Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] their [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each smaller work group attempts to perform better than their rival groups in both quality control and in the number of suggestions they offer to improve productivity . |
| 2 | They are confident of doing better than their 6–1 failure against Old Salopians in 1952 . |
| 3 | When it comes to Guinness , can UK prosecutors do better than their American counterparts in putting Boesky 's tipoffs to good use ? |
| 4 | Oldies like ‘ Heaven ’ and ‘ Red Light ’ rattle and hum in grand style , far better than their recorded versions , while their latest single , ‘ Burns My Skin ’ , proves to be a glorious , bloodcurdling emotional release . |
| 5 | I met executives who knew the inside of a Concorde better than their own back yard , who had telephones stuck permanently to their ears . |
| 6 | Firth , Hubert and Forge report that some people get on with their mothers-in-law better than their own mothers , but for the most part these relationships are regarded as likely to be tricky : people treat them as an ‘ occupational risk ’ of marriage and regard themselves as ‘ lucky ’ if they work out satisfactorily ( 1970 , pp. 414–15 ) . |
| 7 | Now what has happened here is that on the previous public enquiry over the Tetsworth site , Tetsworth , Great Milton and various other Parish Councils have the defence of producing sites which they think are appropriate or better than their own site , and they mentioned Wheatley . |
| 8 | While there are some differences between these various studies , the broad conclusion which emerges is that while in the areas of arts , social sciences , education and business studies mature students perform better than their younger counterparts , in areas such as science , engineering , health related studies and medicine there is some evidence that they are less likely to perform as well . |
| 9 | These chambers all have the feature that they are far , far larger inside than their external dimensions suggest they could be . |
| 10 | The others had gone willingly , but the drivers had a feeling of resentment from the start ; army pay was less than their civilian earnings . |
| 11 | In the light of the above , it is clear that two matrices having the same modal matrix do not necessarily permute ; they will do so only if their spectral matrices permute . |
| 12 | The entire team will have the incentive to be diligent , including being diligent in monitoring each other , but individual managers will have this incentive only if their own contribution is identifiable , and in the nature of things this will probably not be possible . |
| 13 | The directive proved controversial , however , because of its insistence on the so-called " reciprocity " principle , which declared in effect that banks from non-EC countries would be eligible to enter the future unified market only if their domestic markets offered a comparable degree of access to EC counterparts . |
| 14 | She found it unsurprising that her lodgers , with the exception of Mr Landor , assumed she was Italian , especially if their own command of the Italian language was weak . |
| 15 | Staff of residential care establishments usually welcome more male residents and such men are ‘ a bit spoilt ’ , both for their rarity value and perhaps because their domestic dependence is more acceptable . |
| 16 | Subordinate males , on the other hand , were friendlier towards the infants of high-ranking females , perhaps because their own rank might increase if they managed to associate themselves with such females . |
| 17 | One unexpected observation was that the carrion-eating bees have an exceptionally high proportion of queen to worker cells in their nests , apparently because their high-protein diet makes worker bee larvae grow much faster than those of other species . |
| 18 | Conservationists tend to take a liberal view of working elephants if only because their very existence depends on there being a healthy enough stock in the wild . |
| 19 | Southern Europeans , alarmed by the thought of a wave of immigrants , are keener , especially since their northern colleagues will pay a larger share . |
| 20 | It also shows in their embarrassed defensiveness when foreigners wonder aloud whether their public life is in need of change . |
| 21 | Will he consider some way to enable those firms to fund the costs of developing and bringing into use new and competitive machinery long before their existing equipment is out of date ? |
| 22 | It is not long before their imaginative faculties are reactivated and word-processing becomes a universal withdrawal symptom . |
| 23 | ( This is because , on this kind of view , the fact that words are familiar affects their recognition only after their phonological representation has been derived . ) |
| 24 | He will be remembered as a mild prankster and anaemic lackey to the establishment , though the flavour of individual cartoons and cartoonists will be savoured long after their foster parent is forgotten . |
| 25 | This is not the case in non- autistic mentally handicapped children , who do well on false belief tasks so long as their mental age , by other criteria , is above three years . |
| 26 | Most of them are interested in education , if at all , only so long as their own children are at school . |
| 27 | From the outset , no individual or couple will lose more than £3 a week from the changeover so long as their local council spends according to government assumptions . |
| 28 | He is disabled , with a slightly handicapped right arm , and statistics show that jobless disabled people remain unemployed for twice as long as their able-bodied counterparts . |
| 29 | Tribesmen might indeed be benighted savages , but they could still stir the liberal conscience — especially when their very primitiveness and simplicity made them all the more vulnerable to exploitation by unscrupulous Europeans . |
| 30 | British garages also work more slowly than their French counterparts . |