Example sentences of "the superiority [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only does it draw from what Pollitt ( 1986a , p. 159 ) describes as the ‘ belief-system of the incoming Conservative government of 1979 ’ — the crusade against bureaucratic waste , belief in the superiority of private sector managerial techniques and drive towards increased value for money — but it shares the same ideological roots as privatization and contracting out . |
| 2 | Monitoring is necessary in order to limit the tendency of team members to ‘ shirk ’ , that is , to increase leisure and reduce effort ‘ on the job ’ ( they explain the existence of the firm by reference to the superiority of internal monitoring through observation of the behaviour of team members over monitoring of teams by market competition ) . |
| 3 | Conversely , many ‘ liberals ’ in the churches in both America and Europe denounce ( but rarely renounce ) capitalism , or at least materialism , but praise the superiority of critical rationalism over Christian dogmas and tradition . |
| 4 | Here Barnett is opening up a whole store of perceptions , aims , and criticisms which marked out important features of the class relationship in the period ( and which were also relevant to age relations ) , such as the alleged pauperization of self-respect among the poor ; their grasping of excitement ; and the superiority of middle-class culture which made contact between the classes so crucial . |
| 5 | This optimism was borne out of a confidence in the ability of the social sciences to provide the basis for social policies ; in the State to administer those policies ; in the superiority of middle-class culture ; and in psycho-medicine to understand and explain individual behaviour . |
| 6 | the superiority of direct taxation on both the equity and efficiency scores . |
| 7 | Under this system China 's many satellites , including Japan , acknowledged the superiority of Chinese culture by making regular tribute payments . |
| 8 | Marcel 's reflection on the superiority of creative repose is therefore also a preference for metaphor . |
| 9 | The Quaker Cropper translated those ‘ laws which the Creator has fixed in the nature of things ’ into a campaign for the superiority of free labour , freer trade and particularly in favour of equalisation of East Indian sugar duties with West Indian in the British market . |
| 10 | Comparative land values indicated the superiority of free labour ; Steele 's Barbados experiment was taken as a success economically as well as morally ; evidence comparing hired out slave labour in Virginia with the maintenance of free labour in Pennsylvania indicated the relative cheapness of free labour . |
| 11 | And , on the assumption of the superiority of socialist organisation , the victory would go to the proletariat . |
| 12 | The tacit assumption in Alexandria and Antioch , just as much as in Athens , was the superiority of Greek language and manners . |
| 13 | In January 1916 Joffre and de Castelnau had given President Poincaré a vehement assurance as to the superiority of French aviation . |