Example sentences of "government [modal v] [verb] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government may have to offer a subsidy , or tax relief , to cable operators and subscribers willing to invest in the most adaptable system . |
| 2 | For the Liberal Democrats , Mr David Steel said : ‘ The feelings of people at what happened last night really vary from unease to repugnance that a British government should stoop to use a device which we have consistently condemned in others — namely the knock on the door in the middle of the night . ’ |
| 3 | The Government should have made a statement on the way in which the police national computer operates ; it should not have been necessary for me or the National Council for Civil Liberties to prise information from them . |
| 4 | As an employer , government must continue to set an example . |
| 5 | But with all the equipment at GCHQ the Government must have known a lot more than I did about the horrors . |
| 6 | People indeed talked privately about the waste of government money , the lack of respect for public property , and it is possible that government might have regarded a discussion of that issue alone as constructive criticism : Kufrans were not sure . |
| 7 | But that can be granted only to a refugee who is seeking asylum on the ground that the Government might have administered a case improperly and not followed its own rules for processing refugees under a United Nations Convention . |
| 8 | Had Mr Major lost , the Government would have tabled a motion of confidence and invited the Commons to approve it . |
| 9 | On these grounds they would propose to resist the clause proposing abolition , but , in order to enable the House to consider whether there should be a more frequent recommendation for the exercise of the Royal Prerogative , the Government would propose to table a Resolution in the same sort of terms as that included in the conditional recommendations of the Select Committee [ of the House of Commons on Capital Punishment , 1929–30 ] , and that if such a Resolution were passed , the practice governing recommendations for the exercise of the Prerogative would be altered accordingly . |