Example sentences of "[to-vb] a [adj] approach to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 1991 edition of the World Bank 's World Development Report , released on July 8 , called for fresh initiatives to encourage a market-oriented approach to economic development and a substantial reduction in defence spending in the developing world . |
| 2 | The confidence which was necessary for the successful functioning of a coinage tended to encourage a conservative approach to its design , and one of the largest and most abundant coinages of the ancient world , that of Athens in the fifth and fourth centuries BC , deliberately preserved an archaic appearance , as a comparison with more up-to-date treatments of the same subject reveals ( fig. 9 ) . |
| 3 | Schools made constructive use of the potential of enhanced staffing to secure a collaborative approach to curriculum development in the classroom through teachers teaching together ( TTT ) . |
| 4 | He is trying to exclude a particular approach to many central problems of philosophy . |
| 5 | The object of job evaluation is to provide a systematic approach to defining the relative worth of different jobs . |
| 6 | The scheme is intended to provide a systematic approach to the arrangement of books on shelves . |
| 7 | The first of the new areas covered by the practice note , the auditors ' report to regulators , seeks to provide a common approach to reporting by auditors and establish clear unequivocal wording of auditors ' reports , so that whenever possible auditors may use a standard layout and form of wording when reporting to all regulators . |
| 8 | This agreement between the governments in London and Dublin was an attempt to promote co-operation between them and to try to find a joint approach to at least some of the problems of Northern Ireland . |
| 9 | They would be more effective and useful ; and at the same time they could be employed to reflect a new approach to the balance of education for which I have argued . |
| 10 | The Treasury defeated this proposal , but the Cabinet was prepared to initiate a new approach to Liverpool 's difficulties — the task Force . |
| 11 | It is an impossibly restricted view , therefore , to imagine a universal approach to landform study being based only upon consideration of historical development … the physical and the resulting psychological , inability of geographers to handle successfully the simultaneous operation of a number of causes contributing to a given effect has been one of the greatest impediments to the advancement of their discipline . |
| 12 | Their function is to stimulate a pragmatic approach to teaching and teacher education . |
| 13 | Part of that role — as deputy to the Superintendent — has been to promote a multi-agency approach to crime prevention and community safety , forging close contacts with district councils as well as other statutory and voluntary groups within Hampshire . |
| 14 | The prior beliefs of the on z are described by a normal distribution , this assumption is necessary to enable a signal-extraction approach to the revision of priors . |
| 15 | The election of the Thatcher government in 1979 was to see a new approach to the management of the civil service . |
| 16 | In this section I want to compare a Marxian approach to growth — based upon Bukharin 's equations — with that of Harrod . |
| 17 | Practitioners should not underestimate the shift in practice required to implement a needs-led approach to assessment of older people . |
| 18 | Linguists and linguistic philosophers tend to adopt a limited approach to the functions of language in society . |
| 19 | ENPs are able to adopt a holistic approach to their patients : they examine , request appropriate investigations , make a diagnosis , carry out the treatment and discharge patients . |
| 20 | Given such preambles , it seems natural to adopt a teleological approach to interpretation . |
| 21 | To try to preserve industrial peace and control wage inflation governments were forced to adopt a carrot-and-stick approach to the trade unions . |
| 22 | The Labour Party has accused the government of allowing newly-XXXX privatized water companies to adopt a lax approach to anti-XXXX pollution measures — in contrast to the government 's tough public statements on the matter . |
| 23 | It might be a failure on your part to adopt a consistent approach to training which is confusing the dog . |
| 24 | Management need to adopt a modern approach to financial reporting , one that focuses attention on the need to provide useful information rather than on mere compliance with any particular set of established procedures . |
| 25 | Therefore , given the limitations on our time , resources and methods of investigation , we decided to adopt a two-pronged approach to estimating the prevalence of heroin use , a strategy developed by the London based Drug Indicators Project ( Hartnoll et al . |
| 26 | Taylor was the first to adopt a cognitive approach to the study of information behaviour by analysing the user 's internal psychological process which leads to the accessing of a formal information system . |
| 27 | The analyst ought to have sufficient time available to be able to adopt a critical approach to the task . |
| 28 | Are not managers constantly exhorted to adopt a fresh approach to their jobs and to ‘ streamline ’ their businesses ? |
| 29 | It is primarily such long-term considerations which have led the Bank to adopt a particular approach to the issuing and selling of new government securities . |
| 30 | The authorities seemed to adopt a dual approach to the anniversary ; on the one hand they launched a massive security operation in the city and detained a number of potential trouble makers , but on the other hand they attempted to portray an image of leniency by releasing groups of pro-democracy activists who had been arrested in 1989 . |