Example sentences of "of [art] [adj] government ['s] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly , at the annual conference of the nationalist ( largely Catholic ) Social Democratic and Labour Party in Londonderry on Nov. 18 , John Hume , the party leader , suggested that the timing of the Irish government 's participation in any talks should be decided by the two governments rather than by the parties in the North . |
| 2 | His judgement regarding the timing of the Irish government 's involvement would , he said , be governed by the fact that all three sets of discussions would get under way within weeks of each other . |
| 3 | Delegates including Western human rights activists and diplomats attended a human rights conference in Tehran on Sept. 9-12 , which was described by some commentators as an indication of the Iranian government 's desire to end its international isolation . |
| 4 | The proposed investment by PepsiCo Inc. in a bottling plant in the country was seen as a test of the new government 's commitment to encouraging foreign investment . |
| 5 | The ‘ central element ’ of the new government 's policy was to be the creation of a national human rights commission . |
| 6 | Back home , the massed ranks of the Federal government 's press officers had been deployed to exploit the triumph of Goldenrod and the supposed deterrent value of President Reagan 's ‘ They-can-run-but-they-can't-hide ’ anti-terrorist programme . |
| 7 | A correspondent of the Federal Government 's News Agency of Nigeria ( NAN ) reported that the Benin flag had been seen flying at places within Nigeria and beyond the recognised border . |
| 8 | Rajasthan 's mining department earns around £1.1 million per year from the licenses , which fly in the face of the provisions of the federal government 's Forest Conservation Act . |
| 9 | Details of the former government 's involvement with terrorist organizations came to light in June 1990 . |
| 10 | As for your acceptance of the Spanish government 's line that ETA is planning some sort of violence during the Olympics , the discovered documents do not prove anything . |
| 11 | Lopo Fortunato Ferreira Do Nascimento , hitherto Provincial Commissioner for Huíla and a former Prime Minister , was appointed head of the Angolan government 's negotiating team in mid-November . |
| 12 | I see it as part of the present government 's determination to reduce the power of Local Government , and centralise power and financial control at Westminster . |
| 13 | Is not the success story of the present Government 's policy the fact that they have managed to turn British Steel into a profit-making industry ? |
| 14 | Once again , traditional and Project 2000 nursing students will be split because of the present government 's contempt for nursing students . |
| 15 | As that chapter points out , the underlying principles of the Labour government 's approach in the late 1970s — Partnership between central and local government , and consensus and cooperation — became much less fashionable in the following decade . |
| 16 | Did , one wonders , did Mr Evans really believe that , having observed the movement 's dismissive rejection of the Labour Government 's plea for moderation in the general interest , the electorate would return the Labour Party , the vehicle for trade unions ' political aspirations , to office ? |
| 17 | There is evidence that for much of the Labour government 's period in office between 1974 and 1979 , the older urban cores were to receive greater support than other areas of the country ( Jackman and Sellars , 1977 ) . |
| 18 | However , the level of both permissible earnings and of increments on deferment was too low to provide a significant disincentive to retirement — an indication of the Labour government 's ambivalence on the issue . |
| 19 | The austerity package included most significantly ( i ) a plan to reduce state employment by 29,000 by 1993 through the freezing of federal government hiring and the major reorganization of the Agricultural Ministry ; ( ii ) a freeze on new public works until February 1994 , which marked the end of the current government 's term of office ; ( iii ) cuts of US$373,000,000 in the operating and personnel costs of the state oil company , Petróleos de Venezuela , SA ( PDVSA ) ; ( iv ) no new investment projects by Petroquímica de Venezuela , SA ( Pequivén ) , PDVSA 's subsidiary petrochemical company , and the sale of its shares on world markets to finance its current US$7,600 million investment programme ; ( v ) a ban on the purchase of new military equipment ; and ( vi ) the privatization of Alcasa , a government aluminium producer , and of sections of Siderúrgica del Orinoco , CA ( Sidor ) , the state steel producer . |
| 20 | It will however , be removed at the end of the current government 's term of office in 1994 . |
| 21 | German officials reported on Jan. 29 that a German freighter , the Godewind , bound from Szczecin in Poland for Syria , had been found to be carrying 16 Czechoslovak-made T-72 tanks for the Syrian armed forces , apparently in contravention of the Czechoslovak government 's promise to end such transactions . |
| 22 | Lebanese regular troops searched for concealed weapons and tore down militia posters and slogans in Beirut as part of the Karami government 's demilitarization policy . |
| 23 | Even more drastic intervention was to take place in China ; its roots went back to the control of the Chinese government 's revenue by foreign supervision of the Customs from 1858 onwards . |
| 24 | In 1995 , one in 3 qualified youing people will go to University ; that is the measure of the this Government 's commitment to higher education . |
| 25 | Meanwhile the manufacturing sector , principally textiles , which was suffering from a severe shortage of labour , was expected to take advantage of the Madagascan government 's decision to offer incentives to foreign investors . |
| 26 | Within weeks of its return to power the duplicity of the National Government 's support for sanctions became embarrassingly obvious . |
| 27 | By the mid-1930s it was past its peak , but it played a prominent part in the agitation which led to the suspension of the National Government 's unemployment assistance board scheme early in 1935 . |
| 28 | Day nursery provision by local authorities was strictly limited in the 1930s and charged for , as a result of the cuts in local spending introduced as part of the National government 's economy drive , but when the Second World War came and women were to be mobilised in large numbers for the war effort , the government gave local authorities a 100-per-cent grant to cover the costs of day nurseries , merely charging parents for the cost of food served to the children . |
| 29 | They , they are entitled , if they elect to do so , to continue to be members of the local government 's evaluation schemes , so they are eligible and have applied for membership on it . |
| 30 | While Computer 2000 AG fumes over the potential implications of the Polish government 's decision to waive duty on the imports of local assemblers ( CI No 2,140 ) , indications are emerging that the company 's six-month-old operation in Hungary is beginning to perform after a troubled start . |