Example sentences of "[that] the prime [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is a superficial view of psychoanalytic theory , because it fails to see that the prime objective of Freud is not merely to explain the ‘ odd ’ actions of neurotics or primitives , but to use their actions to understand and explain what counts as ‘ normal ’ and ordinary action in Western societies . |
| 2 | Mitchell ( 1985 ) asserts that the prime objective of perinatal care should be ‘ to ensure that new individuals reach adult life in the best possible state ’ and that the final outcome is determined by many interacting factors from genetic endowment to educational development , but above all by the qualities of parents , eugenically before conception , psychologically during pregnancy and personally after birth . |
| 3 | If the recognition of persons was a precondition for jewellery , it is no less true that the prime purpose of wearing it was to symbolize status . |
| 4 | But there can be no doubt from a candid examination of the New Testament accounts that the prime purpose of the coming of the Spirit of God upon the disciples was to equip them for mission . |
| 5 | It alleged that they were planning acts of sabotage to destabilize Egypt , and that the prime purpose of killing Mahgoub had been to undermine Egypt 's internal stability and its role in the current Gulf crisis . |
| 6 | It recognises that the prime responsibility for ensuring compliance with and for reporting breaches of the conduct of business rules lies with management of the investment business , and that regulators carry out their own inspection visits . |
| 7 | If speculators do attack , the governors stress that the prime responsibility for protecting a currency should lie with the government concerned . |
| 8 | Yet it seems nevertheless as inevitable as it is logical that the prime mover and co-ordinator of curriculum planning and development must be a national Ministry of Education . |
| 9 | It may be instructive that the prime mover in the action was an American bank ( Allied International ) which has subsequently ceased operations in London and which withdrew from the action on those grounds , although their vice president in charge of operations at the material time was , and still is , resident here . |
| 10 | Some philosophers argued that the Prime Mover did not exist , or was a weak and feeble deity who was impotent to intervene in the machinations of the universe : Spike could not believe that . |
| 11 | However , it is suggested here that the prime factor attracting women to work in the 1980s lay rather in demand for labour from the service sector , albeit at comparatively low rates of pay ( Townsend , 1986a ) . |
| 12 | On the one side , the callers : individuals who have been deluded into believing that the prime function of a national government is to look after them and who therefore itemise their personal miseries in public ( unemployed , house repossessed , eldest son unable to claim benefit , one leg ) before asking the politician : ‘ What I want to know is , what you going to do for me ? ’ — for all the world as though asking a pretty sharp question . |
| 13 | Yesterday Mr Kinnock presented a picture of a world changing so rapidly around the present government that the Prime Minister had become ‘ out of touch , out of date and out of step with the British people ’ . |
| 14 | Speaking to Yasser Arafat , the Palestine Liberation Organisation leader , who is visiting China , Mr Deng announced that the Prime Minister , Li Peng , and the head of the Communist Party , Jiang Zemin , were ‘ now in charge ’ writes Andrew Higgins . |
| 15 | Indignant over suggestions that the Prime Minister has replaced his Jaguar with a Rover , Nigel Lawson can at least draw comfort from the fact that he is a wanted man in the City . |
| 16 | THE LATEST controversy over political interference in research surfaced when a Sunday newspaper reported that the Prime Minister had personally pulled the plug on Department of Health funding for a survey of sexual habits to help scientists to predict the spread of Aids . |
| 17 | This arcane dispute contributes to the electorally damaging impression that the Prime Minister is willing to hammer the country on the anvil of her dogmatism . |
| 18 | Partly as a result , there was growing market speculation yesterday that the Prime Minister might reconsider her strong objections to sterling 's membership of the exchange rate mechanism of the European Monetary System . |
| 19 | Third , because there is reason to suspect that the Prime Minister herself might prefer a devaluation to further expensive and , probably , futile attempts to ‘ buck the markets ’ by penalising her heartland constituency of home owners . |
| 20 | It implies that the Prime Minister has permitted him the freedom ‘ to take whatever action is needed ’ in the past . |
| 21 | Without proof that money was paid into an account controlled by Mr Gandhi , there is little doubt that the Prime Minister will be able to continue resisting calls for his resignation . |
| 22 | For the purposes of the Conservative Party conference , it was enough that the Prime Minister and the Chancellor of the Exchequer denied the existence of an alternative economic strategy . |
| 23 | The first is that the Prime Minister has always said she regards the fight against inflation as paramount . |
| 24 | It was also known that Mrs Thatcher 's closest advisers , Charles Powell and Bernard Ingham , were implicated in the leak , and it seemed improbable that the Prime Minister should have been totally ignorant . |
| 25 | It seemed that the Prime Minister was unable to dismiss her Chancellor , but was unable to invest him with full confidence either . |
| 26 | His Majesty hoped that the Prime Minister , with the colleagues who remained faithful to him , would help in the formation of a National Government , which the King was sure would be supported by the Conservatives and the Liberals . |
| 27 | There is some evidence that it was Snowden who suggested the formula of the ‘ doctor 's mandate ’ , at a Cabinet meeting on 5 October , under which the component parts of the National Government were each to issue their own manifestos , with a separate personal appeal from the Prime Minister , According to Neville Chamberlain , ‘ Snowden … produced the suggestion that the Prime Minister should issue his own manifesto asking for a free hand [ i.e. on tariffs ] and the two Party leaders should each issue their own programmes and to our astonishment this was at once accepted by the Liberals , ' Amery , who perhaps got the information from Chamberlain , wrote in his diary on 6 October , ‘ Apparently when the deadlock seemed most complete Snowden suggested that the PM should issue his own manifesto , each of the other party leaders issuing theirs . ' |
| 28 | AN all-party committee of peers yesterday condemned government concern over the proposed EC Social Charter as ‘ excessive ’ and recommended that the Prime Minister treat it as a basis for an agreement with her Community partners at this weekend 's Strasbourg summit . |
| 29 | Mr Adamec held talks with the small Socialist Party yesterday , after which the Socialist leader , Mr Bohuslav Kucera , announced that the Prime Minister was quitting because he wanted someone younger to handle the ‘ compromise ’ . |
| 30 | The former Cabinet minister refused to rule out the possibility in the wake of his scornful accusation that the Prime Minister 's shrewd political instincts had been led astray by the ‘ Irish logic ’ of the Foreign Office , though he did say it was ‘ very unlikely ’ . |