Example sentences of "[coord] quality of [noun] " in BNC.

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1 … it is possible to reduce the number and intensity of legal obligations on educational organizations without decreasing the quantity or quality of education in any respect .
2 Social support may be measured in terms of quantity or quality of contacts .
3 Critics of the government 's drive for efficiency claim that it is motivated more by considerations of cost rather than of value for money or quality of service provided .
4 The interest which is most frequently , though not exclusively , excluded from participation is one based on feelings of ‘ public concern ’ , for example , over the environment , or quality of life , as opposed to private , property-related interests , or the public interest , which is articulated by professional public administrators .
5 For example , with scant evidence that either length or quality of life is enhanced by coronary artery bypass surgery , American surgeons are four times more likely than Canadian surgeons to perform this procedure on patients aged over 75 .
6 Most of these minor illnesses last only a few days or weeks : what are needed , therefore , are the measures quality of life days or quality of life weeks .
7 In summary , chemotherapy is effective in a small proportion of patients with gastric cancer , but does not provide substantial improvements in the length or quality of life in most .
8 Organisers of the Women 's Festival are looking for the woman who has done most for the welfare , health or quality of life of women in the town in the last year .
9 A superior quality of relationships or quality of teaching is n't built upon genius in the headteacher 's room or any magical acts , but built on listening , trust and respect for the dignity and creative potential of each person connected with the school .
10 The strength of the National Rifle Association , widely acknowledged as America 's single most powerful lobby , reflects not integrity or quality of message , but an awesome logistical capability backed up by lots and lots of money .
11 The gradual change in the form or quality of behaviours as a result of selective reinforcement of variable response characteristics is referred to as shaping .
12 The bill of lading is a document that the master of the vessel gives to the merchant-shipper in which he acknowledges having received on board a number of packages or cases containing the quantity or quality of merchandise to be consigned or delivered to a person in the place where the ship must go .
13 Children who perform differently at different times of day may be reacting to a changed quantity or quality of lighting level .
14 Liaison with the marketing department is important to ensure that the productive effort is meeting the customer 's needs , or , where there are difficulties in production , ensuring that the customer is informed and/or is prepared to accept a slightly different standard or quality of product , for example .
15 It is of crucial importance to avoid a result in which there is an overall reduction in the quantity or quality of attention given to the child .
16 We ca n't use the actual mark , or quality of answere as the standard , we must stick with whatever the 50th child gets .
17 The Government has authorised this new approach with a view to improving value for money and quality of work .
18 There can be no good reason to object to this when it is recognised that efficiency incorporates personal factors such as safety , health and quality of working life as well as system factors such as productivity and quality of work .
19 Setting standards for the amount and quality of work to be done by employees often does not provide an effective means of controlling their performance .
20 This in turn depends on the amount and quality of work done by the client , or on his or her behalf , before and during construction .
21 ‘ Anything that improves the accuracy and quality of government statistics would be welcomed by the economic profession , ’ Kevin Darlington , a UK economist with City analysists Phillips and Drew , said .
22 and an individual 's integrity and quality of life
23 ‘ Unless we move immediately into high growth , high technology areas our standard of living and quality of life will deteriorate and we will degenerate into a Third World nation .
24 Similar UK movements , both within and outside the trade union movement , are now working to improve the condition , status and quality of life of pensioners .
25 ‘ We were doing a project on environment and quality of life in Europe , ’ said Mrs Lambert .
26 To assess long term survival ( >5 years ) and quality of life in severely ill patients referred for urgent cardiac transplantation .
27 In severely ill patients who undergo urgent cardiac transplantation and survive in the short term , long term ( 5–7 year ) survival and quality of life seem good .
28 clinical state and quality of life
29 Our long term follow up study of patients who underwent urgent cardiac transplantation shows that many such patients can do excellently , both in terms of survival and quality of life .
30 Previous reports had suggested that such subgroups of patients did well in terms of survival in the short and medium term after transplantation , assuming that the development of renal failure requiring dialysis had not occurred before receiving a suitable organ , and quality of life has been shown to increase in absolute terms after such a procedure .
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