Example sentences of "[subord] in [adj -er] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | It is also likely to bring even the larger authorities face to face with the problem of staff mobility — where the absence of one or two people attending an external course may be relatively easily absorbed ( except in smaller authorities ) , internal training is uneconomic for one or two people — and ideally , lends itself to a continuous programme . |
2 | The most serious attack by wood-boring beetles can cause structural damage , but this is rare except in older houses , nearly all of which have some kind of local attack . |
3 | Except in larger firms , unanimity might be thought to be desirable in the interests of preventing further splits in the firm , and even where a majority decision is available , a genuine attempt to achieve unanimity should always be made : save in any but the clearest case , exercise of the power by a permitted majority without consultation with the remaining partners would be regarded as being in bad faith . |
4 | The survivors I have interviewed mostly remembered going straight on to piece-work and staying there , although in larger offices , like Clark 's , some experienced Women workers did become stab hands . |
5 | Although in earlier days Oakridge had its cottage weavers , the mill was built specifically as a silk mill , the business run by a number of different concerns . |
6 | He subsequently went into partnership ; Stratford Mills were operated by Biddle and Bishop during the 1830s , although in later years , other tenants such as corn merchants , Reynolds and Allen , occupied at least part of the mills . |
7 | They trained to land in various numbers , although in later years some nine men made up the team in a powered dory . |
8 | So perhaps the total inventory of species during warm times is , in practice , as high or even higher than in cooler times . |
9 | Certainly , it plays a more important role in higher mammals than in lower ones . |
10 | We have many more people dying in the winter here than in colder countries such as Sweden or Canada . ’ |
11 | Wrangham argues that the formation of large feeding parties ( in which individuals actually eat less than in smaller ones ) may improve the reproductive success of a male community through increasing its probability of winning territorial encounters and hence females . |
12 | More detailed systems are in place in the larger firms than in smaller ones , as would be expected . |
13 | In the USA , income in the largest post-war cohorts is indeed about 15 per cent less than in smaller cohorts ( Easterlin 1980 ) and their scholastic education scores have been lower . |
14 | As the eighteenth century drew to a close , however , the situation was undoubtedly clearer and more regulated than in earlier generations . |
15 | Although Russia 's eastern expansion was much less extensive than in earlier periods , she increased her influence over northern Persia and joined in the international scramble for influence in China . |
16 | Revisions in investment intentions were generally smaller in the more stable and buoyant economic environment of the mid to late 1980s than in earlier periods of greater uncertainty . |
17 | Conditions were perhaps better than in the new urban areas but a good deal worse than in earlier times . |
18 | Surviving remains date chiefly from the Hellenistic period ; in consequence , the columns are taller and slenderer than in earlier times and have a wider intercolumniation . |
19 | Under the Tudors the age-old practice of making a will spread down the social scale ; far more wills were made than in earlier times , even though the custom was still restricted to a minority of the population . |
20 | The total number , though far higher than in earlier studies , is not so significant ; after all , we spent more time tracking in deep water than all previous studies put together . |
21 | However , the evidence on this has been vigorously contested , especially by Maureen Stone , who argues that ‘ no body of research has ever demonstrated unequivocally that the children of the working-class as a whole , poor children or black children in particular , suffer from poor self-image or self-esteem ’ ( Stone , 1981 , p. 8 ) , while Milner concludes that there are now higher measures on tests of black self-esteem than in earlier studies because of the rise of black political movements in both the USA and Britain which has fostered positive black self-images and consciousness ( Milner , 1983 ) . |
22 | Students in their final year will receive a lower rate of loan than in earlier years of the course . |
23 | Branding and voucher regulations were enforced much more consistently than in earlier years . |
24 | In 1955/6 budgets were generally overspent and by a larger margin than in earlier years . |
25 | ‘ We still have nearly 200 young people undergoing training on this site and although it continues to be less than in earlier years , because the business scene has changed , our overall commitment to training and development certainly has not . ’ |
26 | Table 3 , below , shows that although the limited duration of the present Call-slip analysis exercise meant that fewer issues were monitored in 1981 than in earlier years , the proportion of all issues which were in foreign languages remained remarkably constant , at around 4% . |
27 | It is a fact that gambling is less general in Britain than in earlier days , but if we are to become the leisure centre of the developed world , a review of our present legislation should be undertaken . |
28 | HMIs have clearly sensed that in launching their series of studies , even if their highly focused character may convey the subliminal message that they are interested more in mechanisms and techniques than in broader perspectives . |
29 | With increasing age the operation is more effective in resolving glue ear than in younger children , in whom such surgery may also be contraindicated for more general reasons of increased operative risk . |
30 | Mr Goodman adds that the company was fortunate to have started up in the recession , because services could be had more cheaply than in easier times . |