Example sentences of "the region " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Forum will focus on four main topics — A VIEW FROM THE BROADCASTERS ( reflecting on the range of schemes now available in the regions for new directors , for example , BBC Bristol 's 10x10 ; TVS/Southern Arts — Take One ; — Shoot First etc ) ; NEW FICTIONS , NEW WRITERS — where are the opportunities for new dramas and new ways of telling tales ? ; |
| 2 | Both direct approaches and efforts to set up regional recruitment events are yielding positive results in four of the regions and we are still awaiting response to the other four . |
| 3 | Once this issue has been resolved we will increase our efforts in the regions . |
| 4 | This augurs well for the regions . |
| 5 | In other words , the regions were both production and marketing organisations . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , essentially the regions ran the show . |
| 7 | An innovation in organisation sectorisation resulted in the regions losing their business roles and becoming purely the providers of services and facilities . |
| 8 | Within the regions there have also been big changes , notably first the creation of area management , then the abolition of the divisions . |
| 9 | There must now be a real question-mark over the continuing existence of the regions . |
| 10 | Each territory would have been a complete business organisation in its own area , but because no territory would have been large enough to run a complete main line a great deal more co-operation would have been necessary than existed between the regions , and on a much more formal basis . |
| 11 | There is a need for close and on-going liaison with the regions and PTEs , but at the end of the day it is the sector that calls the tune . |
| 12 | This was first bought in the 1970s by the regions , but it has been deployed under sectorisation with singleminded determination to maximise earnings . |
| 13 | The story of how the traditional management through the regions has been transformed into a marketing one based on the sectors is told elsewhere . |
| 14 | Pied Piper and Merrymaker outings , locally organised specials , and a profusion of enthusiast-orientated railtours were run with little or no coordination between the regions , with the result that there was remarkable disparity in standards and even the level of fares . |
| 15 | Mr Patten spent much of yesterday emphasising that he wanted to respect local decisions , and that once the regions and his department had worked out overall allocations , it was for local electorates to decide where they put the bricks and mortar . |
| 16 | It also approved the Democracy and the Individual review , proposing : To replace the House of Lords with an elected second chamber ; Devolved assemblies for Scotland , Wales , and the regions of England ; Unification of Ireland only by consent of the majority in the North ; A Freedom of Information Act ; A Ministry for Women ; A Department of Legal Administration to run the courts ; Extend legal aid ; A statutory duty on local councils to provide integrated child care services for the under-fives ; A Children 's Commissioner to act as an ombudsman on childrens ' rights ; Firm opposition to reform of the voting system for the House of Commons . |
| 17 | ‘ What we will expect the regions to do is adhere to the firm budgets by doing their job properly , ’ he said . |
| 18 | If the regions revive , the revival will be powered from the South-east . |
| 19 | Gerry Grimstone , a director of Schroders , the Government 's merchant bank for the water flotations , claimed that the response so far had been extremely encouraging , with interest spread broadly across the country and ‘ no signs of an investor strike ’ in any of the regions . |
| 20 | Because southern prices rose faster than those in the regions in the mid-1980s , for instance , by last year an average house in Yorkshire and Humberside , which in 1983 had been worth 69 per cent of a similar one in London , was worth only 40 per cent of one in the capital . |
| 21 | Frequent orders from Moscow to appoint them indicate that until after the Twelfth Party Congress party editors were the exception rather than the rule in the regions . |
| 22 | The poet has ascended through all the regions of Hell and Purgatory , and now at last , on the threshold of Paradise , comes to his long-expected reunion with Beatrice . |
| 23 | In particular , sales people in the regions often notice or see promising local bands . |
| 24 | REPORT FROM THE REGIONS |
| 25 | One of the main causes of recurrent famine throughout Ethiopia is the problem of massive deforestation , although in the regions of Wollo , Tigray and Eritrea it has been made worse by war . |
| 26 | Mr Brown added to this list investment in training , research , technology , innovation , and in the regions . |
| 27 | It will also instruct all the regions in Scotland to produce a forestry strategy which earmarks land for tree planting . |
| 28 | Half are going to the regions , especially the south-west . |
| 29 | The Greens believe ( said the British manifesto ) in a decentralized ‘ Europe of the Regions ’ which would develop into a Agalevn all-embracing confederation ‘ from Lappland to Armenia ’ . |
| 30 | The conflict between abhorrence of the institution and the political expediency which obliges Greens to seek seats in it leads to a rather antiphonal quality in much of what the Greens have to say on Europe and the devolution of power to the regions . |