Example sentences of "consumers ' [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had also been taking up quite a lot of time for public service , chairing the National Gas Consumers ' Council , and also , more relevantly , working under Richard Hoggart who was chairing the Advisory Council for Adult and Continuing Education , which had a remit to develop national policies for education as a process continuing throughout life . |
| 2 | I had recently been representing consumers on the National Consumer Council , as well as chairing the National Gas Consumers ' Council . |
| 3 | As I explain in more detail in a recent report for the Electricity Consumers ' Council ( Nuclear Power and the Economic Interests of Consumers ) the CEGB 's figures for nuclear fuel-cycle costs are extremely limited and contain internal inconsistencies . |
| 4 | The Electricity Consumers ' Council ( ECC ) agrees that savings ‘ could be significant ’ even if they do not reach the £1000 million mark . |
| 5 | During the war she was a member of the consumers ' council of the Ministry of Food and of the Central Committee on Women 's Training and Employment . |
| 6 | Domestic Coal Consumers ' Council |
| 7 | Euan Robson , the Scottish manager of the Gas Consumers ' Council , said : ‘ Winters are longer and colder in Scotland but the Government seems not to have taken account of this . ’ |
| 8 | A survey for the Welsh Consumers ' Council shows that 40pc of shoppers had never heard of the Government 's citizens ' charter despite publicity costing £350,000 . |
| 9 | Meanwhile , the consumers ' council says citizens ' charters for patients and parents cost around £200,000 and £150,000 each to produce in Wales alone . |
| 10 | All this will change consumers ' behaviour . |
| 11 | On close examination by the American Consumers ' Union , some of these switches were found to be connected to no vital function of the machine whatever . |
| 12 | The more the styles changed , as the Consumers ' Union director , Dexter Masters , pointed out , the greater the disguised price increase to the consumer in shorter-lived products and heavier repair bills . |
| 13 | consumers ' concern over the environmental impact of packaging — both retail and industrial — is growing . |
| 14 | Accordingly total expenditure E in the period under consideration was composed entirely of consumers ' expenditure C , and total income Y in the community was identical to this expenditure . |
| 15 | If we analyse all the uses to which income is put , then it is immediately obvious that for the economy as a whole consumers ' expenditure on goods produced in the domestic circular flow is only one element . |
| 16 | We can refer to government expenditure , investment , and exports as injections into the circular flow because they add to consumers ' expenditure on domestic products . |
| 17 | This extra consumers ' expenditure will give rise to additional income of £40 million in those domestic industries producing the required goods and services . |
| 18 | Again some proportion ( 60 per cent ) of this additional income will leak from the circular flow while the remainder is passed on as extra consumers ' expenditure on domestic goods and services . |
| 19 | In our basic model we established that total expenditure ( or aggregate demand ) derives from consumers ' expenditure on domestically produced goods and services C , government expenditure G , investment I , and exports X ; that national income Y consists of consumers ' expenditure on domestically produced goods and services C , taxation T , saving S , and imports M ; and that aggregate demand is equivalent to national income . |
| 20 | In our basic model we established that total expenditure ( or aggregate demand ) derives from consumers ' expenditure on domestically produced goods and services C , government expenditure G , investment I , and exports X ; that national income Y consists of consumers ' expenditure on domestically produced goods and services C , taxation T , saving S , and imports M ; and that aggregate demand is equivalent to national income . |
| 21 | To get an approximate feel for the size of the loss , in 1985 according to the National Income and Expenditure " Blue Book " , £4046 million was spent on gas , out of total consumers ' expenditure of £213,208 million . |
| 22 | At a later stage in the project , the investigators shall consider the impact of changes in financial assets on ‘ real ’ variables such as consumers ' expenditure . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Table E8.1 Consumers ' expenditure on energy |
| 25 | As Cole points out , the Pioneers ‘ were setting out to be at one and the same time a Producers ’ and a Consumers ' Society ; and this seemed natural to them because all their endeavours were meant to lead to the creation of a Co-operative Community on the Owenite model , in which the distinction between producers and consumers would not exist . ’ |
| 26 | I am glad that the hon. Gentleman is proud to join in the consumers ' society that has been created by our policies . |
| 27 | He used data from a survey which had asked ‘ informed business economists ’ their predictions for six and twelve months ahead for a number of economic series which included the consumers ' price index for the period 1954–69 in the US . |
| 28 | The extraordinary 19 per cent rise in real consumers ' spending between 1985 and 1988 was mainly due to the real wage rise of 14.1 per cent . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | But what will happen to the housing market and consumers ' spending when , for example , the lenders increasingly introduce shared equity loans , widening the housing market to a new range of low income buyers ? |