Example sentences of "than does " in BNC.
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| 1 | To Marmeladov , Raskolnikov , and the underground man , I now add Svidrigailov , because the chief enormity which is being confessed , or merely admitted to , or flaunted , or feigned , binds Stavrogin to the America-minded debauchee no less tightly than does the boredom theme of the ‘ At Tikhon 's ’ chapter . |
| 2 | But it 's unerringly steady when you 're pressing on , and lurches slightly less ponderously into a tight bend than does its more sophisticated ( and independently sprung ) 960 24v sister . |
| 3 | This idea or nominal essence will vary from person to person ; goldsmiths know more properties of gold , and so have a different idea of it than does a child . |
| 4 | However , the DUP still enjoys better relationships with the paramilitaries than does the Official Unionist Party . |
| 5 | On the specific idea of metaphysics , W.H. Walsh 's book of that title provides a rather more hopeful view of the subject than does Ayer . |
| 6 | Although Landry approaches her subject from a very different perspective than does this study , her work is certainly bold , thoughtful , and provocative . |
| 7 | By seeing the failures of women as sins which may be repented of , rather than the unalterable course of nature , she advances a far more positive view of her sex than does Pope . |
| 8 | Although some yield mutants less readily in the laboratory than does E. coli , this is because they are better equipped to repair mutations . |
| 9 | This finding is open to the criticism that it reflects no more than a difference between the two phenomena in their sensitivity — that the procedure in question disrupts some process common to both phenomena and that the latent inhibition procedure provides a more sensitive measure of this disruption than does the habituation procedure . |
| 10 | It is well established ( e.g. Gibbon , Farrell , Locurto , Duncan , and Terrace 1980 ) that partial reinforcement generates a higher rate of autoshaped responding than does continuous reinforcement . |
| 11 | The fact that in these experiments there is no evidence for differentiation may mean only that differentiation produces less powerful effects than does mediation . |
| 12 | Also a film presents less surface area to a chemical than does particulate matter . |
| 13 | ‘ A person who has symptoms of cardiovascular disease has much more to gain from reducing lipid levels [ because he or she already has a higher risk of dying from the disease ] than does someone with desirable lipid levels , ’ he says . |
| 14 | The mineral and organic matter that passes through their guts in the burrowing process is mixed and churned in the gizzard , the calcium content is concentrated by the calciferous gland , and the resulting casts , which arc deposited on or very near the surface , contain more micro-organisms , inorganic minerals , and organic matter in a form available to plants , than does the surrounding soil . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | France provides considerably more support for farmer retirement , land re-allocation and the installation of young farmers than does the UK . |
| 17 | If you have the misfortune to be wrongly suspected of an offence , the grim reality is that employment law contains fewer safeguards for the incorrectly accused than does criminal law . |
| 18 | A heavy bait , therefore , has to be tackled from a shorter range than does a light one ; a comparatively clean bait — a worm for instance , lying on sand or gravel — has only to be ‘ vacuumed ’ a few times , if at all , before the bream swallows it . |
| 19 | Similes may be dangerous , but it can be suggested that the man who produces a well-made brick makes a better contribution to housing than does the man who builds a large mansion on insecure foundations . |
| 20 | In the present study , the noun-noun combination does not produce any more reliable plural continuations than does the name-name combination , so such a contrast mechanism is not operating in the present study . |
| 21 | The production of aluminium from bauxite requires about 20 times more energy than does scrap aluminium . |
| 22 | They go on to say that the notion of ‘ intrinsic intentionality ’ makes no more empirical sense than does the notion of position in absolute space . |
| 23 | The babe at the christening has no more say in the proceedings at the christening than does the deceased at the burial , except that in this latter case , instructions in the deceased person 's will can be used to influence the form of burial . |
| 24 | As the penalty for making a mistake could be quite high , it is prudent to assume that more forms part of the character than does not . |
| 25 | The process of conception as such is not affected , and the scientist no more ‘ creates ’ a baby than does the obstetrician who performs a Caesarean section , an operation which has saved the lives of countless mothers and babies in situations where birth could not take place by the natural route . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Artificial expertise produces more consistent results than does human expertise . |
| 28 | It is true that the existence of the Cabinet is now acknowledged in parliamentary legislation — the Parliamentary Commissioner Act 1967 , for example , creates a privilege for Cabinet papers in connection with proceedings before the ‘ ombudsman ’ — but this no more puts the Cabinet on a statutory , legal , basis than does the dogs Act create dogs . |
| 29 | The ancient Hindu seers depicted the original cosmic creative process with somewhat more sensitivity , poetic visualization and direct insight than does modern physics . |
| 30 | Since a good deal of writing is context-establishing in this way , it generally reveals higher levels of lexical density than does , for example , spoken conversation , which tends to be context-identifying , concerned with giving the sharper indexical focus to shared lexical information which form-words can provide . |