Example sentences of "dumping ground for " in BNC.
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| 1 | VIA was given no clear brief , no money for investment , an absurdly top-heavy management structure and a board described by Roy Jamieson as ‘ a dumping ground for political hacks . ’ |
| 2 | Rivers have always been a dumping ground for man 's unwanted waste . |
| 3 | ‘ But , Prime Minister , Bermuda is the ultimate dumping ground for superannuated diplomats . |
| 4 | Staveley GC shed had always been the local dumping ground for withdrawn and stored locos from the Sheffield area . |
| 5 | But the new admission that Britain is considering ( forgetting ) about further reprocessing plant opens up the possibility that the temporary store may become a long-term dumping ground for the industry 's most dangerous waste . |
| 6 | Over the centuries all the world 's religions have accumulated vast amounts of scriptures , as generation after generation struggled with the problems of defining an ever-growing variety of gods ; of endeavouring to explain the origins of the earth and the universe , ; of setting out independently the rights and wrongs of almost everything , ; of justifying caste systems and privilege by birth ; of seeking to instil a belief in an afterlife ; of explaining the complexities of simple and compound reincarnation , ; of building an hierarchy , sometimes with well-paid officers , ; of introducing rituals , rules and forms of worship , and combating ever growing scepticism until the whole world and all life would seem to be in existence solely for the purpose of providing space for this monstrous dumping ground for the products of centuries of speculative and ineffective effort . |
| 7 | They demanded that special consideration should be given to new OECD states , such as those in Eastern Europe , to ensure that these did not become a future dumping ground for EC waste . |
| 8 | Though the threat to build the airport seems to have receded , there is still talk of setting up a dumping ground for toxic waste close to the marshes . |
| 9 | There is a need to protect primary care from becoming a dumping ground for services which need to be provided but which they are currently not resourced to deal with . |
| 10 | The council denies that this Coventry estate is a dumping ground for single parents , a denial which is contradicted by the evidence of the inhabitants . |
| 11 | Be that as it may , there were still those in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who still continued to look on Siberia as an exploited colony whose population and resources were recklessly plundered and despoiled by the central government , whose merchantry continued to suffer under the ‘ economic yoke of Moscow ’ and the commercial interests of the centre , whose native peoples were many of them doomed to extinction , where such civil and political rights and modern judicial institutions as existed in tsarist Russia were largely denied to the population of Siberia , where the cultural and educational infrastructure was inadequate for the region 's needs , and which was still used as a distant dumping ground for the criminal sweepings of the rest of the empire . |
| 12 | It was unfit even for grazing purposes and its main function in human terms was that its near edges provided a useful if unofficial dumping ground for anything and everything . |
| 13 | BELFAST could soon see annual profits of over £1m go up in smoke and become a dumping ground for waste from all over Europe , it was warned today . |
| 14 | The governments of Australia and New Zealand gave qualified support for the plan , but the remaining Pacific states were strongly opposed to it , arguing that the region should not be used as a dumping ground for highly dangerous substances . |
| 15 | This last point represented a compromise between Scandinavian countries , which favoured a permanent ban , and France and the UK , which were keen to retain the option of using the sea as a dumping ground for large radioactive components from nuclear submarines and power stations . |
| 16 | The eugenics movement was a dumping ground for racial , sexual and class prejudices , extending already existing social control and punishment of people identified as ’ inferior ’ . |
| 17 | Another case example of international big business creating new markets for itself , then using these countries as a dumping ground for substandard products it could n't sell in Europe or the United States . |
| 18 | A meeting of oceanographers in Massachusetts has said that large-scale testing is needed to establish the ocean 's potential as a dumping ground for millions of tons of sewage sludge and toxic waste . |
| 19 | The lakes have been used by both industry and farmers as a dumping ground for a variety of potentially toxic chemicals , including polychlorinated biphenyls ( PCBs ) and organochlorine insecticides such as dieldrin and DDT . |
| 20 | The city 's canals are used as a dumping ground for a range of toxic pollutants . |
| 21 | Prison officers at a new jail say it 's becoming a dumping ground for unruly inmates . |
| 22 | And he refuted claims that Bullingdon is becoming a dumping ground for troublemakers . |
| 23 | Alan Shannon , a Peterhead delegate , who moved the successful motion , said : ‘ Peterhead has been the dumping ground for disruptive prisoners for years . |
| 24 | She said of the IRA : ‘ I can only think they are a dumping ground for psychotics and maniacs . |
| 25 | She said of the IRA : ‘ I can only think they are a dumping ground for psychotics and maniacs . |