Example sentences of "[noun] to the [adj] sector " in BNC.

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1 Government can hand over the production of a good to the private sector while still financing it , as with refuse collection or cleaning and maintaining public sector buildings .
2 The police responded by re-routing the march to the Catholic sector of the town but NICRA refused to accept this , since it would have implied that theirs was a sectarian march .
3 Psion Plc has made a strong recovery for the year to December 31 due to a large increase in both international sales and sales of its Series 3 range of handheld computers to the retail sector .
4 The civil service is on the right path and it often serves as a good guide and leading light to the private sector .
5 Foreign aid to the public sector will be grabbed by grandee ministers ; aid to the private sector will mostly help the grandees who run it .
6 Foreign aid to the public sector will be grabbed by grandee ministers ; aid to the private sector will mostly help the grandees who run it .
7 That is why , after the next election , we shall introduce firm proposals for returning the industry to the private sector .
8 The informatics graduate can expect to be at the forefront of the development of new software products and tools or to follow a career in developing technology applications for a range of areas — from industry to the public sector and from health care to agriculture .
9 At Hinde House this team of teachers was selected by the staff and centred its attention on the transition from middle schools to the secondary sector and the curriculum which should be provided in the Y8 group .
10 Privatization is the sale of public sector companies to the private sector .
11 Governments have tried to introduce the disciplines of the market into the management of public enterprises , and in many cases , have returned companies to the private sector .
12 Similarly the NHS could hire out spare capacity to the private sector ( eg pay beds ) and sell support services ( eg X-rays ) .
13 After a survey of 140 local authorities , the RIBA concluded that the total backlog of repairs and maintenance work to the public sector housing stock was in excess of £10 billion .
14 The remit ofthe last two included plans to prepare BA and BL for a return to the private sector .
15 He also underwent the unique experience of being asked by successive governments to take a hand in both the nationalisation of British Aerospace and its subsequent return to the private sector .
16 These solutions , together with the unsuccessful moves to sell various parts of Rover to US multinationals and Rover 's subsequent return to the private sector , are considered later in the chapter .
17 This latter effect would directly influence the calculations of suppliers of commodities to the public sector , and indirectly influence other enterprises through its ‘ multiplier ’ repercussions .
18 This would end the gifting by the NHS to the private sector in Scotland of not less than £200,000 each year ( over £2 million south of the Border ) .
19 ‘ A partnership between local and central Government on inner city policy must be one between partners who believe in attracting private enterprise and capital through a constructive attitude to the private sector , low rates , sensible planning and the pursuit of excellence in education , housing and many other essential services .
20 Godoy 's supporters opposed such a conciliatory stance to the Sandinistas and saw the return of properties to their original owners as a test of the government 's attitude to the private sector .
21 Conversely , the major benefits of privatization are likely to stem not from literally returning ownership to the private sector , but rather from associated measures which make it clear to managers that they are expected to compete effectively and efficiently .
22 The fact that the two random movements are linked is no help to the private sector in predicting them .
23 A transfer of ownership from the public sector to the private sector
24 The most prominent aspect of privatisation , as practised by the Conservative government , has been the transfer of ownership of assets from the public sector to the private sector ( as in definition 1 ) , and it is the arguments for this that are now considered .
25 A million homes were sold by the public sector to the private sector during the Conservative government 's first two terms ( 1979–87 ) ( see Figure 8.1 ) .
26 The criticisms made are very similar to some of those made of the government 's programme for privatising nationalised industries , namely , the government may have a clear policy on transferring firms from the public sector to the private sector , but lacks a real industrial policy .
27 Similarly the government may have a clear policy on transferring houses from the public sector to the private sector , but it lacks a real housing policy .
28 In this long-term view the weight of employment moves from the primary sector to the secondary sector and then to the tertiary or service sector .
29 Government figures maintain that 250m would be collected from books at 17 ½%; VAT , but this figure does not take into account rebates to the public sector and reduced sales . ’
30 If ownership transfer to the private sector has any direct benefit , it is only the one we cited above ; namely , that it makes it less easy for governments to use industries to meet the requirements of other political dictates .
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