Example sentences of "[adj] consequences " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Well , alas , in that particular case , there was a panicky policy , because they delayed drawing the proper consequences from their data for too long . |
| 2 | This has huge commercial consequences : household-related spending accounts for 20% of America 's GNP . |
| 3 | This heightened business interest in local spending and revenue raising , and fermented anxiety about the operation of the uniform business rate and the community charge : the CBI , previously concerned about fluctuating rates , is now concerned about the commercial consequences of fluctuating services , as local authorities try to manage their finances . |
| 4 | He is as impulsive and easily distracted as KLF leader Bill Drummond , and similarly shifts queer guises ( with scant regard for commercial consequences ) at an extraordinary rate . |
| 5 | It simulates a design and build project on a compressed time scale and models the commercial consequences of designing , planning , estimating , tendering for and building to , a contract and specification . |
| 6 | ‘ We can not afford to allow political decisions to come before the commercial consequences of such an act . ’ |
| 7 | It calls for the removal of those subsidies which encourage profligate use of energy , water and pesticides , with environmentally-damaging consequences , and those which promote unsustainable economic activities — such as cattle ranching on deforested land in Brazil . |
| 8 | Market manipulation , including energy taxes and trading in " permits to pollute " , should be used to limit the environmentally-damaging consequences of economic growth . |
| 9 | The direct consequences of this dramatic political change differed in each state , but paralleled each other , consolidating each alliance 's power . |
| 10 | The spiral in drug abuse and trafficking , with direct consequences for the AIDS epidemic , has created a new kind of alarm . |
| 11 | The idea that the ‘ good name ’ of the family is still coveted may be a little surprising in the 1980s , but these data show that there are situations where it is still very important and has direct consequences in material terms . |
| 12 | These less direct consequences of man 's animality could , Malinowski argued , be understood in the light of their integrative contribution to man 's social existence . |
| 13 | Restrictions on new building , both in general and to specific locations ( usually key settlements ) , has two direct consequences . |
| 14 | Beyond these direct consequences such labs have implications for the long term development of the host-country 's scientific capacity and capability . |
| 15 | In re Polemis [ 1921 ] 3 KB 560 was wrongly decided because it had held that once liability was established , a person was responsible for the direct consequences of his acts even though these were not foreseeable . |
| 16 | It may be that this reflects the lack of distinction between reasonable foresight as a criterion on the one hand , and , to use the more favoured phrase in Scotland , natural and direct consequences on the other . |
| 17 | In particular , the counsellor can counter the belief that pain and illness are the natural and unavoidable consequences of growing old . |
| 18 | The aircraft hit the runway flat and at speed with unavoidable consequences . |
| 19 | They may appear to be sexually aware but they are just not prepared for the physical , emotional or sexual consequences . |
| 20 | But if the cultural materialists , unlike the more fastidious new historicists , cheerfully ignore the theoretical consequences of Foucault 's work for many Marxist concepts , in other ways they are closer to him insofar as they make clear in their work their own political priorities and commitments . |
| 21 | This has exciting theoretical consequences , for in trying to do this , feminist analyses are attempting to fill huge lacunae left by most economists and sociologists , including Marx . |
| 22 | This includes works where the substantive and theoretical consequences of the internationalization or globalization of capital rather than a particular industry or country are the focus . |
| 23 | As an index of the difficulty , one may note that linguists frequently oscillate between assigning notions like presupposition , illocutionary force , truth condition to sentences or utterances , although important theoretical consequences follow from the choice . |
| 24 | Evolutionary innovations such as nerve tracts , seriation , mesoderm , spacious body cavities and circulatory systems , all implied by the fossils already available , must have had profound phylogenetic consequences . |
| 25 | Negative methods of responding in marking are likely to produce sterile , cumulative consequences in a child 's writing : pupils quickly discern what is acceptable to the teacher and merely aim to fulfil those expectations . |
| 26 | Individuals act within markets unaware of the cumulative consequences of their individually rational responses to the information at their disposal ; and neither historical experience nor theoretical modelling has yet found a way of integrating those individually rational decisions through markets without creating cycles of boom and slump , unemployment and inflation . |
| 27 | Of course , if prices generally do rise , the value of money falls with all sorts of unpleasant consequences for the classes who can not raise their money incomes as fast as others , and , in the case of Britain particularly , for the national balance of payments . |
| 28 | For a while it looked as though Germany were going to sidestep all the unpleasant consequences of going to war against its neighbours — the most predictable being the payment of reparations — by avoiding a full surrender . |
| 29 | The sender refers to an action necessary if the receiver is to avoid unpleasant consequences . |
| 30 | His reference to the respondents having no alternative but to continue to pay and to Great Western Railway Co. v. Sutton suggests that he was referring to payments made to avoid unpleasant consequences other than a simple action of payment . |