Example sentences of "of [art] [adj] industries " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , the " going rate " in 1980 for the chairmen of the major industries ( gas , aerospace , shipbuilding , railways , coal , etc. ) was £48,000 , at a time when the top executives of BP , ICI and the like were earning between two and three times that amount , including bonuses but without accounting for various fringe benefits . |
| 2 | Tourism has developed with considerable speed into one of the major industries of the modern world , and much of its current shape and nature is the result of British innovation during the past 150 years . |
| 3 | An alternative and fairer approach would be for an incoming radical government to insist that each of the privatized industries should make a free issue of stock , by way of compensation for the sale of public assets at deflated prices . |
| 4 | Following the decline of the traditional industries of shipbuilding , steel and enginering , manufacturing is relatively weak , with two-thirds of employment now dependent on service sectors . |
| 5 | Within the district are towns which rest on contrasting industrial bases , including the receding strengths of the traditional industries such as shipbuilding and coalmining , and the ‘ sunrise ’ industries of micro-electronics and computing . |
| 6 | The union was unsuccessful in gaining recognition : ‘ The Ludlow war , one of the more tragic episodes in labor 's history , failed to dissolve the adamantine opposition to unionism , which had become a fixed and immovable article of faith among many of the great industries of the United States ’ ( Taft and Ross , 1969:256 ) . |
| 7 | A year or two in France and Italy was not compatible with the efficient running of the new industries , but two or three weeks in the Lakes , Scotland or North Wales showed the neighbours that one 's family had gentle interests . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , the size and wealth of London as a centre for consuming the products of the new industries was important . |
| 9 | Hall argues that for the fifth Kondratiev one of the key elements is the presence of scientific research : the initial trigger for the development of the new industries of this long wave — electronics , information technology and biotechnology . |
| 10 | The scale of the new industries brought about a number of visual changes , some of them unexpected . |
| 11 | In an interesting comparative study of the US and British steel industries ( Elbaum and Wilkinson , 1979 ) , explanations are sought in the historical development of the two industries for their pronounced industrial relations differences — a long period of violent conflict in the United States in contrast with more orderly procedures and fewer strikes in Britain . |
| 12 | Within the Conservative party , particularly among local activists and MPs , there had long been numerous critics of the nationalized industries and advocates of a more market-orientated economy . |
| 13 | Another criticism was of the poor performance of the nationalized industries , particularly the low pre-tax real rates of return on the capital employed . |
| 14 | The government therefore initially turned to privatization in large part as an answer to the ‘ problem ’ of the nationalized industries . |
| 15 | There is too much independence ( which means in effect the power to work in secrecy ) in the case of the nationalized industries and the local authorities both have become enormous spenders of taxation without its counterpart in public accountability . |
| 16 | According to The Government 's Expenditure Plans to 1984/85 ( Cmnd.8494 , 1982 ) it is the government 's aim that the customers of the nationalized industries will have charges levied against them sufficient to find 75 per cent of capital expenditure . |
| 17 | If the principle is accepted that the Audit Commission appoints private sector auditors of health and local authorities , why should not the C & AG appoint the auditors of the nationalized industries and other public bodies ? |
| 18 | When these various bodies were created , the question of control did arise , most acutely in the case of the nationalized industries . |
| 19 | There has been a continuous tendency for governments , both Conservative and Labour , to intervene in the affairs of the nationalized industries in order to promote immediate political objectives . |
| 20 | The chairmen of the nationalized industries were greatly alarmed by this proposal . |
| 21 | In part , they developed the traditional Conservative view that government was inherently inefficient and undesirable , particularly fastening on the record of the nationalized industries . |
| 22 | They were also protagonists of greater parliamentary supervision of the nationalized industries and supported the creation of the select committee on these industries against Labour resistance in the mid 1950s . |
| 23 | The other major form of non-departmental body , the public corporation , will be discussed in Chapter 12 within the wider context of the nationalized industries . |
| 24 | The service trades have always followed in the wake of the producing industries . |
| 25 | The Acts of Parliament which carried out the privatisations and established the powers of the regulatory agencies lay the various duties upon the Directors of the various industries and not upon the regulatory agencies as corporate bodies . |
| 26 | As the hon. Gentleman obviously takes econometric models to bed with him , I wonder whether he would look at the implications of Liberal Democrat policy on one of the small industries to which his party is committed — the armed forces . |
| 27 | Any complaints will be dealt with by the ombudsmen of the respective industries . |
| 28 | However , lower wages are also paid in many other industries in rural areas ; for example , in 16 of the 19 industries examined in the South West , earnings were as much as 13 per cent below national levels . |
| 29 | This gambit , drawing on the rapid growth of the science-based industries such as electronics , chemicals and nuclear power over the previous years , proved a successful means of unifying the party . |
| 30 | Many people wish to write down the opportunities which exist , but under the present Government there is a future for many of the defence-related industries in my area . |