Example sentences of "[verb] as [verb] [adj -er] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although ability tests receive a higher ranking in terms of their predictive validity from these meta-analytic studies than they do from Muchinsky , personality tests were rated as having lower validity . |
| 2 | And there are senses in which this music can be seen as representing wider experiences , of workers particularly , within twentieth-century capitalist society . |
| 3 | The decision , reached by a 7-2 majority , was seen as having wider implications , since it dismissed the case solely on the grounds that those bringing it lacked the standing to sue [ see below ] . |
| 4 | Such a tax is seen as having lower disincentive effects than an income tax because it relates to past effort ; i.e. there is no disincentive effect to work for additional income that is to be consumed . |
| 5 | The Council Tax staffing report approved by the Committee on 7 October 1992 included outline proposals for the Control and Collection Sections which were noted as requiring further work . |
| 6 | Locals were defined as having stronger loyalty to the organization while being less committed to specialized skills and more concerned about the values of organizational colleagues . |
| 7 | Cosmopolitans were defined as showing higher levels of commitment to specialized skills and professional peer group judgement than to the employing organization . |
| 8 | For example , this is the pattern that emerges from studies of Urdu speakers in Britain described by Khan ( 1991 ) , who writes : Urdu thus emerges as having greater currency for first-generation than second-generation speakers . |
| 9 | Thus many more birds have been recorded as making shorter visits or passing straight through . |