Example sentences of "than did " in BNC.
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| 1 | This idea had a great influence upon the thinking of Schopenhauer who followed up its implications more thoroughly than did Kant. 9 . |
| 2 | Quite clearly , as costs were four times direct revenue , 10 per cent ( for example ) saving in costs had much more effect on the balance than did a potential 20 per cent increase in revenue , so energy was at first concentrated on the cost base . |
| 3 | In most respects , Britain spent a smaller proportion of the annual budget on welfare than did continental European countries with a system financed from contributory sources or with a greater mix of public and private provision . |
| 4 | No group in society , however , symbolized the alienation of key institutions from the government more clearly than did the university teachers . |
| 5 | The court , the judge said , had more material before it than did Mr Justice Henry . |
| 6 | Jack Charlton , the Republic of Ireland manager , did not attend Saturday 's draw in Rome but seemed more upset on TV back home than did Bobby Robson , who made all the right diplomatic noises in the Palazzo dello Sport without giving much away . |
| 7 | Chart 10 further shows that these industries also enjoyed much stronger growth in pre-tax profits in 1982–89 than did cyclical ones . |
| 8 | One Washington ambassador of a small West European country says that America kept his government more closely informed of the progress of the ‘ two-plus-four ’ talks on German unity than did the West Germans , French or British . |
| 9 | The approach of the police to the investigation of rape cases has been subject to much criticism — and then to considerable improvement — and it seems quite possible that these improvements , together with the advent of rape-crisis centres and victim-support facilities , have led more women to report rapes than did so formerly . |
| 10 | Monastic worship shaped the religious feeling of early medieval society more than did any other single factor . |
| 11 | Whatever he wrote about Kirkwoods of past ages , no one could have written a better tribute to a family than did Thomson when he described Major Kirkwood and the rest of the present-day family . |
| 12 | She hardly saw them , but their presence at night made her feel easier than did Maria 's and she slept better . |
| 13 | He has also convinced the Scots he cares far more about their future than did his predecessor , Mrs Thatcher . |
| 14 | ‘ He found , after allowing for some 37 factors not related to lead , ’ says Price , ‘ that those children having high lead levels in their teeth did significantly less well in tests than did those with low levels . ’ |
| 15 | He found that harem males in herds had to walk farther per day to nourish themselves than did members of a lone all-male group . |
| 16 | Hopefully , the year ended in better spirits than did its finances , for bond and loan interests and fees were waived yet again . |
| 17 | Some health professionals even argued that they learnt more from the process than did the ‘ recipient ’ villagers . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | But subjects given vinegar followed by sucrose ( VS ) during pre-exposure showed no latent inhibition , consuming no more vinegar on test than did control subjects . |
| 21 | Here too , such pre-training produced better test performance than did training on an equivalent motor task with quite different stimuli . |
| 22 | As fig. 5.12 shows , these subjects learned the test more readily than did control subjects that were trained on the same task but had received initial Pavlovian training in which the tone and clicker were uncorrelated with reinforcer type . |
| 23 | Many fewer people leave school at 16 than did when the examinations were introduced ; and more every year are being encouraged to stay at school or to leave only to go to sixth-form college , college of further education , or wherever else they may receive education that will lead to a higher accreditation . |
| 24 | A far greater number of women work in television than did ten or fifteen years ago , but , as far as the industry is concerned , women and women 's issues are off the agenda ; non-subjects . |
| 25 | A born raconteur , the racy style of his lectures , with his well known yarns — the most famous being that of the ‘ Woman who did ’ — I suspect got more chemistry into our thick heads than did the much admired cool , classic perfection of the lectures of Prof F. L. Pyman . |
| 26 | Again then there is no evidence that the project achieved greater success in sustaining people at home than did the normal services ( in fact the reverse appears to be the case ) . |
| 27 | 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 ) . |
| 28 | In the study carried out by Blackmore she found that a cotton towel removed bacteria more efficiently than did paper towels but concluded that both types of towel were far superior to warm air drying methods . |
| 29 | This is not surprising — Labour offered far more to those in the cities than did the Conservatives . |
| 30 | One will be concerned with their legitimacy and whether their writ carries more weight with higher authorities , the local community and providers than did that of their predecessors . |