Example sentences of "the government [verb] [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our system of criminal justice demands that the government seeking to punish an individual produce the evidence by its own independent labours , rather than by the cruel , simple expedient of compelling it from his own mouth . |
| 2 | Those of us who have criticised the Government 's and western nations ' lack of urgency in providing appropriate assistance to the Soviet Union will also welcome the new steps and the energy that is being shown in this area If , as the Prime Minister rightly says , the protection of non-proliferation is the absolute key to world peace , why are the Government seeking to increase the number of nuclear warheads that are carried on Trident , when they have the option of keeping the number the same , at a time when the rest of the world is decreasing them ? |
| 3 | Still , the sums being disbursed have clearly helped many and the Government hopes to extend the lending ceiling in coming years . |
| 4 | The government hopes to pick a winner in May but the selection could be delayed . |
| 5 | For foreign exchange , the government hopes to develop the tourist business and its chief pride , biotechnology . |
| 6 | First , why was the Government conspiring to break the law ? |
| 7 | The government continued to implement the policy of radical economic reform initiated in 1987 . |
| 8 | Despite the process of democratization , the government continued to pursue a number of these dissidents through the courts . |
| 9 | From 1990–1 , however , the government proposes to alter the balance between these methods of finance , more than doubling the tuition fees and correspondingly reducing the direct funding of higher education institutions . |
| 10 | Although the government managed to survive a no confidence vote in the Knesset on Jan. 27 , Prime Minister Itzhak Shamir had made it clear shortly after the departure of Tehiya and Moledet that he favoured holding an early general election ( elections were due to be held before November 1992 ) . |
| 11 | It is all very well for the Government to pretend to mount a campaign against drugs and drug imports , but at the same time they have allowed another Department , the Treasury — Conservative Members do not want to hear — to cut 400 customs officer jobs . |
| 12 | When do the Government expect to meet the target for overseas aid of 0.7 per cent . |
| 13 | Punch regularly indicated the ‘ mildness of magistrates ’ and the ‘ luxurious ’ convenience of a ‘ snug cell in prison ’ which ‘ unless the Government interfere to make the living less luxurious … will be popularly looked upon as one of the most comfortable ways of spending life ’ . |
| 14 | The second factor is how the government intervenes to affect the exchange rate . |
| 15 | So that all sections of the community can have confidence in the security forces , will the Government undertake to make a statement to the House after the conclusion of the Nelson case ? |
| 16 | The government refuses to release a Scotland Yard report on the death , and is instead running its own commission of inquiry . |
| 17 | If the Government refuses to accept the house , then Lord Rosebery must auction the contents . |
| 18 | But the social-security surplus is having the opposite of its intended effect : in helping the government to evade cutting the deficit , it is reducing national savings , and thereby reducing the country 's ability to support future pensioners rather than increasing it . |
| 19 | Ministers may try to make a statement ( they secure this every Thursday with the weekly business statement ) ; the Opposition may seek to have a Private Notice Question ; the Government prefer to have a debate on a Government motion or bill ; the Opposition would like to have an Opposition Day when it opens the debate ; and backbenchers seek to get in with points of order and applications for emergency debates . |
| 20 | By not calling it a ‘ Nuclear Obligation ’ , the government hoped to avoid a charge of totally rigging the market and could be seen to at least throw out a lifeline to the renewables . |
| 21 | The prospect that the primate centre could be closed raised such a storm of protest that the government agreed to delay a decision until after the completion of a report on the centre 's performance by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences . |
| 22 | Peace was restored after the government agreed to abandon the tax increases . |
| 23 | On May 13 the government agreed to sign an accord with Iran providing for the despatch of a 50-strong Iranian team to help put out oil fires in Burgan province . |
| 24 | The Government agreed to address the problem of falling access to justice and they established a review of legal aid eligibility . |
| 25 | The miners returned to work on Feb. 13 , 1989 , after the government agreed to discuss the demands presented by the ( left-wing ) Confederation Democratique du Travail , to which the miners reportedly belonged . |
| 26 | If the government does lose the showdown , it seems likely that John Major will call a confidence vote 24 hours later . |
| 27 | The government does have a choice if it did n't want us to live like this then we would n't have to . |
| 28 | Although his speech to Edinburgh University students will spell out the need for the creation of a level market place which is supported not supplanted , he will also make clear that he believes the Government does have a role in ensuring Scotland prospers and in attracting industry . |
| 29 | Britain 's membership of it has already done the untold harm to the British economy that I described in Chapter 5 ; the quicker the Government decides to abandon the objective of re-entering the ERM and to take back permanent control of the economy the better . |
| 30 | Once created , the State enforces on all a common nationalism , so that in the end the ‘ nation ’ becomes a kind of ideational shadow to the operation of public power ; what the government decides defines the will of the nation . |