Example sentences of "of a link " in BNC.

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1 Opening the debate , Mr Smith did not return to this theme but dwelt on ‘ the pathways out of poverty ’ proposed in the review , notably the introduction of a statutory minimum wage and the restoration of a link between pensions and average earnings .
2 The Tunnel was the British version of a film that had already been made in France and Germany , about a crazed engineer who sacrifices his family in order to complete the construction of a link between Britain and America .
3 For their part , Thai officials reject the suggestion of a link between the failure to get the would-be bombers and the sacking of the national police chief , Police-General Sawaeng Thirasawat .
4 I see no advantage in adopting the Labour Government 's negative stance and ruling out all possibility of a link being built .
5 It also marked the breaking of a link with the past through the death of Miss Helen Stocks who had done much to promote and sustain the work of the District and the WEA in its early years in Northamptonshire .
6 The Department of Health issued a ‘ guidance note ’ to Chief Environmental Health Officers in 1985 which , in the words of David Wheeler of Surrey University 's Robens Institute , ‘ dismissed the possibility of a link between nitrates in water and stomach cancer in the UK ’ .
7 Just like the CEGB and ‘ proof ’ of a link between pollution and damage to lakes , the Commission put up one condition after another as a ‘ test ’ of whether Britain 's trees were showing decline , and then replaced it with a new argument if it was satisfied .
8 Rossi pointed out that the Commission 's denial of a link between forest decline and pollution was ‘ quite contrary ’ to evidence from others and ‘ the Swedes , Norwegians and Germans who fear that there is a very , very direct connection ’ .
9 Now there are problems with the simple postulation of a link between unemployment , crime , and disorder , as Mrs Thatcher is only too ready to point out .
10 Here Serpell 's computer was programmed to assume ‘ the loss of freight revenue from the deletion of a link to be limited to the revenue directly attributed to the link . ’
11 Smoking statistics support the idea of a link .
12 Although she had responsibility for other areas , she considered that her appointment had begun to dissolve some of the negative feelings caused by the lack of a link person .
13 In the ‘ embedded ’ case a text block is at the end of a link ( see Figure 2 ) .
14 Accordingly , the representation of a link object was expanded to include the attribute ‘ title ’ .
15 The brief interval allowed for the establishment of a link between neutral and significant events was at one time elevated into a general law of associative learning .
16 Comments already cited from the forty interviews have demonstrated that women are often aware of a link between their own ways of doing housework and those of their mothers .
17 However , he has elaborated on the simple quantity theory to provide a more sophisticated framework for the explanation of a link between monetary growth and inflation .
18 Its wide-ranging format allowed children 's costume drama , previously thought the sole preserve of the Classic Serials Division , to be made more appealing by means of a link to the space age .
19 The transition may also consist of a link verb such as be or seem , or any verb whose main function is simply to link the foundation-laying and core-constituting elements of a clause .
20 Some years ago the British Council identified primary care as one of the priorities for development of a link programme between Britain and Brazil .
21 By making the assumption that one orientation of a link in a chain relative to its neighbour is energetically preferred over all others they show that a temperature exists at which the configurational entropy vanishes , giving a true second-order transition at this point .
22 The recent announcement of a link up between the EC and EFTA to create a European Economic Area [ EEA ] by 1993 is likely to have little immediate impact on the proportion of exports destined for these areas , partly because privileged access to each others markets has already been in existence for a number of years between the two trading blocks .
23 The issue of a link to Balerno has been covered by the report .
24 Just over 6pc were worried about BSE despite the absence , as yet , of any evidence of a link between the disease and sickness in humans .
25 Two studies in Sweden have provided the first convincing evidence of a link between exposure to electromagnetic radiation from overhead power lines and the incidence of cancer , according to officials from the Swedish National Board for Industrial and Technical Development .
26 Cancer specialists say new reasearch shows greater evidence of a link between children suffering from leukaemia and the work carried out by their fathers at nuclear sites.Families of children who 've died are calling for a public inquiry .
27 SKIPTON building society , the UK 's fifteenth-largest , has terminated its five-year old tied-agency agreement with the life assurer , Legal & General , in favour of a link with GA Life , the York-based offshoot of General Accident .
28 Many people would say that even the possibility of a link would justify action , but the ITC already has detailed restrictions and before jerking one 's knee it 's necessary to know the nature of the material that may be subject to cuts .
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