Example sentences of "to compete [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All institutions will be free to compete for selective research funding . |
| 2 | One might expect females to compete for rich food sources , for these are important to them in gaining nutrition for child-bearing and lactation . |
| 3 | The private sector must be given a fair chance to compete for local authority contracts . |
| 4 | The major political parties , the Conservatives and the Liberals , were increasingly aware of the need to compete for working-class support . |
| 5 | Palestinians therefore had to compete with subsidized Israeli produce in the home market while being denied access to the Israeli one . |
| 6 | This is only a small point , the Fun School 4 products have enough going for them to be recommended and are certainly good value for money — BUT to continue to compete with other quality software that is now appearing , this lack of consistency will need to be addressed . |
| 7 | Such a mechanism could enhance our national ability to compete with other world class research communities . |
| 8 | The matter is further complicated if you have to compete with other project managers for the same resources . |
| 9 | Those practices must be brought to an end , and I know that my hon. Friends will strongly support the Government when we say that enough is enough and that if we are to have a compulsory competitive tendering regime , it must be one under which the private and public sectors are able to compete with absolute equality . |
| 10 | Behind the grille it is usually quieter than outside ( where you are ) , and the muffled voice may have to compete with loud background noise ; in addition the speaker 's face often can not be seen clearly . |
| 11 | With the advent of compulsory , competitive tendering in local authorities , direct service organisations are forced to compete with private sector organisations for contracts to provide certain services and as a result they are beginning to use strategic planning techniques ( see the section below on business planning ) . |
| 12 | There are also beds of limestone close on the line at Snead and Lydham suitable for building stone , although not sufficiently pure to compete with Porthywaen lime for agricultural purposes . |
| 13 | Seiko Epson Co says it has developed new metal insulator metal technology for liquid crystal diode displays to compete with thin film transistor technology at the high end of the market , Reuter reports from Tokyo . |
| 14 | A study of the GEC bid to takeover Plessey outlines clearly the conflict that can exist between maintaining competition in the domestic market and restructuring an industry to enable it to compete with foreign competition , by allowing rationalisation to occur and encouraging the combined group to exploit economies of scale . |
| 15 | After all the years in which we pressed British Rail to open the station and the bus company to allow buses to come down into Portlethen village , when the station was reopened , the bus companies suddenly decided that buses would come down off the main road and start a service to compete with British Rail . |
| 16 | He spoke of one boy ‘ who did n't really have a lot going for him ’ who managed to qualify to compete in regional athletics events . |
| 17 | If the EEC is to compete in post-GATT world markets , it is not the number of farmers which matters but rather the quality of their output . |
| 18 | By her stand we judge them , and we see that Cordelia 's calm statement of her love for her father , her refusal to compete in extravagant adulation , was the result not of some inherent coldness but of integrity under unusual and unnatural pressure . |
| 19 | However , the recent study by PA Management Consultants Ltd found that in themselves the analyses of the cases examined had not produced hard evidence to support the hypothesis that co-operatives would find it very difficult to compete in capital-intensive production : |
| 20 | As already indicated , laws-of-war considerations may lead writers or policy-makers to advocate targeting missile bases rather than cities — but this might prove in practice an open invitation to compete in nuclear hardware or , even worse , an incentive to strike first . |
| 21 | The colleges , including Chester , have argued that the breadth and standard of their courses is good enough for them to compete on equal footing with the old polytechnics , which are now universities . |
| 22 | Pickering had nurtured Davies since his days as a schoolboy triple jumper , and Davies has frequently credited Pickering with giving him the confidence to compete at top level . |
| 23 | He compares the position with that of a pentathlon athlete , who is good enough to compete at top level in each event separately — along with quite a lot of other people . |
| 24 | The Oxford Wordpower Dictionary heads the list this year and is designed to compete at intermediate level with the Longman Active Study and Cobuild Students Dictionary . |
| 25 | The fear now is that banks will start to compete by driving commission rates lower and lower until they are prepared to arrange issues at break-even or worse . |