Example sentences of "government [be] [verb] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Feb. 1 the Greek and Turkish Prime Ministers , respectively Konstantinos Mitsotakis and Suleyman Demirel , jointly issued a seven-point communiqué during the World Economic Forum in Davos , Switzerland [ see p. 38795 ] ; it noted that the two governments were planning to conclude an accord of friendship and co-operation later in the year and that they were working together towards a negotiated settlement of the Cyprus issue under UN auspices . |
| 2 | If the federal government were allowed to levy an income tax , there would always be a risk that it would move towards introducing some degree of progression in the tax structure ; and this would automatically cause a large redistribution of resources between the richer and poorer republics and provinces . |
| 3 | The proponents of the APU insisted that government is bound to maintain an interest in the quality of education in order to determine whether resources are being rationally deployed and whether the schools are serving the changing needs of pupils and of society . |
| 4 | Second , as with the health care sector , the government is attempting to develop a market for social care by separating the responsibility for those who purchase care and those who provide care . |
| 5 | I met the key officials from the Department of the Environment earlier this week and who told me that the Government is preparing to circulate a consultation paper on the National Sustainability Plan in mid June . |
| 6 | The UK government is preparing to make a decision on the privatisation of its internal speech telephony network , the Government Telecommunications Network ( CI No 2,133 ) . |
| 7 | The Netherlands government is planning to introduce a toll system on the nation 's roads as part of an effort to reduce traffic congestion . |
| 8 | The government is expected to take a decision on whether the plant will be allowed to open within a month or two of the ending of the latest round of public consultations on 4 October . |
| 9 | On Nov. 5 , two days before the government was scheduled to face a vote of confidence in the Lok Sabha ( lower house of parliament ) , the Janata Dal split into two factions . |
| 10 | Another scholar claims that since the government was trying to create a class of peasant smallholders , it had to safeguard the peasant 's person , his property and his entrepreneurial activity ; " Securing these conditions without an apparatus of justice was impossible " . |
| 11 | If peasants could get out of hand when the government was trying to raise a militia , it was not unreasonable to suppose that they would run amok on learning what the government meant by freedom . |
| 12 | Commenting on the new economic legislation , the Finance Minister , Vaclav Klaus , said that its main thrust was to revitalize small and medium-size state-owned companies through improved management and new investment ; furthermore , the government was aiming to establish a climate favouring private enterprise , but around one-third of the economy would remain under state control for the time being . |
| 13 | There was speculation in December that the government was contemplating re-opening a dialogue with the Basque armed movement ETA after the Interior Ministry released to the press transcripts of two ETA prisoners ' conversations in which they condemned the use of violence . |
| 14 | Reports confirmed by members of a team of UK trade experts led by the UK Secretary of State for Trade and Industry , Peter Lilley , said that the government was planning to raise a series of loans in different countries to help finance reconstruction plans . |
| 15 | Because of the complexity of the balance of forces represented in the new parliament , the formation of a government was expected to take a number of weeks . |
| 16 | In one notable Supreme Court decision , the government was allowed to bar a merger of two Los Angeles supermarket chains whose combined market share was only 7.5% . |