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

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1 Not only does this result in uncertainty about the future of projects funded through Making Belfast Work but it also creates inter-departmental friction and runs counter to the findings of the government scrutiny report of funding of voluntary agencies , which said funding should be tied to departmental objectives .
2 We can see that the Government law and order policy has been irrelevant to all crime , including upper-world crime , and indeed that its social and economic policy has caused the crime rate to rise .
3 Last night Mr Smith wrote to Mr Major urging him to publish through the Commons library the legal advice given by the Government law officers on Labour 's controversial clause 27 , with the apparently contradictory legal advice given to the Foreign Office .
4 As the government minister calls their names , pride and shyness compete for mastery of their faces .
5 ‘ In that case , you 'll remember the government minister , Alan Dysart , when he was a student here . ’
6 Buckinghamshire 's Education Chairman now wants an urgent meeting with the Government Minister responsible .
7 There was recognition today from the government minister responsible for prisons .
8 ‘ The second scandal will be the liquidators becoming rich on the victims ’ money while the Government stand by and watch …
9 There is complete agreement on the commitment of the Council of Europe to dealing with the issue , and I repeat that it would be interesting to hear just where the Government stand .
10 If that commitment is not made , the Government stand condemned of having betrayed a whole generation of the poorest people in our society by taking away their only means of escaping from poverty , access to education opportunity .
11 It worked in close co-ordination with the government bureaucracy and with the soviets .
12 No secret was made of the fact that the government bureaucracy was guided in everything it did by the CPSU bureaucracy , the Secretariat : ‘ The CPSU , and particularly its full time staff , monopolizes the processes of generating and controlling political power in the USSR , transmitting its binding decisions to elites in state and public organizations through its territorial party committees and primary organizations ’ ( Barghoorn and Remington , 1986 , p. 305 ) .
13 With their own vested interests taking precedence over everything else , they resorted to the tactics of terror , intimidation and victimisation against those workers suspected of having labour or trade union sympathies , and with their considerable economic clout they simply bought the opinions of the government bureaucracy .
14 Apart from the significance of the labour shortage , the researchers at CREES think that a study of labour policy-making will contribute to our knowledge of how policy is formed in the USSR , how priorities are determined , by whom , and how the various interest groups ( the Communist Party , the government bureaucracy , the economic ministries , factory managers and workers themselves ) view labour problems and the solutions proposed to alleviate them .
15 Brigadier-General Arturo Enrile , the government negotiator , said the mutineers had initially demanded Mrs Aquino 's resignation , but eventually ‘ reason prevailed over whatever political or ideoligical convictions they had . ’
16 Brigadier-General Arturo Enrile , the government negotiator , said the mutineers had initially demanded Mrs Aquino 's resignation , but eventually ‘ reason prevailed over whatever political or ideoligical convictions they had . ’
17 While the government negotiator Fanus Schoeman insists that the ANC has agreed to share power because a government of national unity is power-sharing , the ANC leader Nelson Mandela said on Saturday that an interim government of national unity was not power-sharing and that the body would include all parties who have won a certain proportion of seats in a constituent assembly .
18 This had not prevented the government signing orders for the extradition of two cartel members on Sept. 11 .
19 The city of Jalalabad banned unauthorized firearms from its streets on Sept. 15 , extending to the provinces the government clean-up being enforced in Kabul .
20 Widespread student unrest is followed by an allegedly fraudulent election victory for the Government candidate .
21 The government candidate , Ong Tee Kiat ( MCA ) , won a federal by-election in eastern Kuala Lumpur on Jan. 29 , 1989 .
22 ‘ If there is chaos , the process of renewal can not be continued , ’ Mr Wolfgang Meyer , the government spokesman , said .
23 On all sides , both in the government service directly and in its associated echelons of closed institutions , corporations , committees , and ‘ quangos ’ , there had been evidence of a loss of national confidence .
24 The partial reaction against it in the Tory 1950s — ‘ setting the people free ’ — did not lead to the contraction of the government service .
25 These feature such triumphs of design in the Government service as Richmond House , workplace of K.Clarke , the ambulance crews ' friend .
26 Those who are nominated from outside the government service are a predictable mixture of retired headmistresses , regional general managers and council clerks .
27 The large mining conglomerate responding to the survey wrote that none of its sectors made appointments using headhunters frequently ; but , on the other hand , the government service organisation questioned spoke of particular usage of search in finance , marketing and information technology .
28 The government service organisation quoted a narrower range of £30 000 to £40 000 and the wines and spirits company £35 000 to £50 000 .
29 The government service organisation questioned would not comment on the quality of the headhunting service it had received but , of eleven firms it cited , mentioned only one top international consultancy , Spencer Stuart .
30 The mining conglomerate , the government service organisation , the wines and spirits company and the industrial investment group simply answered ‘ No ’ when asked if they had any poaching-prevention plans .
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