Example sentences of "[noun sg] can [be] [vb pp] [prep] economic " in BNC.
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| 1 | For my part , it seems clear that a viable distinction can be made between economic growth ( measured on such criteria as GNP per capita , proportion of the labour force engaged in industry , and the proportion of manufactured goods in total exports ) and development , which has somewhat wider social and political implications . |
| 2 | The case for taxing property can be made on economic and practical grounds . |
| 3 | Of course , the problem can be expressed in economic terms — the maintenance of a given number of aged people in the conditions of modern society is relatively more costly than in the past : in accommodation , in service , and in attention — but , as I say , money benefits and subsidies are not the heart of the matter . |
| 4 | The development of paper money can be traced to economic and social developments in Western Europe during the 1600s . |
| 5 | The relationship between state groups and civil society was thus fundamentally different from that in Britain , a point brought into focus by Linz 's comment that the ‘ access of the political elites , the military , bureaucrats , Catholics and Opus Dei to positions of economic power in the public sector , and increasingly in the private sector , poses the interesting and difficult question of the extent to which political power can be transformed into economic power rather than the reverse ’ ( 1981 : 392 – 30 ) . |