Example sentences of "relatively [adj] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Japanese enterprises operate under relatively stable capital market conditions compared to the highly volatile share-transactions of bundles of ‘ ownership ’ which characterize British , United States and many other Western stock exchanges .
2 And yet unlike Mr Lorenz , who joined a company perennially being reorganised , Mr Hallman will lead a relatively stable management team .
3 A conference in 1944 resulted in the establishment of the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) which provided an environment of relatively stable exchange rates .
4 The creation of a new , relatively stable language variety from different sources — as in a new dialect emerging from a number of different dialects spoken by settlers who speak different dialects of the same language — can be viewed as a focusing process .
5 Within the large car plants themselves , where the unions were strong and the companies were able to offer a relatively stable employment policy by shifting the troughs and peaks in the work-load out to sub-contractors , management had adopted what Friedman termed the ‘ responsible autonomy ’ strategy .
6 Instead governments should use fiscal policy combined with a policy of relatively stable interest rates .
7 So , for example , Burns and Stalker ( 1961 ) were able to divide forms of management structure into mechanistic and organic , the former being appropriate for firms operating under relatively stable market conditions because routine decision-making handles unchanging tasks efficiently , and the latter being appropriate to rapidly changing product environments where there is a continuous need to innovate and deal with new and unpredictable problems .
8 Such desensitisation is inhibited at 20°C , and this temperature was preferred for most experiments since it enabled effects of activation of protein kinase C to be assessed against a relatively stable control value .
9 The reason for the neglect of climatic consideration has been partly the relative youthfulness of the science of urban climatology , and partly the relatively weak communication links that presently exist between climatology and planning .
10 Such a state of affairs provides the seller with a unique opportunity to exploit the relatively weak bargaining position of the investor .
11 Even if IBM has a relatively weak market share in the burgeoning software business it is still very comfortably number one ; and while some of the Japanese giants and European champions occupy high positions in the software league , the huge array of US software insurgents ( led by such companies as Lotus , Microsoft and Sun ) has no equivalent elsewhere .
12 In the United States , because this system is aggravated by a relatively weak party system , there is no guarantee that the President will be of the same party as the majority in Congress .
13 These include Tatlin 's ‘ Corner Counter Relief ’ , 1914–15 , from the Russian Museum , one of the only two fully authenticated and relatively intact Tatlin reliefs in Russian public collections .
14 People ask how can it be that Scotland 's relatively small , relatively low-key club set-up can produce teams that will fearlessly take on the best and nurture expectations of victory over them all until the final whistle .
15 If British evidence is anything to go by it is often large and relatively dated production units that tend to be the first to close in periods of rationalisation .
16 It was also suggested that lower success rates among Access students appear to be associated with higher education courses which have relatively low success rates for all students .
17 The finding of high cGMP values , however , with a relatively low guanylate cyclase activity could suggest a reduced rate of cGMP degradation .
18 The Nord-Pas-de-Calais strategy is clearly designed to pull it in the former camp and has a number of existing advantages to draw upon including a good geographical position and relatively low land prices , wages and corporate taxation rates .
19 A 2.8-A MIR map was considerably improved using solvent flattening , even though there is a relatively low solvent content ( 36% ) .
20 In seven of these , raised CDAI >150 was associated with relatively low scan score ( ≤20 ) .
21 This western margin of the N.W. German Carboniferous Basin is characterised by relatively low reflectance values ( Fig. 3 ) due to relatively low rock temperatures .
22 Fast application by airless spray , of relatively low film thicknesses , with minimum disruption to other trades , saves contract time .
23 Our opener this year has been a runaway success in the States where the box office success of this relatively low budget film has taken everyone by surprise .
24 The image server may be equipped with optical disks — a high capacity but relatively low cost storage medium which is written to and read by a laser disk drive unit .
25 American news organisations , such as CNN and CBS , may show an interest in the shares in the hope of collaborating with the relatively low cost ITN .
26 BSkyB — as it is now — took advantage of relatively low cost communications satellite technology to open up a service that the regulators ( national or pan-European ) had failed to anticipate .
27 Partridge has previously only held annual exhibitions of recent acquisitions ; a thematic exhibition of relatively low cost items was , Mr Schroder conceded , an attempt to ‘ broaden the market ’ in these difficult times .
28 If CU formation results in a shift in domestic consumption away from relatively high cost domestic production to relatively low cost partner production , or rest of world production , or both , then trade creation is said to arise .
29 Such longer term support would make it economically-viable for wind power operators to build turbines in areas of relatively low wind speeds , effectively doubling .
30 But as European and Japanese business turned their attention to the US market their relatively low wage costs allowed them to make substantial inroads .
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