Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] those [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm only interested in players better than those we 've got , and we already have very good players . |
| 2 | In fact , students who have taken a subject at A level do not , by the end of their courses , do better than those who have kept off it — as a recent study of economics graduates showed . |
| 3 | Executives who can produce a reliable ‘ diary of events ’ to a court or tribunal often fare better than those who can not . |
| 4 | Dr Benton found that in trials , university students who sat tests two hours after breakfast performed Medical Correspondent better than those who started the day on empty stomachs . |
| 5 | A recent survey by the bank has discovered that people who have experience of unemployment before becoming self-employed tend to do better than those who give up a job to do so . |
| 6 | Those clients who received regular reviews fared better than those who were left to bear the responsibility of contacting the relevant services when the situation , in their opinion , so required . |
| 7 | The new pathway students were not identified by tutors in the clinical clerkships , and unreported data collected by Dr Gordon Moore , who coordinated the introduction of the scheme , suggest that new pathway students tended to be assessed as rather better than those who had come through the traditional route . |
| 8 | The latter finding arose from an observation by Brown and his colleagues ( 1966 ) that patients discharged to live alone or in a hostel often fared rather better than those who went to live with a spouse or parent . |
| 9 | Beautiful people are often surprisingly insecure , more so than those who fear they are not pretty or handsome enough to attract the opposite sex . |
| 10 | Though residents find little change in the quality of living under these arrangements , they are generally pleased with the traffic calming that has resulted , though less so than those who live in the streets that have been completely rebuilt . |
| 11 | Indeed , as Evers ( 1984 ) found in her study , old people who in objective terms may be described as severely disabled may continue to perform these services , such as preparing the evening meal , and many function domestically more competently than those who are less physically impaired . |
| 12 | In practice , it may well be , that the police give effect to the spirit of the decision in Beatty v. Gilbanks that a man should not be held to commit an unlawful act when he does an act that is otherwise lawful merely because those who oppose him respond with violence or the threat of it . |
| 13 | We do not use them only because those we have employed hitherto have been sufficient for our needs . ’ |
| 14 | The audience recognise physical movement for itself alone whereas those who theorise and attempt to define what they mean by such terms as post or neo-modern , contemporary , avant-garde , etc. base their works on intellectual concepts which need to be discussed in words . |
| 15 | His appearance , conjured up by the magic of Central Office , had a curiously calming effect , and it was not long before those who had been so rudely awakened by Tebbit 's demarche , to say nothing of the sight of so many Scottish rumps , were , once again safe in the arms of Morpheus . |
| 16 | " Popular power " and " government by the people " are not , I would suggest , vacuous slogans , but it is easy for critics and sceptics to dismiss them as mere rhetoric so long as those who use them fail to specify what they imply , in practice and in some detail . |
| 17 | It was at first , through proximity , an extended family whose members were as strongly bound together as those who live within the nuclear structure . |
| 18 | Those who have been living near to parents or who have remained in very close touch with them , are going to feel the immediate absence of the parent they loved more keenly than those who have broken away from close family ties and kept up only a dutiful contact with father or mother . |
| 19 | Once you use this approach regularly it is surprising how often you catch yourself doing the tasks which feel immediately rewarding rather than those which are essential . |
| 20 | Indeed , it is possible that clinicians would treat cases which they find particularly interesting or challenging from a clinical viewpoint , rather than those which offer the most returns ( in terms of health improvement ) in relation to the cost . |
| 21 | For systems which have evolved on the basis of operational experience rather than those which have been created by a formal design process , job analysis rather than task analysis may be the starting point of human factors studies . |
| 22 | In an elegant series of experiments Conrad ( 1964 ) demonstrated that in transposing visually presented data the errors are more likely to be in numbers or letters of similar sound rather than those which are of similar appearance . |
| 23 | It is preferable to encourage those strategies which indicate a groping after meaning ( contextual hypotheses ) rather than those which show a grasp of surface features only . |
| 24 | We do see , however , through the examination of miscues , that children could become more consciously aware of the strategies they are actually using , rather than those which they ( and the teacher ) think they are using . |
| 25 | Or , as we can as well say , Even if any events or conditions logically consistent with a and b had occurred , rather than those which did , if a occurred then b did . |
| 26 | What I needed were points on the line which exist rather than those which are only theoretical . |
| 27 | We are interested in tools for the classroom in five years ' time , rather than those which can be run now . |
| 28 | Where the excluded creditors continue to be customers of the business , the purchaser would understandably prefer to use monies received from that creditor to satisfy invoices that the purchaser has issued rather than those which were issued previously by the vendor . |
| 29 | Secondly , in general courts are more favourably disposed to clauses which limit liability rather than those which completely exclude it ( Cf Rasbora Ltd v JCL Marine Ltd [ 1977 ] 1 Lloyd 's Rep 645 and RW Green Ltd v Cade Bros Farm [ 1978 ] 1 Lloyd 's Rep 602 . ) |
| 30 | Variety artists from the declining vaudeville theatres found new careers , and cinemas interrupted their programmes to relay the " Amos'n Andy " comic show rather than those their audiences ! |