Example sentences of "[pron] operate [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Voluntary organisations which operate at a regional level would be severely disadvantaged by the proposals in the White Paper . |
| 2 | The Commission have more recently proposed a Directive on establishing European works councils that provides for informing and consulting employees within certain sized undertakings which operate on a Community-wide scale [ see pp. 45–6 ] . |
| 3 | Over the past few years , many companies have set up contracted-out money purchase schemes — or COMPS , as they are known for short — which operate on a different principle from final salary schemes . |
| 4 | Such comparisons suggest a fixed set of symbols or rules which operate in a fixed way , whereas this is only partially true of language . |
| 5 | The University of Edinburgh is essentially a university within a city , unlike many British universities which operate in a large ‘ single-campus ’ area . |
| 6 | You operate on a living body . ’ |
| 7 | At its root is the premise that by more openly sharing with one another both our long-term strategies and how we operate on a day-to-day basis , we will actually be able to improve both our businesses . ’ |
| 8 | At its root in the premise that by more openly sharing with one another both our long-term strategies and how we operate on a day-to-day basis , we will actually be able to improve both our businesses . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ We operate from a comprehensive manual of quality standards listing tasks and procedures , ’ he says . |
| 10 | Bona fide NVOCC 's , on the other hand , feel that they operate at a competitive disadvantage with regard to unscrupulous NVOCC 's which seem able to disregard the 1984 Shipping Act with impunity . |
| 11 | Essentially they operate on a short-term basis in the context of intense international competition . |
| 12 | They operate on a different plane altogether . |
| 13 | But since they operate in a real world , their force and the respect they can command depends to a very considerable extent on the degree to which they take account of the real world . |
| 14 | They operate in a hard commercial environment . |
| 15 | The evidence suggests that they operate in a particular way , namely that there are predictable patterns in flows of support between older and younger generations , in which support flows in both directions , but on balance the older generation are the givers and the younger the receivers . |