Example sentences of "[prep] consumer ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | COUNTRY pubs are thriving in East Anglia despite Consumers ' Association fears that they are disappearing . |
| 2 | This makes it difficult to tell whether HP and other retail credit , as a part of consumers ' overall spending , is now increasing or declining . |
| 3 | The 1979 survey by Social and Community Planning Research commissioned by the National Consumer Council for this report adds some more recent information , although its primary purpose has been to explore the background of consumers ' knowledge and attitudes about credit . |
| 4 | With a statutory duty to promote standardisation , the nationalised Boards were willing to go ahead with these schemes , paying for the conversion of consumers ' apparatus as well as of their own mains , even where the returns to themselves were not adequate . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Many midwives feel the current emphasis in antenatal care should be of a social nature rather than a medical one , yet Taylor ( 1985 ) , in a study of consumers ' perceptions of maternity care , showed that clients ' emotional needs are often ignored . |
| 8 | Here in that contrast , the antithesis between the interests of Consumers ' and Producers ' Co-operation is sharply presented . |
| 9 | In 1872 , the CWS agreed to do so ; but in 1875 the employees ' right to a bonus was abrogated when delegates to a quarterly meeting of consumers ' societies ‘ swept away the entire bonus system after less than three years ’ trial , and at the same time abolished the United Employees ' Association and the privileges ' — that is , on the purchases of goods — ‘ attached to it , decreeing that employees should share and share alike with other members both as purchasers and as recipients of dividends on their purchases . ’ |
| 10 | We may agree with Cole 's conclusion that the resolution of the debate in favour of Consumers ' control was right at the time , but on ground of practical necessity . |
| 11 | As we saw earlier , the period which marks the emergence of Consumers ' Co-operation as virtually the sole objective of the Movement , and its rejection of authentic Producers ' Co-operation , coincides with Hobsbawm 's Age of Capital , that period which marked the phenomenal growth of a global economy of industrial capitalism and so held out the prospect of unlimited and unfailing progress — and nowhere more than in Britain which held a de facto international monopoly in trade in manufactures . |
| 12 | In 1874 J. T. W. Mitchell became Chairman of the CWS , and ‘ under his strong hand its activities were , Cole writes , ‘ rapidly developed ; and it was largely due to his personal influence that the ‘ federal ’ principle of consumers ' control came to be the accepted principle of the main body of the Movement . ’ |
| 13 | The logical consequence of this view of consumers ' use of advertising is that there is a far greater chance of involving potential customers in the ads for more complex and expensive products . |
| 14 | These measures are an important extension of consumers ' rights and some safeguard of individual liberty . |
| 15 | Providers must be fully informed of consumers ' needs and consumers must be fully informed of the services available and the options open to them . |
| 16 | Rather more than 20 years ago , over a lunch in Staff House , I was persuaded by three eminent lecturers of this University to allow them to nominate me for the Council of Consumers ' Association . |
| 17 | Much of the work of consumers ' organisations is responsive . |
| 18 | Complaints from CA , beginning in 1987 , and from the European Bureau of Consumers ' Unions , have resulted in the Commission initiating proceedings against the UK for incorrect translation of the directive . |
| 19 | [ … ] However the problem with regulation , as US experience testifies , is that the regulatory agency can become captured by the political interests of the industry it is regulating and fail to act as the guardian of consumers ' interests . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Further , it is assumed that units of consumers ' and producers ' surplus can be added and subtracted , i.e. a unit of surplus represents the same quantity of benefit irrespective of whether it accrues to the buyer or seller . |
| 22 | Thus , in comparing alternative economic structures the most efficient is defined as the one that generates the greatest total surplus , where that total surplus is the sum of consumers ' and producers ' surplus . |
| 23 | This demand for money arises out of consumers ' desires to provide for unexpected , and therefore unplanned , expenditures . |
| 24 | • Remove market distortions that act against consumers ' freedom of choice |
| 25 | Thorn EMI argues that this is unimportant , as meters can be read at any time , and switching operations can be pre-programmed into consumers ' equipment during the quiet hours . |
| 26 | Available from most libraries or bookshops , or by post from Consumers ' Association , Castlemead , Gasgoyne Way , Hertford , SG14 1LH . |
| 27 | Make Your Will : A practical guide to making your own will ( England and Wales ) — Available from bookshops or by post from Consumers ' Association , Castlemead , Gasgoyne Way , Hertford , SG14 1LH . |
| 28 | Price is £8.99 , available from bookshops or by post from Consumers ' Association , Castlemead , Gascoyne Way , Hertford X , SG14 1LH . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |