Example sentences of "[be] phased [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 The duty , which was to have been phased out over a nine-month period to March 1991 , was dismissed as ineffective because shoppers would be able to circumvent it by buying in the West after July 1 .
2 This aspect of the work has been phased out over the last few years as the UK content in most projects has risen to more than 70 per cent , leaving OSO to concentrate on its other roles in encouraging research and development into new offshore technology and using UK expertise to gain export orders on the back of North Sea achievements .
3 The implication of this three-year transition is that the existing assessment and examination system will be phased out over a number of years , as courses are transferred to the new system .
4 2.3 The implication of this three-year transition is that the existing assessment and examination system will be phased out over a number of years , as courses are transferred to the new system .
5 Protection will be phased out over the following three years ( 1991–92 to 1993–94 ) .
6 Ideally some of the training centres should be phased out with a view to developing more flexible training arrangements for a wider range of young people who may or may not be mentally handicapped .
7 The immediate ‘ bone ’ offered to Mrs Castle was the phasing out of 1,000 pay beds , but that thereafter further pay beds would only be phased out on the direction of the newly established board , with a number of criteria required to justify the release of additional beds : the principal one being the establishment of an alternative source of private beds in the locality of change .
8 The restrictions began to be phased out towards the end of the month .
9 Before the start of the conference , the UK Agriculture Minister , John Gummer , announced that industrial dumping would be phased out in the UK by 1992 , except in the case of ICI and Sterling Organics ( responsible for 78 per cent of all industrial waste dumped in the North Sea ) which would be licensed to dump until 1993 .
10 It was agreed to tighten the Protocol so that CFC production and consumption would be phased out by the year 2000 , and that halon and ‘ other ozone depleting substances ’ should be phased out as soon as feasible .
11 I want those subsidies to be phased down by the Community , and I also want to encourage British coal to be exported to Germany if that is a way to deal with the problem .
12 Advisers say the change — aimed at meeting European Community moves towards equality for the sexes — should be phased in over a 15-year period .
13 However , this is not expected to happen for some time and even when reform is introduced , the probability is that it will be phased in over a number of years .
14 Any new planting was designed to be phased in over a period of years , planting schemes having to take account of the need to create a distinctive landscape for the immediate future as well as for the long term .
15 SCOTVEC 's new system of Advanced Courses will be phased in over a three year period .
16 Bush did not indicate how the changes , which were to be phased in over a five-year period at a cost of up to $100,000 million , would be financed .
17 The tax will be phased in over a three-year period from July 1994 .
18 The extra 300 staff will be phased in over the next few years .
19 An extra £310 million would be allocated in 1991 and £1,250 million over three years to extend the existing system of transitional relief to those whose bills had increased by £100 per year or more ( £150 previously ) , benefiting a further 4,000,000 people in addition to the 7,500,000 already covered ; and adjustments were made to help those faced with charges for second homes or for joint business/residential premises and those in areas being phased out of the " safety net " arrangements applying in 25 local authorities .
20 Like the Jaguar and lightning jets , they 're being phased out of the RAF because they 're considered too expensive to service .
21 Nor are the prospects , even for Galway , as bad as they appear at the moment : workers reportedly wept openly in the Digital canteen when told their jobs were being phased out over the next 12 months , but the fear that most of the subcontractors that served DEC will have to close as well is not likely to be realised : where a company has a good relationship with a subcontractor , there are good reasons for maintaining that relationship even after a plant closes , and work should start flowing across the Irish Sea all the way to Galway from Scotland .
22 In 1990 it will be extended to cover all SCOTVEC certification with the exception of the old system of HNCs and HNDs which are being phased out over the next few years .
23 The plant is due to close next month as one of the solvents used in the process there , carbon tetrachloride , is being phased out under an international agreement to limit use of chemicals which damage the ozone layer .
24 Although today these vital units of the railway system are being phased out by the modern fully automated control centres , there still remains the lonely , isolated signal box , often miles from anywhere , that on a dark winter 's night can conjure up strange happenings and instil fear even in the heart of the most level-headed signalman .
25 Child tax allowances which were the main tax recognition of the extra costs of children , were phased out following the introduction of child benefit in 1977 .
26 Given that this reform will hit hardest those firms with most part-time workers , it is suggested that this change is phased in over a five-year period .
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