Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] [art] status [no cls] " in BNC.
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1 | To cope with the Gaullist surge ( and with the communist threat on their other flank ) , the centrist parties committed to the status quo made a virtue of necessity by banding together to form what they called the " Third Force " . |
2 | From my observations of the initial stages of the current process of change , the major factors appear to be as follows : Resistance to change by those committed to the status quo . |
3 | Resistance to change by those committed to the status quo . |
4 | But the Service was in its infancy when the matter was under consideration , and there is something to be said for the status quo in those circumstances . |
5 | Creative activity , if its meanings are not to be wholly absorbed within the status quo , must be understandable , for Hewison , as confrontational activity . |
6 | He thinks that great opportunities lie ahead , but vested interests , built on the status quo , are trying to keep them out of reach . |
7 | It is arguable that the scale and pattern of grants might more reasonably have been based on the status quo in individual schools , to avoid an invidious distinction between the two " classes " of award . |
8 | Some 96 per cent of voters opted for the status quo . |
9 | The members of the SCSE represented the bodies of power most likely to resist the challenge posed to the status quo by perestroika and the Union Treaty . |
10 | One of the main problems for the subject in the inter-war period was that it became increasingly identified as a status quo subject . |
11 | The opposite positions may be identified as the status quo ( p&l account only ) and the equivalent of annual financial statements ( p&l account , balance sheet , cash flow statement and full notes ) . |
12 | As teachers , we need to be aware of the extent to which inequalities are enshrined within the status quo and the fact that many of the students with whom we work are the products of an unequal social system . |
13 | By this we mean the maintenance of the status quo as a conscious policy based upon a set of values which are promoted by or embodied in the status quo . |