ?
16 Er , and I think perhaps that castle could be persuaded to show up just a little more than it does .
17 Bureaucracy distorts the tasks of social organizations more than it does in management , where ‘ the accumulation of bureaucratic relations does not necessarily decrease efficiency ’ .
18 The problem is that English law as a result protects property more than it does the person , as discussed in Chapter 3 .
19 If we were in fact to promote trickle transfer that would happen a great deal more than it does currently .
20 Erm I , I think again it 's , it 's probably the , the feeling of wearing it in , in confined spaces that might upset women more than it does erm men I do n't know .
21 This would not arise if the universal conception were to be theoretically dominant in a social psychology which resembled a universal anthropology more than it did a historical social science .
22 But the beginning of the end of economic growth in the seventies resulted in massive unemployment which affected the minorities more than it did any other group .
23 The loss of the holy day holidays might have annoyed the local inhabitants more than it did the off-comers .
24 Having said that , as Mr 's pointed out , in fact the new manual if anything er emphasizes the benefits more than it did previously because as you said , previously it required a fifty percent reduction in traffic to register a one decibel change in noise levels which was s perceived to be significant .
25 But we also , I think , all took the view , because that was what all the signs were showing at the time , that the crunch would come later than it did , and I think that was the perceived view of anybody working in Whitehall at that stage .
26 We 'd all like it to happen a lot more often than it does .
27 The 1970s were not characterized by an emphasis on the bibliographical aspects of librarianship , and the possibility of wide-scale application of McClellan 's ideas seem more remote now than it did 20 years ago .
28 Following the election result , it seems almost inevitable that Labour will adopt a commitment to some form of proportional representation ( writes Backchat 's ‘ things that seem almost inevitable following the election result ’ correspondent ) , although , ironically , it seems considerably less inevitable now than it did a few weeks ago .
29 The car has not been perfect this year , but it feels a lot better now than it did .
30 The potential political and economic gains ensure that the impetus towards a currency union in Europe is likely to prove much stronger today than it did in the turbulent Seventies .
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