Example sentences of "[art] prospects for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 At the end of May Primakov and Vladimir Shcherbakov , Soviet First Deputy Prime Minister , arrived in Washington for a week of meetings with IMF , World Bank and senior US administration officials ( including Secretary of State James Baker and President Bush ) on Soviet economic plans and the prospects for Western aid .
2 It was inconvenient ; the prospects for private accumulation in the future was slimmer ; the expectation that public enterprise would be less responsive to needs than free traders gave rise to fears of a general decline in wealth and amenity ,
3 Moreover , the constitutional authorities tend to adopt a " legalistic " approach to constitutional change and are pessimistic as to the prospects for democratic politics .
4 By way of contrast , the Liberals and Social Democrats adopt a more " political " approach to constitutional change and they are rather more optimistic as to the prospects for democratic politics in Britain .
5 A cyclical chemicals business could be forgiven for paying a once covered dividend at this stage in the cycle with the prospect of recovery not too far off , but overcapacity and the prospects for continued recession in most of their important European markets make it far from clear that this side of the demerged business will be able to pay its way .
6 The prospects for external funding include possible joint commercial development with publishing and/or media interests .
7 To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what assessment he has made of the prospects for increased democracy in Africa .
8 Anyway , other things have indeed changed : it is ridiculous to pretend that the events of last September , and the exchange-rate strains in Europe that have creaked intermittently ever since , raise no hard questions about the future of the ERM and the prospects for monetary union .
9 To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what is his latest view of the prospects for long-term peace ( a ) in Mogadishu and southern Somalia and ( b ) in northern Somalia .
10 There was widespread international satisfaction at this evident improvement in the prospects for peaceful transition in Cambodia promised by the unexpected warmth of the new relationship .
11 At a time when many socialists were moving away from a naive faith in the prospects for revolutionary change and towards uneasy respect for democracy , Labour in office was doing little to justify belief in the viability of their vision of the road to socialism .
12 I see no reason to be optimistic about the prospects for Soviet democracy .
13 But the prospects for greater justice and peace in prisons depend on the next Government 's willingness and ability to control the size of the prison population .
14 Leaving aside the prospects for proportional representation , what would be the implications of such a system for the functioning of the British political system ?
15 Swayed by the prospects for economic revitalisation , governor Weld gave MASSMoCA another $688,000 and until the end of 1992 to raise $12 million as proof of private-sector support .
16 The combination of the reproducibility and reliability of long-term potentiation as a physiological phenomenon , the evidence of the central role played by the hippocampus in mammalian memory and the renewed enthusiasm about the prospects for productive research into the cellular processes of memory produced , in the early 1980s , an extraordinary bandwagon in hippocampal studies .
17 Meanwhile , with SCO 's Open Desktop dead in the water as an operating system for ACE — the prospects for another operating system designed by committee , the Open Software Foundation 's OSF/1 , are now looking decidedly lacklustre .
18 In fact the prospects for some form of neutralised Germany , whether divided or united were no longer realistic in the 1960s .
19 The prospects for this operation are extremely good .
20 An analysis of the interaction between the three elements under consideration will facilitate the assessment of the prospects for this policy of military modernisation in Spain .
21 We would be happy to consider the prospects for thin slab steel production , but unfortunately there has been absolutely no commercial interest in such production .
22 He 's a little sceptical about the prospects for straw-based chocolate cake .
23 It may even contribute to an improvement of the prospects for satisfactory teacher training in the future .
24 Their significance for the longer-term structure of industrial specialisation and the prospects for competitive success or failure in particular industrial areas of the different national economies is then evaluated .
25 If we stick with 15 per cent rates until the Budget , the prospects for positive growth in the economy do not look too good . ’
26 The Independent on Sunday , published three days afterwards , carried a long article about the prospects for local authority compulsory competitive tendering under the Labour government the writer assumed would be in place once the paper was published .
27 There was much optimism about the prospects for British film production in the aftermath of the First World War .
28 I am by no means gloomy about the prospects for British Coal , but its future success and security depend on its becoming more competitive and productive so that it can secure a large part of the British energy market in years ahead .
29 THE prospects for British membership of the Exchange Rate Mechanism ( ERM ) appeared to improve yesterday when the French government announced it would abolish exchange controls on January 1 , clearing away one of the key obstacles Mrs Thatcher has cited in her opposition to entry .
30 It is designed to identify the kinds of factors which will help to determine the prospects for commercial success among members of different ethnic minorities in different industrial sectors .
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