Example sentences of "of the balance of [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 My hon. Friend the Under-Secretary of State understood my concern , but thought that institutions such as those in Croydon should be interested in exploring the possibility of incorporation within the new further education sector by reason of the balance of provisions that they make .
2 The question then is not one of the balance of quantities between ‘ market ’ and ‘ non-market ’ activities , but of the quality of performance of such services which vitally inter-relate with more directly market-determined employment .
3 For an authority is legitimate only if there are sufficient reasons to accept it , i.e. sufficient reasons to follow its directives regardless of the balance of reasons on the merits of such action .
4 In agreeing to obey his decision they agreed to follow his judgment of the balance of reasons rather than their own .
5 The Knoedler pieces are evocations in welded metal of the balance of forms in some of the most famous Western paintings , Manet 's Dejeuner sur l'herbe and the Descent from the Cross as interpreted by Rubens and Rembrandt .
6 In its turn this superiority posed problems of collaboration with the allies — and indeed of the balance of forces between Romans and allies — which occasionally emerge from our sources ( for instance , Livy , 25.33.6 ) , but which no ancient writer analysed , not even Polybius .
7 Because of the complexity of the balance of forces represented in the new parliament , the formation of a government was expected to take a number of weeks .
8 We present a physical description of the balance of forces stabilising nucleic acid structures in solution ( based on experimental data from the literature ) , and partition the free energy change per base pair interaction into a sum of free energy contributions ( equation 1 ) .
9 On the basis of their needs assessment , which includes consultation with consumer groups and GPs , purchasing authorities adjust their priorities in terms of the balance of resources which should be devoted to particular care groups , and the balance between health promotion , prevention , treatment and care .
10 So we come back around the circle to the capital side of the balance of payments , and the operationally interesting question : for how long can we expect the world 's savers to make up our domestic shortage ?
11 He then goes on to criticise Labour for suggesting that priority spending on education and training can help overcome the difficulties of the balance of payments deficit — because such investment programmes take generations to work through the system .
12 For however inaccurate the figures are , their inaccuracies can not have increased sufficiently to explain the sharply deteriorating trend of the balance of payments over the last few years .
13 The underlying trend of the balance of payments was extremely adverse ; although the average growth of total output was only just over 1 per cent ( slower than in any six-year period previous to Thatcher ) , the current account excluding oil moved from a small surplus in 1979 to a deficit of £5bn in 1985 .
14 Glaringly absent from yesterday 's speech were any mention of the balance of payments , the recent excitement on the money markets , exchange rate policy or the European Monetary System .
15 Many in the Cabinet felt that Callaghan would be in a uniquely favourable position , both politically and in terms of the balance of payments , to call an election in October .
16 This disparity loomed ever larger in the rescue of the balance of payments .
17 For the latter system greatly reduces the incentive to export and leads to a progressive worsening of the balance of payments .
18 Denis [ Healey ] admitted that it was very unlikely we could close the whole of the balance of payments gap by 1978–79 , even if things went well .
19 However , the consumer boom caused a rapid deterioration in the current account of the balance of payments and an upturn in the rate of inflation .
20 From the Radcliffe Report [ 1959 ] onwards , moreover , figures have been produced to show the value of their contribution ; and over the period invisible exports from the financial sector have been cast in the role of saviour of the balance of payments .
21 The broad features of the balance of payments are shown in Table XIII .
22 In the previous chapter we identified the major variables which influence the current account of the balance of payments and examined how automatic and discretionary adjustments operate to rectify payments imbalances .
23 Our discussion of the balance of payments in Section 7. i.1 showed that payments imbalances on the current account would need to be offset by transactions in assets and liabilities ( the capital account ) ; a deficit on the current account , as in the case of the USA ( and also the UK ) , is offset by inflows of funds in the form of short-term and long-term capital .
24 Since 1972 in the UK there has been available an additional means for the achievement of the balance of payments objective : the adoption of floating exchange rates .
25 Given that previous periods of rapid growth had been brought to a halt in the face of escalating deficits on the balance of payments , largely because of the high marginal propensity to import manufactured goods , the improvement of the balance of payments figured prominently in the plan .
26 Wilson had borne a personal grudge against ‘ politically motivated ’ militants ever since the seamen 's strike of 1966 had spoiled his incomes policy and the attempted revival of the balance of payments upon which he had staked so much of his credibility .
27 The impact of North Sea oil on the structure of the balance of payments may actually have reduced the absolute volume of manufacturing exports .
28 Previously , on Oct. 9 , 1989 , the Reserve Bank of South Africa ( central bank ) had raised interest rates for the third time that year by 1 per cent to 18 per cent to protect the capital account of the balance of payments .
29 The current-account deficit of the balance of payments had decreased , falling to $1,200 million in 1989/90 from $1,600 million in the previous year .
30 The only negative aspect highlighted by the report was an increased deficit in the current account of the balance of payments ; however the overall balance of payments was expected to remain positive because of large capital inflows .
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