Example sentences of "those at the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Those at the exiled Court became hopelessly out of touch with political realities in post-Revolutionary England ; many of them were living in the world as they thought it had been in the late 1680s , and their platform increasingly appeared to have less and less relevance to the new problems facing England . |
| 3 | Apart from children , the other groups most vulnerable to accidents in the home are those at the other end of the lifespan , the elderly , particularly those in the over 75 age group . |
| 4 | The centre and one end pair were fixed wheels , while those at the other end were radial . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But its major effect was to make life slightly more tolerable for those at the sharp end of the beat system . |
| 7 | And that 's a view shared by those at the sharp end of publishing , the authors themselves . |
| 8 | Severin Carrell finds those at the sharp end in total support of drinking-time cuts |
| 9 | It will be supplemented by the top 50 companies in terms of employment levels , and both tables will give those at the sharp end of the economy the chance to give their businesses a much higher profile . |
| 10 | Since those at the front shout loudly , you wo n't necessarily know that those at the back ca n't . |
| 11 | And bringing his experience of dealing with and understanding those at the front end of retail financial services with him . |
| 12 | If all incomes rise by the same percentage amount , then those at the lower end of the income scale will , of course , receive a lower extra sum of money compared to those at the higher end of the income scale . |
| 13 | How many of those at the lower end of this scale could be described as ‘ poor ’ ? |
| 14 | If all incomes rise by the same percentage amount , then those at the lower end of the income scale will , of course , receive a lower extra sum of money compared to those at the higher end of the income scale . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | They were gathered in the High Street and around the market place , but could not compete with the standard of living of those at the upper end of the social scale in the county towns and old corporate boroughs . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Those at the receiving end of policies made as a result of corporate arrangements — the policy-takers rather than the policy-makers — have often been forced to bear the costs of those arrangements . |
| 19 | By contrast , the research reported here suggests that controlling is not what British solicitors — even those at the bottom end of the market — spend most of their time doing . |
| 20 | The move back to full employment , an integral part of the reform being advocated here , will itself have an indirect effect on wage levels , particularly for those at the bottom end of the income pile , although it can not be stressed enough that the drive towards full employment must be matched by a commitment to improve the productivity of all workers — including those on low pay . |
| 21 | If one broadens that range and spreads it more evenly , one gets away from the present situation in which those at the bottom end of the range are paying more than they need to pay because of the way the system has been constructed . |
| 22 | Moreover , the oft-repeated statement by teachers that " children do n't understand Dewey Decimal Classification " has been consistently denied by librarians able to work with primary and middle-school pupils , let alone those at the secondary stage . |
| 23 | While this is less true , or even untrue at the bottom of the organization , those at the top share directly in the benefits of organizational goal achievement , such as seeing their stock values go up , deferred compensation , and fringe benefits … |
| 24 | Those at the top level had Di Tella 's confidence through a relationship of kinship or friendship and links between middle and upper management levels were based on personal relationships . |
| 25 | The qualities looked for in a higher civil servant are : intelligence ; fluency of mouth and pen , particularly in producing a persuasive argument and in composing a good ministerial speech ; the capacity to induce other people to carry out a policy that perhaps they do not much wish to carry out ; a political ‘ nose ’ ; the ability ( in a Department or a local or regional office ) to organise those beneath him or her ; and capacity for hard work ( many of those at the top work extremely hard ) . |
| 26 | It is artificially constrained in a way that ensures that the burden is not fairly distributed and those at the top end of the property range , and very likely to be at the top end of the income range , are being given shelter which is not justified . |
| 27 | In contrast , those at the top end of the earnings distribution will enjoy a substantial change in their after-tax income so that the income effect will be large , causing the high-income earners ( the dynamic entrepreneurs ? ) to work less . |
| 28 | The Manager of the package and those at the next level in the structure which reference it are reset to their original values for the package being updated and all packages which reference it ( see ( i ) above ) . |
| 29 | Right , we we 're not doing the minutes for the tenth of January because you 've only just got the copies this evening so that 's being erm , we 'll go through those at the next meeting . |
| 30 | The situation in this respect is better for those at the younger end of the group than at the other , but a man or woman who was 40 in 1978 was only 10 in 1948 ; an impressionable age and a time before there was much relaxation in sexual codes . |