Example sentences of "to [verb] [adj] problems " in BNC.
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| 1 | Statements such as these reflected growing confidence and optimism among members of the profession ; the conviction that state-backed medicine , as opposed to voluntary and charitable effort , provided the ultimate solution to pressing social problems . |
| 2 | Foucault 's distrust of conventional forms of history , as we have seen , is a consistent thread in his project , as is his insistence that his historical method is limited to addressing specific problems — often comparable to those posed by the social sciences — to historical documents and practices in order to make them intelligible . |
| 3 | Science offers a key to solving environmental problems by providing more data to construct better predictive models . |
| 4 | This report is a comprehensive analysis and critique of ‘ Blueprint for a Green Economy ’ by Pearce et al and examines the limitations of a market approach to solving environmental problems . |
| 5 | In particular his concern with social benefit and social cost ( the costs of ill-health fall on the community , not just the individual ) , the view that welfare spending should be regarded as a social investment which could increase national productivity and efficiency and his technocratic approach to solving social problems are all typically Fabian . |
| 6 | For some they herald the dawn of a new age in computing ; others see them as nothing more than conventional programmes limited to solving trivial problems . |
| 7 | The aim of this research proect is firstly to identify the characteristics of an algebraic as opposed to an arithmetical approach to solving mathematical problems . |
| 8 | The report considers which level of geographical unit is most suited to analysing regional problems in the Community from the three levels defined in the mid-1970s and subsumed under the French acronym , NUTS levels I , II and III . |
| 9 | Political sociologists , in so far as they are not engaged in mainly descriptive and historical studies , now devote much of their effort either to analysing methodological problems of the kind which I outlined in the Introduction , or to reappraising and reinterpreting those nineteenth-century theories in which the ideas with which I have been concerned throughout this book — democracy , class , capitalism , socialism , the nation — were originally formulated and diffused . |
| 10 | Long-term planning took a back seat in the deliberations of the senior engineers whose efforts were principally devoted to overcoming short-term problems . |
| 11 | An exception to these incremental approaches to growing traffic-related problems was the broader perspective provided by Alker Tripp , an Assistant Commissioner at Scotland Yard with much experience of traffic problems in a large city . |
| 12 | Hydrogeochemical maps are being developed as an aid to interpreting environmental problems such as acidification and agricultural and mining pollution . |
| 13 | Although attention is given in the discussions to underlying emotional problems such as we have described in this chapter , some people 's emotional ‘ blocks ’ do not shift in this setting . |
| 14 | Key Cabinet changes attributed to mounting economic problems under UN sanctions were announced on July 30 . |