Example sentences of "[noun sg] be that [art] [adj] government " in BNC.
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| 1 | The irony is that the Labour government has set up and funded handsomely a Royal Commission on Social Policy which will make its report at the end of 1988 . |
| 2 | My contention is that a national government should treat a sum of one Ppound in the same manner that an individual treats an ordinary pound . |
| 3 | The reply from the committee was that the local government board had sanctioned the development , a statement which seems to have silenced the opposition . |
| 4 | ( d ) " The saddest result of the Boer War was that the Liberal government approved a most illiberal constitution for the South Africa Union in settlements of 1906 and 1910 . |
| 5 | His main concern was that the National government had not sufficiently registered the fact that if Spain fell into fascist hands France would then be surrounded by fascist powers — Germany , Italy and Spain . |
| 6 | I I asked the er the minister earlier about this question and I appreciate his difficulties being a home office minister rather than a foreign office minister and I quite understand his reluctance to er stray too far from his departmental portfolio but the reality is that the British government agreed that the European parliament should continue to meet in Strasbourg but we 've heard nothing from the minister as to where the money should come from er in order to make that commitment a reality because I 'm sure that every member opposite would say that the uncertainty about the present boundaries is not the er responsibility of the British government , that it 's a matter for the French government to sort out which boundaries er will be in place in the United Kingdom by June the ninth , the date of the European elections , but the reality is that the British government have gone along with the arrangement for having Strasbourg recognised as a er seat for the European parliament . |
| 7 | I I asked the er the minister earlier about this question and I appreciate his difficulties being a home office minister rather than a foreign office minister and I quite understand his reluctance to er stray too far from his departmental portfolio but the reality is that the British government agreed that the European parliament should continue to meet in Strasbourg but we 've heard nothing from the minister as to where the money should come from er in order to make that commitment a reality because I 'm sure that every member opposite would say that the uncertainty about the present boundaries is not the er responsibility of the British government , that it 's a matter for the French government to sort out which boundaries er will be in place in the United Kingdom by June the ninth , the date of the European elections , but the reality is that the British government have gone along with the arrangement for having Strasbourg recognised as a er seat for the European parliament . |
| 8 | Er but the truth of the matter is that the British government would not . |
| 9 | The short answer is that the French government demanded guarantees from the Prussian government that the candidature would not be renewed in any circumstances , implying that since the government in Berlin was officially involved , only an official denial would satisfactorily end the affair . |
| 10 | The position is that the Canadian Government routinely send their diplomatic bags Should I go on ? — to the Foreign Office for onward transmission |
| 11 | The conclusion of the first section was that a just government can exist even if its subjects are not bound by a general obligation to obey it . |