Example sentences of "[prep] government [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The threat of greater competition brought about by the trend towards government curtailment of professional monopolies and relaxation of advertising rules means that refusing to contemplate the idea of incorporation could entail a heavy loss of business .
2 Further steps towards government openness as announced by Major included the publication of the composition of Cabinet committees on May 19 .
3 In 1932 a further step towards government intervention in the economy was taken when the Reconstruction Finance Corporation ( RFC ) was established .
4 Mr Murray set about to counteract any ill feeling towards government radio policies by arranging a nation-wide tour of all ‘ trouble spots ’ , and his schedule called for a visit to Moose Jaw during the second week of February , 1936 .
5 In the face of government determination to enforce the February 1911 laws more than eight thousand Aube growers marched through the streets of Bar-sur-Aube carrying on their backs paniers de mannequin ( grape harvesting baskets ) full of tax-forms which they ceremoniously set fire to .
6 In the light of Government inaction , one might reasonably ask again why the Library Association did not then initiate legal action against the News International ban .
7 I know that he feels great distress at what is happening as a result of Government inaction on this matter .
8 Mr Patten , already unpopular with the educational establishment for attacking ‘ trendy ’ teaching methods and publishing exam results for all schools , is having to review hours after the study found nearly half of all primary schools fall short of Government teaching targets .
9 The main heads of government liability are dealt with in Part II .
10 I have scarcely reached ‘ War Damage , Limitations of Government Liability for ’ , when I realize Mrs Tamm is standing in front of me again .
11 That would require three decisions : the restoration of targeting of M4 , the use of government funding to control the quantity of money , and immediate British entry to the exchange rate mechanism of the EMS .
12 The bottom line to private investment remains , as always , the extent and nature of government funding .
13 In public sector schools in the late 1980s , shortages of government funding were bringing pressures to charge fees .
14 ‘ A high level of government funding is the only way that industry can find its way through this maze , ’ he said .
15 ACTION Housing Incorporated is a local charitable housing foundation , founded in 1958 and in receipt of government funding .
16 Moving round the Piazza , the Loggia dei Lanzi has been freed from its casing of scaffolding , the L600 million of government funding having proved sufficient to finish the job .
17 Or if she was aware of him , was she aware of the political turmoil the previous cancellation of a Mapplethorpe show has engendered in the U.S. over the last two years , with the director of the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati indicted for obscenity ( but acquitted ) and the very principle of government funding of contemporary art called into question ?
18 The incumbent is now off in hot pursuit of government funding for the much-enlarged interoperability lab .
19 The incumbent is now off in hot pursuit of government funding for the much-enlarged interoperability lab , see above .
20 L3.8 billion ( £1.7 million ; $3.5 million ) of government funding will be used to keep the city 's principal churches and scuole open , for three years at least , and to install up-to-date alarm and lighting systems .
21 The whole thrust of the article seems designed to justify BR 's corporate performance against a shortfall of government funding , and while you accept and refer to the shocking conditions experienced by passengers , you do so as if this was a problem imposed on BR rather than as a function of its own management performance at operating level .
22 In recent years there has been a major media hype about the supposed increase of government funding of initiatives in West Belfast .
23 Matters may become a little clearer when the results of the efficiency review of government funding of voluntary agencies , begun in 1989 , become available .
24 The service was revived at the beginning of the 1960s by the injection of government funding and was stimulated by honourable mention from two major inquiries .
25 The catastrophic fall in union education mirrored a wider malaise in the movement as a whole , as the assumptions that underlay existing strategies started to crumble , The TUC 's own education programme is a case in point ; it expanded rapidly from 1975 , after an internal review of educational services showed that the average workplace or branch official enjoyed half a day 's education a year , but it did so on the basis of government funding combined with statutory entitlements to day release for workplace representatives .
26 Altogether about 260 people have volunteered for early release under AGN 10/92 , which followed the announcement of the end of Government funding for Fast Reactor R&D .
27 The " Spicer Report " , based upon discussions with some 300,000 Canadians over an eight-month period following the collapse of the Meech Lake Accord , recommended ( i ) the recognition of Quebec as a unique province , but one which had a place within a federal Canada ; ( ii ) an independent review of the official policy of bilingualism ; ( iii ) the fair treatment of native land claims and the institution of self-government for aboriginal peoples ; ( iv ) a reduction of government funding of multiculturalism ; and ( v ) the reformation or abolition of the Senate ( the non-elected upper chamber of the federal legislature ) .
28 It seems likely therefore , because of widespread dissatisfaction within the academic community , that the whole area of Government funding for research in the United Kingdom will require fundamental changes in the way in which research is assessed and administered .
29 The experimental fast breeder nuclear reactor at Dounreay is due to close in March 1994 with the ending of government funding for fast breeder research .
30 Obviously there is a difference between " ultimate potentials " and practical economically viable systems , but considerable progress has been made , despite the low level of government funding ( only £9m for all " renewable " r&d in 1980/81 ) .
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