Example sentences of "[prep] [art] consumer [unc] " in BNC.

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1 The CRL 's main task is testing products for the Consumers ' Association , publisher of Which ? magazine .
2 And booksellers were ready for it with pretty much the right books at the right prices to enable them to compete effectively for the consumer 's cautiously placed pound .
3 Too simple a judgment perhaps : it might better be said that , manifested as the Consumers ' Movement , Co-operation had become an alternative presentation of the rights of ownership against the rights of labour , while trade unionism existed to assert the rights of labour against those of ownership .
4 It misses the significance of the points : first , that the occasional engagement of trade unionism in the promotion of industrial co-operatives had been tactical and opportunistic , rather than principled ; and second , that Co-operation identified as the Consumers ' Movement had opposed any significant role for the industrial co-operative , properly so-called .
5 ( 7 ) Organisations such as the Consumers ' Association , the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents and television programmes such as Watchdog may possibly have dealt with a similar problem to yours in the past .
6 The cuts , equivalent to a 2p reduction in the basic rate of income tax , are expected to replenish some of the consumers ' depleted ammunition .
7 CONSUMERS should get a better deal as the Courts and Legal Services Bill opens up greater competition , Mr David Tench , legal officer of the Consumers ' Association , said yesterday .
8 John Beishon , director of the Consumers ' Association You could argue that food difficulties proceed and contribute to the development of sexual problems …
9 But it was from America that British consumers took the idea of the founding of the Consumers ' Association and its magazine Which ? in 1957 , which was soon selling 300,000 copies — almost as many as The Times .
10 Philip Cullum of the Consumers ' Association said the average customer would be no better off .
11 ‘ The recession has not dimmed the banks ' high-handed , bungling attitude to customer relations , ’ said Dr John Beishon , of the Consumers ' Association .
12 Anthony Smith , of the Consumers ' Association , said they had received 21 complaints about the machines — 12 of them describing serious fires .
13 Identified by Hobsbawm as The Age of Capital , in the history of Co-operation in the United Kingdom the period 1848 to 1875 is marked by the emergence of the Consumers ' Movement as a major feature of retail trade , the exposure of the antithesis between it and Producers ' Co-operation and , as a result , the virtual abandonment of the latter as an expression of democracy .
14 Not that the Pioneers of the Consumers ' Movement supposed that they were abandoning Owenite objectives , still less that they intended to do so .
15 By contrast , production by what became in time the Co-operative Wholesale Society is , in principle at least , under the control of the general body of members of the consumers ' societies .
16 But we do not have to follow him further , to the view that authentic Producers ' Co-operation is to be found in factories owned and ultimately controlled not by the men and women working in them , but by the members of the Consumers ' Co-operatives whose capital built and equipped the factories , and employed labour to work in them .
17 Yet , something more than the previous success , and consequent authority , of the Consumers ' Movement is needed to explain the apparently complacent appraisal of the Co-operative scene as Cole portrays it , the unregretting acceptance of the failure of Co-operative principle implicit in the virtual abandonment of the promotion of authentic Producer Co-operation , the strategic mistake of continuing , after Consumers ' Co-operation had so firmly established itself , to commit its resources solely to its own further development , and the failure to realise that where its attractions were not exclusively its own , industrial democracy attached uniquely to Producer Co-operation and so was an inalienable advantage .
18 Both of the main factors contributing to that judgment , the one the reality of the success of the Consumers ' Movement and the certainties of the future growth and achievement , the other a perception of Socialism which can not accommodate authentic Producer Co-operation , were fixed by the end of the nineteenth century .
19 It seems to me that this is largely a reflection of the consumers ' need for information .
20 Dame Rachel Waterhouse , who graduated with a PhD from Birmingham in 1950 , was Chairman of the Council of the Consumers ' Association from 1982 to 1990 .
21 Dame Rachel Waterhouse , Birmingham graduate and , until this year , Chairman of the Consumers ' Association , looks to its role in the 1990s .
22 During the war she was a member of the consumers ' council of the Ministry of Food and of the Central Committee on Women 's Training and Employment .
23 However , in the case of consumer contracts , the right of rejection would not be lost on the basis of the recognition of the consumers ' weak bargaining position .
24 The director of policy of the Consumers ' Association , Stephen Locke , said it had been pressing the Government to introduce the measures for some time .
25 Will news-gathering open up to market forces or continue to receive government protection in the name of the consumer 's interest ?
26 Read Cole , speculating on the possibility of a revival , after the Second World War , of Producer Co-operation : That is an authoritative pronouncement of the view , prevailing for many decades , of the Consumer 's Movement 's attitude towards Producer Co-operation : the rival doctrine , not quite anathema , but something very like .
27 An effective planner works very closely with the creative team on an account , and interprets the client 's brief in terms of the consumer 's present and intended perception of the product , to convey what is needed to the creative people .
28 Cowslips , bluebells , water lilies , snowdrops and wood anemones are among the common flowers being threatened by amateur gardeners , according to a survey conducted by Gardening Which ? , a journal of the Consumer 's Association .
29 I think it comes out somewhere along the line out of the consumer 's pocket .
30 By the beginning of 1982 a team had been recruited to develop the BDA as a consumers ' organisation and pressure group with the primary aim of eliminating discrimination against deaf people and of improving their quality of life .
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