Example sentences of "[adj] government [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Bottomley 's first big test as Health Secretary will come this summer with the annual public spending round , which will be conducted against a background of concern over high Government borrowing and pressure from the Tory Right for public spending cuts . |
| 2 | The undisputed deterioration of the performance of the British economy was largely attributed to increases in taxation , high government borrowing and inflation . |
| 3 | It was given by Aird , the Comptroller of the Patent Office — quite a high government official . ’ |
| 4 | After a few weeks of agitation in the press , Mr Pozderac resigned from his high government office , although still declaring his innocence . |
| 5 | In two recent books which attempt to examine the philosophy and practice of a radical adult education , the only substantial references to education for trade unionists are historical ; yet both books were conceived at a time of unparalleled expansion in trade union education , underpinned by a sizeable government grant and the first statutory entitlements to paid educational leave for working-class people that Britain has ever experienced . |
| 6 | The change in the results is because the company and its auditors discovered that , ‘ based on information that has recently come to their attention , ’ payment for about $5.3m in equipment orders from a foreign government agency , recorded in the third quarter of fiscal 1992 , will not be forthcoming on the schedule expected . |
| 7 | US and other foreign government aid |
| 8 | It will be seen from the text of the section that it does not require a Letter of Request to be issued ; an application may be made directly by any interested person , a litigant , a foreign government official , or a prosecutor such as the English Director of Public Prosecutions . |
| 9 | Mick Hayes believes the only way to get to the bottom of whether living next to power cables can damage your health is a full-scale Government inquiry . |
| 10 | Private detectives employed by the Kuwaiti government claim to have discovered that Saddam Hussein has hidden assets in more than 40 banks around the world , $2.4 billion of which are not frozen by UN sanctions . |
| 11 | These centres may attract finance from a variety of sources , mainly local authorities , and there has been some government funding . |
| 12 | There is the prospect of some government funding to compare the underpinning knowledge of NVQs/SVQs at these higher levels with that demanded for qualifications offered by the CIB . |
| 13 | That — and not some Government decision — is what will determine how many pits stay open . |
| 14 | Table 16–3 reminds us that some government expenditure is financed by borrowing . |
| 15 | He was advised that his best chances for advancement in life lay in spending some time at the royal court and seeking some government office . |
| 16 | In their view the economy has the capacity to adjust to technological changes and maintain full employment , though some government action may be needed in order to aid the adjustment process . |
| 17 | Ah well cos I think the newer one will be this is some government thing to do with the gas . |
| 18 | To imagine or write otherwise , to situate black people throughout the pages and scenes of a book like some government quota , would be ludicrous and dishonest . |
| 19 | But on a visit to a local job centre , Gillian Shepherd has admitted some government training does n't help unemployed people as much as it should . |
| 20 | It was as if in some government department in Washington , Damascus , Paris , Jerusalem , Rome or London , there were people who understood the true meaning of this military involvement and were trying to square the adventure with history . |
| 21 | They built a house , the Villa Eugénie , which eventually grew into the present Hôtel du Palais , a vast building close to the lush sands of the Grande Plage ( formerly known as the Plage tea Fous , because only the reckless , if not the insane , were thought likely to risk swimming there ) , very monumental and with a tricolour flying above it , as if it were some government department rather than merely a hotel . |
| 22 | Once we passed a single telephone line , dangling on rickety poles , connecting Addis Ababa to some government post ; I remember resenting even this slender evidence of outside interference . |
| 23 | At the London talks the Ethiopian government delegation was headed by Tesfaye Dinka . |
| 24 | Deputy Prime Minister Ashagre Yigletu , the Ethiopian government delegate , had on the eve of negotiations denied press reports that his government was prepared to offer Eritrea federal status to be followed by a referendum on independence . |
| 25 | The judicial and administrative functions left to the commune were somewhat broader , and in place of the pomeshchik stood a lowly government official . |
| 26 | Goldstar 's new wafer fabrication facility being developed in South Korea will probably cost more than $2 billion before it is opened in 1996 and is dependent on generous government support ( Hayashi , 1989 ) . |
| 27 | Report co-author Ellen Malos said : ‘ Social workers need to be aware of the gap between the law and the more generous government guidance on the law . ’ |
| 28 | Travers 's The Politics of Local Government Finance ( see n. 35 in chapter 2 ) and Loughlin 's Local Government in the Modern State ( see n. 4 in this chapter ) explain the development of the central/local government conflict discussed in this chapter . |
| 29 | For example , there is the central/local government relationship whereby central government , as grantor , passes legislation that delegates the responsibility and provides the funding for the provision of various services to local authorities . |
| 30 | Few things are consistent in the social services : each service tends to be financed differently ; the statutory basis , the context of the central/local government relationship and distribution of control , and the underlying social principles all tend to vary from service to service . |