Example sentences of "to be superior to " in BNC.
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| 1 | They lie in why the restructuring took place and in the forms of ownership and capital structure that were assumed to be superior to the old . |
| 2 | Never again will they imagine that to be an administrator is to be superior to being a cleaner . |
| 3 | Subsequent tests show discrimination between A and C to be superior to that between A and B. |
| 4 | for these re ; sons , the Focused model is considered to be superior to the Shotgun model . |
| 5 | Amis 's admiring study of Fleming , The James Bond Dossier ( 1965 ) , acknowledged much of all that with a characteristic bluntness , and in ‘ a spiteful tangent ’ or side-swipe against Eliot and Modernism he remarked that ‘ a few mentions of ( say ) Nestlé 's condensed milk , Woodbines , Spinks 's plum-and-apple jam and Scotch-and-Apollinaris would have done The Waste Land a world of good ’ , the lack of a socio-temporal context having left Eliot 's poem ‘ just one more of the featureless , flavourless lumps of cultural lumber it purports to be superior to ’ . |
| 6 | Ref. 8 used the Northern Hemisphere , land-based temperature record as an indicator of global change , claiming these data to be superior to the full global data set , but this is incorrect . |
| 7 | In many situations the male is thought to be superior to the female , but not in all ; in some situations an object or person can be profane , in others sacred . |
| 8 | Almost all experimental studies have shown in vivo training to be superior to the use of tape recorded instructions . |
| 9 | Cripps et al found PVS to be superior to any other prognostic indicator . |
| 10 | This is because physical science can be superior as a method of investigation and scholarship only if it has something to be superior to . |
| 11 | The village of Uppercross in Persuasion ( 1818 ) , for example , ‘ had been completely in the old English style ’ , two houses only showing themselves to be superior to the dwellings of yeomen and labourers : the squire 's mansion with its high walls and great gates , and ‘ the compact , tight parsonage , enclosed in its own neat garden ’ . |
| 12 | On all of their criteria they conclude that a school-based approach is likely to be superior to either one based upon testing or inspection . |
| 13 | Emphasis must be put on the task , individuals must accept the need to modify their views for its sake , and group effort must be seen to be superior to individual effort . |
| 14 | The coffee in France always seemed to be superior to the coffee in England , and he had made it just right . |
| 15 | The theoretical advantage of this technique is that it deals directly with the oesophageal varices without affecting liver perfusion : a prospective study has shown it to be superior to standard and distal splenorenal shunts in patients with portal hypertension secondary to schistosomiasis . |
| 16 | This was pounced on by 34 of Darlington 's 44 GPs who said there was a clear implication Mr Fallon believed those fund-holding surgeries to be superior to the others . |