Example sentences of "[conj] be those " in BNC.

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1 Or are those with lower IQs more likely to be exposed to lead because of social factors ?
2 Or are those on the right lines who maintain that Barth 's broad approach is correct and must be built upon , but at the same time opened up to permit more ‘ input ’ into theology from the natural and human sciences , as we shall find attempted , for example , by Moltmann and Torrance ?
3 Or are those back ‘ in ’ now ? ’ he asks .
4 Are those the candy-floss , Mickey Mouse jobs that the hon. Member for Bolsover ( Mr. Skinner ) goes on about so much , or are those people just sponging off the backs of the poll tax payers ?
5 Or were those men simply other lonely hunters of other men ?
6 Or were those who studied these sub-cultures romanticising their role ?
7 ‘ Mere busybodies ’ are probably not protected , nor are those who are induced to join a combination by the payment of money and have no other interest to protect .
8 Independent agencies are in a better position to offer personal service than are those tied to big chains , believes managing director Daphne Armstrong .
9 And as people they should be ‘ judged ’ no more , no less , than are those of us whose problems are perhaps less obvious but equally undesirable .
10 As we shall see in Chapter 11 on deviance , the activities of groups with fewer power resources are much more likely to be labelled as ‘ social problems ’ and be given greater publicity than are those of the more dominant social groups in society .
11 Teachers from non-project schools are as influential ( or more influential ) on the panel than are those from project schools , and there seems little in the way of visits made to successful project schools to observe good practice .
12 There is extensive research evidence that disabled and elderly people who are living with someone else , particularly when this includes a non-elderly married female relative , are less likely to receive statutory services than are those living alone ( Qureshi and Walker , 1986 , 1989 ; Arber et al . ,
13 It is less easy to believe that the large scale migrations of birds are accomplished by memorized landmarks and home cues than are those of the digger wasp and salmon .
14 If her figures are also valid for the geological research theses of other countries , then it would appear that geological theses are less often cited than are those on chemistry , as reported by Bottle .
15 20 ) , are stylistically closer to those in the Cupids mosaic than are those of North Hill B. The leaves and buds which comprise the floral scroll in the Cupids mosaic however , are more comparable to those of the central square of the latter .
16 Voters who live in class-specific communities are more likely to vote for the relevant class-specific party than are those not living in such communities .
17 Those with new , more productive equipment are prepared to pay higher wages to attract labour than are those with older machinery because the former can operate profitably at higher wage levels than the latter .
18 It is found that people with the rare form are no more likely to be smokers than are those with no lung cancer .
19 So far , this war is more popular than were those in Korea , Suez or the Falklands at the outset — though that may simply reflect the fact that casualties have so far been so light .
20 Revised structural objectives , pursued on a Europe-wide scale , can be no more effectively achieved than were those expounded by past EEC Directives unless they explicitly respect the social , cultural and economic differences within the rural population .
21 The soil conservation efforts ( in Lesotho ) were no more successful in increasing agricultural output than were those installed by the British during the pre-independence period .
22 Employment aspirations also differentiated the school-leavers ; those who aspired to manual jobs were more likely to obtain them locally than were those who aspired to non-manual work , especially professional and managerial posts .
23 People with a maximum hygiene index score of 6 had a relative risk of 2.03 compared with those with an index of 0 , and those at the 90th centile ( score=3 ) were 1.42 times more likely to experience a coronary heart disease event than were those below the lowest decile ( score=0 ) .
24 People living in new housing , whether estates , flats or garden cities , were more satisfied with their houses and neighbourhoods than were those living in the older areas , although there was more than a hint at the loss of street-corner sociability .
25 Moreover , some studies suggested that the crucial floating voters were not characterised by a high degree of interest , involvement , and knowledge , but by ignorance and indifference , and they were less involved in following the election campaign than were those who were keenly attached to a party .
26 First , Mercury and the Moon could have accreted from materials that were far less well endowed with volatiles than were those from which the Earth , Venus and Mars accreted .
27 And are those fires the work of such men ? ’
28 And are those his only duties ? ’
29 And are those hot chestnuts that I see ? ’
30 The central drives are those to which we gave considerable prominence at the start of this book , and are those associated with survival and identity , as well as with the preservation and expansion of family , kin and blood relations .
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