Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [prep] consumers ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | The outcome of this project will be a computer simulation routine usable on standard microcomputers designed to assess the response of consumers ' expenditure and VAT revenue to changes in VAT rates . |
| 2 | [ … ] However the problem with regulation , as US experience testifies , is that the regulatory agency can become captured by the political interests of the industry it is regulating and fail to act as the guardian of consumers ' interests . |
| 3 | Much of the work of consumers ' organisations is responsive . |
| 4 | Rather more than 20 years ago , over a lunch in Staff House , I was persuaded by three eminent lecturers of this University to allow them to nominate me for the Council of Consumers ' Association . |
| 5 | As we saw earlier , the period which marks the emergence of Consumers ' Co-operation as virtually the sole objective of the Movement , and its rejection of authentic Producers ' Co-operation , coincides with Hobsbawm 's Age of Capital , that period which marked the phenomenal growth of a global economy of industrial capitalism and so held out the prospect of unlimited and unfailing progress — and nowhere more than in Britain which held a de facto international monopoly in trade in manufactures . |
| 6 | Some sense of the conflict and confrontation generated by the difference on fundamental principle , the antithesis between Consumers ' and Industrial Co-operation , comes through Cole 's flat account , some sense of Mitchell as a man who saw things narrowly but very clearly , was sure of his objective and of the means of its achievement : the development of the CWS into the very large , multifarious and highly successful undertaking it became . |
| 7 | Here in that contrast , the antithesis between the interests of Consumers ' and Producers ' Co-operation is sharply presented . |
| 8 | The 1979 survey by Social and Community Planning Research commissioned by the National Consumer Council for this report adds some more recent information , although its primary purpose has been to explore the background of consumers ' knowledge and attitudes about credit . |
| 9 | Thus , in comparing alternative economic structures the most efficient is defined as the one that generates the greatest total surplus , where that total surplus is the sum of consumers ' and producers ' surplus . |
| 10 | The gain in consumers ' surplus minus the loss in producers ' surplus is equal to RFGS . |
| 11 | Clearly , liberalisation is a crucial factor explaining both the rise in house prices and in wealth , and the increase in consumers ' spending , inflation and the balance of payments deficit . |
| 12 | With a statutory duty to promote standardisation , the nationalised Boards were willing to go ahead with these schemes , paying for the conversion of consumers ' apparatus as well as of their own mains , even where the returns to themselves were not adequate . |
| 13 | This makes it difficult to tell whether HP and other retail credit , as a part of consumers ' overall spending , is now increasing or declining . |
| 14 | Many midwives feel the current emphasis in antenatal care should be of a social nature rather than a medical one , yet Taylor ( 1985 ) , in a study of consumers ' perceptions of maternity care , showed that clients ' emotional needs are often ignored . |
| 15 | There is no reason for consumers ' tastes to have changed and so the demand curve is unaffected . |