Example sentences of "[art] priority given " in BNC.
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| 1 | In both countries , therefore , the priority given to education was reflected in high levels of expenditure . |
| 2 | There are specific difficulties affecting the primary sector such as the reduced ability to release teaching staff , the demands of National Curriculum implementation , a perceived lack of relevance and the priority given to the secondary sector by many companies . |
| 3 | One outward , visible sign — alongside a daily obedience to God — is the priority given to songs and expressions of worship . |
| 4 | Both this case , and Gomba Holdings UK Ltd v Minories Finance Ltd , which dealt with the taxation of a receiver 's costs ( see ACCOUNTANCY , August , p 86 ) , indicate that the days of undisputed acceptance of insolvency practitioners ' fees are over — perhaps a natural reaction , given the recession and the priority given to the payment of such fees in an insolvency . |
| 5 | Inevitably the inequality in numbers was reflected in the priority given to issues . |
| 6 | As the level of county commitment to social education lessens it would seem to be a time for us as members of local parish , town and diocesan communities to look at the priority given to such work with our own young people . |
| 7 | Their belief that government activism can lead to benign policy changes has been echoed in the priority given by the administration to health care reform . |
| 8 | We have already seen how authority within companies is deemed legitimate when it is based on educational achievement and length of service ; attitudes towards public sector bureaucrats who occupy high office are likewise framed by the priority given to individual merit displayed by educational status . |
| 9 | Association with colleagues after working hours could be taken as an indication of the priority given to company matters but it may be reluctantly undertaken . |
| 10 | In so far as this book is a plea for some measure of reform in the priority given to sexual considerations in social work cases , public attitudes must be seen as creating obstacles . |
| 11 | The following examples , adapted from Firbas ( 1986 : 58 ) illustrate the priority given to context over linear arrangement . |
| 12 | Separating them out , however , signals the priority given by most parents to managing the economic dependency of living on state benefits as independently as possible . |
| 13 | Alongside the priority given to food and fuel goes a restriction of expenditure on items which are — or can be treated as — individual and less essential , like clothes , shoes , private transport and leisure . |
| 14 | Because of the priority given to these ‘ fixed costs ’ , mothers typically draw on the household income when it is at its most depleted . |
| 15 | It might also be hoped that a fairer distribution of resources would result but that might depend not only on the restraints of the individual care manager 's budget but also on the priority given to dementia . |
| 16 | Johnson , ( 1985 , pp. 428 , 432 ) feels ‘ that the priority given to effective and efficient management by the civil service will endure ’ ; and Greenaway ( 1987 , p. 53 ) sees it as ‘ inconceivable … that recent developments in these areas will simply be reversed following a change of Government ’ . |
| 17 | Examples would be recruitment strategies ( for example , the priority given to local mature entries ) , aspects of teaching methods ( for example , the development of distance learning ) , or response to local or national surveys ( for example , of courses likely to meet training needs ) . |
| 18 | The method is as much a creation of their history and culture as is the priority given to the issues they compete about . |
| 19 | We support the priority given to these key policy issues and would again recommend the formula we suggested in 2.2 . |
| 20 | The priority given to resettlement through access to housing will probably be the greatest determinant of the fairness of Government policy on redundancy . |
| 21 | It could take three years or even more , depending on the exact nature of the change and , of course , the priority given to it . |
| 22 | I particularly welcome the priority given to the patients charter , which will reduce appointment waiting times and waiting lists in hospitals , and to the schools charter , which will make sure that parents get the fullest information on their children 's education . |
| 23 | Romania 's once-thriving agriculture sector , collectivized under the Communist regime , had been starved of resources for development , because of the priority given to large-scale industrialization : Iliescu revealed that official agricultural production statistics had been grossly exaggerated . |
| 24 | In line with the priority given to tax reforms , income tax was raised ( reportedly for the first time since 1967 ) from 7.2 per cent to 10.5 per cent . |
| 25 | The massive exodus of the rural populace to towns in Spain or abroad , which began in earnest towards the end of the 1950s , bore witness to the priority given , in the Francoist scale of values , to preserving the patrimony of the strong , rather than to caring for the welfare of the weak . |
| 26 | After the demise of the first national curriculum , the priority given to history in schools was dependent upon the continued dominance of the liberal academic tradition in education . |
| 27 | The one search will serve if you act also for a mortgagee , in which case name the mortgagee rather than the buyer , because the priority given to the mortgagee extends to the buyer , but not vice versa . |
| 28 | The former Conservative Cabinet minister , John Biffen , welcomed the priority given to the industrial sector but voiced the concerns of a number of Tory MPs over the size of the public sector borrowing requirement , which is expected to rise to £50 billion in 1993/4 . |
| 29 | Mr Lang talks about reviving the priority given to literacy and numeracy , about restoring teachers ' standing in the community , about discipline , pride , respect . |
| 30 | Often a priority given to some activity in this police hierarchy of meaning has been laid down from a constable 's first days as a probationer and now lies beneath the immediate consciousness , so that any calls for a change in direction of police response may well be defeated by an unspoken semantic value which the institution gives to that activity . |