Example sentences of "[subord] [prep] government " in BNC.

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1 This was easier in opposition than in government .
2 Yeltsin 's support at the forthcoming Congress , he warned , risked being diminished as a result of a campaign to deprive ministers of their powers as deputies , and he felt that he would be more useful working for Yeltsin at the Congress than in government .
3 It was felt that the main objective of the Tory government has been to discipline the unemployed and to lay the blame for their unemployment on them rather than on government economic policy .
4 Why would you expect the yield on treasury bills normally to be rather lower than on government bonds ?
5 I certainly welcome any statement made by any Israeli politician to the effect that if in government he would put a freeze on the settlement policy .
6 A spokesperson for the Institution of Environmental Health Officers said the institution hoped the decrease was because of Government activity focusing attention on food safety .
7 They had invested in junk in the first place because of government policy , accounting for 7% of bonds outstanding at the end of 1988 .
8 Perhaps the most impressive demonstration of crofting opinion was given by the people of Uig when Lord Leverhulme announced that , because of government policy on land settlement , he was giving up his schemes in Lewis and concentrating his attention on Harris .
9 The squeeze , because of Government economic blunders , could mean cut-backs in the NHS and social security benefits .
10 But because of Government cuts there will be less help available with fewer able to afford care .
11 The first is virtually impossible in the UK because of government legislation , and there are relatively few teachers with a native knowledge of BSL who have not been told in the past that it is an impoverished way of communicating .
12 The Bill has the support from Tory MPs like Andrew Rowe and Roger Sims but because of government opposition , is unlikely to survive a second reading on 2 July .
13 This was partly because of government restrictions on capital spending on distribution to below what engineers in the industry considered desirable .
14 The growth of such radios has been slow throughout Africa because of government control of communication networks .
15 However , this does not take account of the fact that some of the housing stock will be vacant for frictional reasons , or because of government policy , or its unattractiveness , or use as second homes : furthermore , some dwellings may be unfit , lacking amenities or requiring substantial repairs — in England alone two million had at least one of these physical problems in 1981 ( English House Condition Survey , 1982 , p. 3 ) .
16 It is precisely because of Government policy .
17 The CDP 's fear is that the local authorities will be so hard pressed , because of government policy , that they will be unable or unwilling to help in the future .
18 Here it states that because of Government 's responsibility for accounting and the nature of that accounting ‘ it is not valid to seek to apply the SSAPs verbatim to the accounts and statements of the NHS ’ ( para 1.3 , Annexe A , Ch 3 ) .
19 It was only after the failure of the economic system had undermined the free market ethos that unions finally gained legitimacy , if not acceptance , and largely because of government legislation giving workers the right to form unions and engage in collective bargaining .
20 Is the Minister aware that in my constituency , because of Government policy , little house building has taken place ?
21 May we have a pause in the ministerial litany of self-praise and complacency to recognise the reality of the interest rate burden , the impact of stop-go , the abandonment of research and development , the neglect of training and education and the fact that , because of Government policy , the nightmare of bankruptcy and failure is faced daily by those who run small and medium-sized businesses in Wales ?
22 That has come about because of Government policies .
23 For the last three years the number of fires recorded during the Amazon burning season , July to October , has fallen , partly because of government action and partly because the economic slump has affected cattle ranchers and farmers .
24 The nomadic Awa Guajá tribe of Brazil are being condemned to extinction because of government delays in demarcating their land , according to Survival International .
25 So it 's by no means only er , arising from the erm , need to get on with the business of the council , some of the work that we 're facing at the present moment has been forced on us er , through no fault of our own because of Government action .
26 A home for reformed alcoholics may have to close because of Government cuts .
27 The engineering union , the AEEU , says staff have been told that Longwall is now centralising its operation in Lancashire because of Government grants available to companies creating jobs in the North .
28 PLANS to build a controversial new jail could be scrapped because of Government cost cutting , says an MP .
29 HOPES that a plan to build a jail next to a Merseyside hospital could be scrapped because of government spending cuts , have been dashed .
30 TRAINEES on Cleveland County Council schemes could suffer because of Government cutbacks , it was claimed yesterday .
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