Example sentences of "a [adj] trade " in BNC.
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| 1 | France has a persistent trade deficit with Germany and this is sometimes a bone of contention between the two countries . |
| 2 | Such distortions lead to a persistent trade surplus and a persistently rising yen . |
| 3 | Could not the European Community learn something from north America , where a tariff-free trade area , consisting of Canada and the United States and soon to be joined by Mexico , has been created ? |
| 4 | His final , understated comments on the worthwhile qualities of a career in politics are as good an apologia for a much-derided trade as I have read recently . |
| 5 | A MUCH larger entry of store pigs at Markethill sold in a strong trade particularly for heavy stores and middleweight stores which were in outstanding demand . |
| 6 | They supplied $3.4 billion of exports in a total trade of about $60 billion in 1987 , notably from Brazil , Mexico and Taiwan , and have been increasing their share as better systems of production and reliable supply have been introduced . |
| 7 | Defection is , of course , a two-way trade but there is no reason to think that those who go from the West to the East are any more valuable or enjoy a rewarding lifestyle . |
| 8 | A two-way trade is illustrated by ICL 's alliance with Fujitsu , without which ICL could not have developed its current range of mainframe computers and Fujitsu could not have expanded so quickly into European markets . |
| 9 | Employment is a two-way trade and it is as well to remember that the conditions that we in the House think can be imposed on employers may backfire on the very people whom they are supposed to help . |
| 10 | They have seen the Court of Appeal 's judgment as stating that even an express clause can not validly protect confidential information unless it is a narrow trade secret or its equivalent . |
| 11 | President Delors , in Britain to give a lecture at the London School of Economics , hurried to Downing street at noon for a meeting aimed at avoiding a tit-for-tat trade war with the United States . |
| 12 | True , the report 's authors criticise the EC 's trigger-happy use of anti-dumping rules and say there remains a risk that the Community will drift into a European trade zone built around special agreements with the EFTA countries and Eastern Europe . |
| 13 | Steve Jobs last week denied to Unigram reports printed in a European trade magazine that Novell Inc was planning a takeover of NeXT Computer Inc , intending to use NeXTstep as the object-oriented front-end to a new version of NetWare . |
| 14 | The truth as observed at the Royal Albert Hall on Wednesday is that it would be exceedingly foolish for admirers to think of Mason as better than a developing apprentice in a punishing trade . |
| 15 | In 1914 he had become a full-time trade union official rising to the general secretaryship of the Trades Union Congress in the 1920s . |
| 16 | But no liability for tort can be enforced against a Trade Union for acts done in contemplation or furtherance of a specific trade dispute ( within strict limits ) , and possibly not against other unincorporated societies . |
| 17 | But politics , as Mrs Thatcher can vouch , is a cruel trade . |
| 18 | The term ‘ antislavery ’ is itself deceptive ; the 1814 campaign was against allowing a defeated enemy to reopen a cruel trade which the British were proud of having ended amongst their own fellow-countrymen . |
| 19 | Mr Kantor 's actions , as so often , raised eyebrows abroad , and reopened the question of whether the Clinton administration has a coherent trade policy . |
| 20 | It was not large but did a fairish trade . |
| 21 | Basing himself in Minnigaff village , from which , when necessary , he could quickly retreat with his gang into the hill country , Marshall conducted a profitable trade for years with the local smugglers . |
| 22 | Debts were paid and a profitable trade to and from the south of Spain energetically fostered . |
| 23 | In addition to sending military units , the USA also imposed a complete trade embargo on Iraq which included the prohibition of exports to any entity operated from Iraq or owned or controlled by the government of Iraq . |
| 24 | A professional trade union with the new knowledge , the skills and the services appropriate to their needs . |
| 25 | This conclusion was the fons et origo of the barrage of criticism which was to be heaped on the notion of a stable trade off relation in the wake of Milton Friedman 's |
| 26 | We shall now concentrate our attention on his criticism of proposition ( b ) , the hypothesis that there exists a stable trade off relation between inflation and unemployment . |
| 27 | When we examined Friedman 's demolition of the idea of a stable trade off between inflation and unemployment , we noted how there remained some scope for policy activism . |
| 28 | A pre-arranged trade can still be a commercial trade , in the sense that actual profit and loss is involved . |
| 29 | In the case of " wash trading " however , a trader carries out a pre-arranged trade which is essentially fictitious . |
| 30 | Much of the material extracted now is ground down for various manufacturing purposes , whilst there is a lively trade in making slate ornaments for the tourist industry . |