Example sentences of "an incomes [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ SHOULD WE HAVE AN INCOMES POLICY ? ’ |
| 2 | The subject ‘ Should we have an incomes policy ’ is in fact yours rather than mine . |
| 3 | By an incomes policy I take it that , for the purposes of our discussion , we mean an attempt to influence the value of money by operating directly upon specific prices ; and price of course includes earnings , i.e. the price of a quantity of labour in a particular application . |
| 4 | It is therefore possible to say that any economic policy is an incomes policy , and in particular that any economic policy designed to prevent or reduce the rate of inflation is an incomes policy . |
| 5 | It is therefore possible to say that any economic policy is an incomes policy , and in particular that any economic policy designed to prevent or reduce the rate of inflation is an incomes policy . |
| 6 | It is in this latter sense that very often it is claimed that the Conservative Party is advocating an incomes policy , by which is simply meant that the policies which we advocate would , we believe , have as a result the stability of money values and thus have the effect that increases in earnings were real and not merely monetary . |
| 7 | In other words , so far as I am concerned , unless and until we are prepared to deal with this demonstrated cause of inflation and want to do so , we are wasting our time ; and as soon as we want to do so , there is no reason to suppose that there will be any problem or therefore any reason for an incomes policy as defined . |
| 8 | By 1978 Britain , under Labour , was still in the EEC , the government had an incomes policy of sorts and had curbed the growth of public expenditure , and private education remained . |
| 9 | In the mid-1960s wage bargaining in the public sector became more politicized and produced frequent confrontations with the central government , regardless of whether it had an incomes policy or not . |
| 10 | The government was the first to do without an incomes policy , and the absence of ‘ norms ’ or ‘ targets ’ for incomes in nearly twenty years helped to take the issue of wages out of politics . |
| 11 | It means an incomes policy determined by government , differentials determined by government . |
| 12 | In operating an incomes policy on low pay , by changing the incidence of taxation on income and wealth , by cutting the rise in the welfare budget , while letting tax welfare be consumer led , the Government has brought about a revolutionary polarization in income and living standards , which can now be seen not only in the official data on income distribution , but also in widening class differences . |
| 13 | It came to the rescue of Rolls-Royce and of Upper Clyde Shipbuilders and negotiated an incomes policy with the unions . |
| 14 | ‘ An incomes policy ’ — ‘ the Foreign Secretary ’ — ‘ Labour backbenchers cheered ’ … how shabbily comprehensible it all seems ! |
| 15 | Why should teachers have to submit to an incomes policy when the bosses made a 22.7 per cent . |
| 16 | The Italian government did not attempt an incomes policy , but it did persuade the metal workers , whose settlement traditionally sets the pace for other sectors , to postpone the renegotiation of their three-year contract from 1965 to 1966 . |