Example sentences of "[subord] those at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such questions have been raised in the world of education , where those at the chalkface are fed-up with being assessed and put into league tables . |
| 2 | The seats were all reversible except those at the canopy ends , which were fixed ; they had three plank solid backs to foil pickpockets . |
| 3 | Observations made to date indicate that , on the average , the concentrations at the Allan Hills are denser and the specimens somewhat larger than those at the Yamato Mountains area . |
| 4 | The showrooms of the House of Oliver were smaller and less grand than those at the House of Mattli but the décor was newer and fresher , pale grey drapes , ultra modern black furniture and a great deal of gleaming stainless steel . |
| 5 | The disparities at the retail level are much bigger than those at the wholesale one . |
| 6 | BA wants to put Gatwick-based pilots , cabin crew and ground staff on lower rates of pay than those at the airline 's main base at Heathrow . |
| 7 | Very frequently people closer to today 's marketplace than to the board are more realistic about the possibilities for their business than those at the top . |
| 8 | It is a reasonable assumption — though little more than an assumption that ads in the categories at the lower end of the scale as it appears on the page will be more closely studied , and more thoroughly and consciously used by purchasers , than those at the upper end of the scale . |
| 9 | The boat hull and light aluminium masks and white roller jibs have to come down in tone to a light grey , and the varnished wood spars have to be darker ochre than those at the top . |
| 10 | Finally , it is possible , where the stony surface lies above a weathered soil profile , for the whole thing to be due to differential weathering , the stones in the lower part of the profile being weathered more rapidly than those at the surface due to the greater likelihood of a damp environment below . |
| 11 | The basic components of Maslow 's theory are often presented as a pyramid , but this seems to imply that those needs situated at the top of the pyramid are more important than those at the bottom . |
| 12 | There are several spine-like papillae at the apex of the jaw , distal to these papillae the jaw appears to be covered by irregularly spaced oral papillae which are smaller and more rounded than those at the apex . |
| 13 | Primary-school teachers have to work harder at reducing their remoteness from large aspects of policy than those at the secondary or FE stages . |
| 14 | The excess mortality is not limited to underground workers , since workers above ground have a raised standardised mortality ratio ( SMR ) for gastric cancer ( 143 ) , which is similar to that for underground workers other than those at the coal face ( SMR 144 ) . |
| 15 | If those at the Tate do not believe that the acquisition of one picture a year is sufficient to keep its contemporary art collection up to date , the Government could tell them to use the powers in the Bill to dispose of works of art . |
| 16 | The advantages of a centralized policy are the speed and scale of reform it allows ; the disadvantages , particularly in a complex arena like education , are the resistance and disaffection it may generate , and the inevitability that the practice which emerges will be rather different from that intended because those at the receiving end may have insufficient understanding or commitment to secure its implementation . |
| 17 | Since those at the front shout loudly , you wo n't necessarily know that those at the back ca n't . |
| 18 | Between 1979 and 1989 those at the highest decile ( ie those earning more than 90 per cent and less than 10 per cent of the population ) increased their real income by 36.6 per cent whereas those at the lowest decile ( ie those earning more than 10 per cent and less than 90 per cent of the population ) who increased their real income by only 5.7 per cent . |
| 19 | The centre and one end pair were fixed wheels , while those at the other end were radial . |
| 20 | When those at the level of schools read about allegations of incompetence on the part of the earlier separate Universities Funding Council and about the individual difficulties of separate universities , they felt frustration about the apparent misuse of money in other sectors or believed that if other people got their sums wrong , they in schools should also have been excused . |