Example sentences of "[subord] their [adj] counterpart " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most other aspects of personnel management are single-status , too , although IBM UK has gone with the national trend by providing cars for managers where their outside counterparts would merit cars . |
| 2 | This , added to physical fatigue , produced a considerable burden , especially as the average age of the full-time farmer was greater than their part-time counterparts . |
| 3 | In the case of the morning papers , it seems that papers such as The Times and the Daily Telegraph are much more difficult than their Swedish counterparts . |
| 4 | Before looking at the relationship between mortality rates and social class over the years , it is worth referring to some evidence which suggest that similar medical care benefits upper-class patients more than their lower-class counterparts . |
| 5 | Most of the friars became parish priests , and nuns received pensions , although they were probably more vulnerable to the change in fortune than their male counterparts and there were no church posts for them . |
| 6 | As Brah and Deem point out , Afro-Caribbean young women are stereotyped as ‘ pushy ’ , but achieve better in schools than their male counterparts . |
| 7 | Young women who offend often receive quite different treatment than their male counterparts . |
| 8 | Women tend to earn less than their male counterparts ( women 's wages were 73.5 per cent of men 's in 1979 ) , and to be in less stable areas of employment and more frequently in part-time work than men ( Bruegel , 1980 ) . |
| 9 | Women over 65 experience both worse acute and chronic health than their male counterparts ( Table 4.11 ) . |
| 10 | Besides being paid less per hour the majority of women employees in both sectors work fewer hours than their male counterparts . |
| 11 | They also use these variants more than their male counterparts , although they follow the expected sex-differentiation patterns with respect to other phonological variables ( see chapter 6 for a discussion of the Clonard pattern ) . |
| 12 | Furthermore , they found that female clerical workers were much less likely to achieve promotion than their male counterparts . |
| 13 | At all ages up to 75 , a higher proportion of women are likely to face caring responsibilities than their male counterparts . |
| 14 | Very elderly women were also more likely to experience severe disablement than their male counterparts . |
| 15 | The proportion of women in higher education has risen sharply in recent decades — one of the most visible gains in the egalitarian struggle — although in practice young female school-leavers are still less qualified than their male counterparts ( and this signifies , in this country , a truly parlous state of readiness for adult occupations ) ; while in the teaching profession itself , women have yet to achieve anything like parity at the higher levels , as college heads , directors of departments and university professors . |
| 16 | Are they more impressive than their male counterparts ? |
| 17 | In almost all countries , state-owned enterprises are far less efficient than their private counterparts ; governments , shielded from market pressures , are often careless and profligate investors . |
| 18 | The Western states have always possessed a more extensive range of military bases and facilities in the Third' World than the Soviet Union , and American strategists have relied on such facilities more than their Soviet counterparts to sustain regional and global commitments and military contingency plans . |
| 19 | Cell members themselves seemed to be much more impervious to the danger of possible political attacks on them than their nervous counterparts in Smolensk guberniia . |
| 20 | West Belfast Protestants , while suffering less than their Catholic counterparts , did much worse than Protestants in other areas . |
| 21 | They are under far greater pressure than their Catalan counterparts to be anti-Madrid . |
| 22 | In cage experiments , Kitching and Ebling ( 1967 ) observed that sheltered-shore Nucella survived longer than their exposed-shore counterparts when crabs were present . |
| 23 | GAMTA sees the fifty per cent increase — ‘ horrendous though it is ’ — as only the thin end of a very thick wedge which could spell ruin for many small AOC operators in the UK , already suffering the effects of recession and higher regulatory charges than their European counterparts . |
| 24 | This exercise revealed that the elderly in Britain were characterized by less income inequality than their European counterparts . |
| 25 | Overweight people tend to consume less fibre than their normal-weight counterparts . |
| 26 | Those who are thin and lean may fare less well than their plump counterparts at times of shortage . |
| 27 | Almost all the maritime alga-lichen-moss communities are richer in species and more luxuriant in growth than their continental counterparts , more so on the outlying island groups than on Antarctic Peninsula , and more on the northern than on the southern peninsula . |
| 28 | The people from whom the trade protection associations of 1818 were protecting themselves , were smaller in number and simpler in their wants than their 1918 counterparts . |
| 29 | The rewards for those who pursue such an undertaking are immense since Greek Literature and Civilisation are , it could be said , even richer fields than their Roman counterparts . |
| 30 | Many were little better off and little more contented than their rural counterparts , even during the years between the two world wars . |