Example sentences of "[noun pl] than it does " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , for example , National Certificate ( level III ) Care requires higher levels of communication and personal and interpersonal skills than it does of numeracy ( see specification on page 7 ) . |
| 2 | While the price of doing business in Russia is high — the cost of office space in Moscow , for example , is rocketing — Hall reckons Sun kit will cost less in the Commonwealth of Independent States than it does in the rest of Europe , where customers are used to paying a premium for computer products . |
| 3 | The tensions associated with starting school could begin to be dissolved long before that anxiously awaited first day , a day which often causes more anguish to parents than it does to their children . |
| 4 | We must also remember that the Bible has more to say about giving to meet the needs of other individuals than it does about supporting Christian institutions . |
| 5 | It is amazing that , although agriculture in general faces cuts , if the proposals were adopted the CAP could cost more over the next seven years than it does now . |
| 6 | One industry spokesman comments : ‘ The overall performance of computerised management systems within the hotel industry relates more to the attitudes of managers towards training and the commitment of their suppliers than it does to the ‘ superiority ’ of the individual systems . ’ |
| 7 | While the price of doing business in Russia is high — the cost of office space in Moscow , for example , is rocketing — Hall reckons Sun kit will cost less in CIS than it does in the rest of Europe , where customers are used to paying a premium for IT products . |
| 8 | Those who have paid special attention to the interactions of parents and very young children say that the confusion between what belongs to self and what belongs to others applies with even more force to feelings than it does to bodies , and for very much longer . |
| 9 | Is n't it , but you do n't you think that 's more so for females than it is for males , the fact that it is such a dirty thing that , that applies more to females than it does , to males ? |
| 10 | So far , it seems to the Palestinians that the US listens less to the ‘ moderates ’ of both sides than it does to Israel 's still very powerful , if increasingly defensive , champions , the Jewish lobby , its knee-jerk supporters in the Congress and the media , who are still ready to parrot the Israeli ‘ extremist ’ line that Arafat is , indeed , still Arafat . |
| 11 | A pushchair for the smallest one , a bag of shopping , a handbag which carries more in the way of pins , wipes and sweets as bribes than it does personal possessions . |
| 12 | Empowerment on the shop floor appears to be more widespread in Japanese enterprises than it does in the bureaucratically conceived Fordist structures of Western modernity . |
| 13 | Perversely it costs more per unit quantity to pack in drums than it does in 5 litre quantities . |
| 14 | Particular backdrops were fashionable at different times ( and the furniture or background in an old photograph may tell us more about tastes and fashions in photographers ' studios than it does about furniture in homes ) . |