Example sentences of "[subord] do their " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another study , on Indonesia , has suggested that the TNCs are more liable to attract managers from local firms than to do their own training ( Okada , 1983 ) . |
| 2 | Because of their low ratings , some of America 's biggest banks pay more for short- and long-term funds than do their industrial customers . |
| 3 | We can not settle the theory of life histories because we can not be sure whether cave organisms put more effort into reproduction than do their relatives at the surface ; nor can we be sure whether they have reduced metabolic rates , which makes it difficult to sort out the question of adaptation . |
| 4 | It should be made clear that this is on a completely self-financing basis and that at an increasing number of dinners spouses now attend the dinner rather than do their own thing . |
| 5 | It is possible that some Latin American judgements that Soviet goods are uncompetitive are founded in the belief that Soviet producers take less trouble over ‘ aesthetic ’ qualities , such as finish , than do their Western rivals . |
| 6 | Instead , girls who marry or begin sexual congress before or around puberty tend to experience a longer interval between marriage or conjugal union and first birth than do their counterparts who marry later . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Certainly , the majority of today 's cars need far less skill to drive quickly than did their predecessors of the sixties and early seventies . |
| 9 | In France many noblemen , especially those of middling to lower rank , were so impoverished that they needed the king 's wages , which provided them with a better and surer income than did their lands . |
| 10 | Asian and Middle Eastern areas generally gave more trouble to the colonial powers , than did their possessions in Black Africa at this time . |
| 11 | ‘ The newer cohorts entered a politics that was dominated by the class alignment and divided their loyalties along class lines more completely than did their elders , those who had entered politics half a century before . |
| 12 | In JOURNEY 'S END a small group of British Officers have no choice but to do their duty in France in 1918 . |
| 13 | Customers of Tamworth can now dispose of their rubbish at the same time as doing their shopping , as there are now recycling facilities in the car park . |
| 14 | They read publications that keep them abreast of market trends , personalities , lawsuits and prices — rather than delving into art history as do their counterparts in Europe . |
| 15 | For predators make just as much use of camouflage as do their prey . |
| 16 | The financial problems of the elderly differ from one person to another as widely as do their health problems , so it is not possible to lay down any hard and fast rules , or to produce any magical solutions . |
| 17 | This has grave consequences for their children who ‘ do not learn as much from their mothers as do their middle-class counterparts ’ ( ibid . ) . |
| 18 | As do their land and sea counterparts , air carriers delegate the power to issue waybills to various types of agents . |
| 19 | Contracted out workers pay a rate of National Insurance contribution reduced by 2% , as do their employers . |
| 20 | The contexts in which they work vary , as do their personal and professional backgrounds . |
| 21 | Computer hardware companies , such as Apple and Compaq , found themselves in this position , as did their software counterparts Microsoft , Lotus and Ashton-Tate . |
| 22 | Since so much capital has external sources , the bourgeoisie have not come through the same phase of saving and investment , as did their European counterparts , but have moved straight to a consumption stage . |
| 23 | Newcastle 's major share of possession before half-time produced a crop of openings , as did their late pressure . |
| 24 | Could it triumph , with its Galileos , Einsteins , Picassos , Beethovens and Aristotles — thinkers and seers of Pacific origin , who will one day come to imprint their views and creations as firmly as did their Mediterranean and Atlantic forebears ? |
| 25 | All the cost-cutting tricks which the Reichmanns had learnt on warehouses served them well , as did their single-minded determination to give their customers what they wanted . |
| 26 | All proved to be fakes , as did their certificates of authenticity which purported to be those of Paris art expert , Paul Petridès . |
| 27 | No matter : The Marseillais went to Aubagne , as did their neighbours from Nice . |
| 28 | Governments were weak , ideological divisions great : in the press apparent pluralism masked what the left termed ‘ a financial oligarchy ’ ; banks and industry and other ‘ forces of capitalism ’ controlled newspapers , including titles that in the inter-war years veered to the right ; press barons diversified into radio — as did their successors , often illegally , a half-century later . |
| 29 | Their aggressiveness to cuckoos — whether real or stuffed — started to increase , as did their ability to discriminate between their own and foreign eggs . |
| 30 | She lived near by in Chelsea , as did their son John . |