Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [art] [adj] industries " in BNC.

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1 Some of the earlier industries remain but on a much smaller scale .
2 Their accounts look very different from the nationalized industries because they adopt budgetary accounting and also because they adopt fund accounting .
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 Even public sector business entities , such as the nationalized industries , find that although they may have a very dominant profit or financial target , they often have to take account of wider exogenous implications .
5 By far the greatest number of responsibility centres , trading organizations such as the nationalized industries excluded , can be described as ‘ expense centres ’ .
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 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 .
8 Many of the older industries are connected with farming .
9 Since wage rates are equal in the two industries and the marginal cost of meals ( 5 ) is half the marginal cost of films ( 10 ) , the marginal physical product of labour must be twice as high in the meals industry as in the film industry .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 The hotel , catering and tourist industry is the second largest employer in the United Kingdom , a major contributor to the balance of payments , and one of the few industries which is showing , and will continue to show , real growth .
14 Machine-tools are one of the few industries in east Germany that come close to matching world standards , and Niles Werkzeugmaschinen , based in the district of Weissensee , was the core enterprise of the defunct 7 Oktober engineering combine .
15 But the first real headhunting boom began in the late 1970s and early 1980s , when the recession really began to bite ; executive search may be seen as one of the few industries which grew in this period .
16 An uneven geographical distribution is also characteristic of tourism , one of the few industries that does tend to be found in the remoter rural areas ( see chapter 9 below ) .
17 Dated to the second half of the second century , it seems to have been a tannery and leather workshop , and is not only one of the few reliable instances yet found for this industry , but is also one of the few industries attested at Alcester .
18 Leisure is one of the few industries that is growing .
19 Surveying 150 companies — half UK owned and half foreign owned — it was found that while 69 per cent of companies recognized trade unions for the purpose of collective bargaining , non-recognition was higher in the newer industries , i.e. , those likely to supply most of the new employment in the decades ahead .
20 The External Financing Limit ( EFL ) proposed for 1983–84 was for £1,130 million , easily the largest for any of the nationalised industries .
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