Example sentences of "government ['s] [noun sg] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this section , we examine how these forces affect governments ' role in the provision of education . |
| 2 | Delegates expressed the hope that the environmental damage caused during the Gulf War — in particular Iraq 's release of oil slicks and the firing of Kuwaiti oil wells and the UN coalition 's bombing of nuclear , chemical and biological warfare facilities — would focus governments ' attention on the need to deal with the environmental dimension of modern warfare and to outlaw environmentally damaging actions not directly related to war arms . |
| 3 | Following the talks a joint communiqué reiterated both governments ' adherence to the protocol signed in Damascus in August 1987 , and in addition Turkey committed itself to releasing more than the current 500 cubic metres of water a second to Syria . |
| 4 | Although the Vatican City State abolished the death penalty for all offences in 1969 , there has never been an official statement from the Holy See condemning governments ' use of the death penalty . |
| 5 | Within a year there had been a shift in the Government 's attitude towards the Corporation . |
| 6 | Mr. Thomas Graham ( Renfrew , West and Inverclyde ) : The new clause offers Scottish people the opportunity to have at least some confidence in the Government 's attitude to the privatisation of the bus service . |
| 7 | I said that I believed it would now be right to give some indication of the Government 's attitude to the building of a tunnel . |
| 8 | The moves seemed to mark a major change in the government 's attitude to the conflict . |
| 9 | Guided by its recent experience Quit has set as medium term goals adult smoking prevalences of 22% in 1994 and 18% in 1997 compared with the British government 's goal in The Health of the Nation of 20% in 2000 . |
| 10 | It means that those shops are no longer viable and we condemn the Government 's inaction on the reform of the Shops Act 1950 . |
| 11 | However , the government 's spokesman on the Bill in its passage through the House of Lords , Lord Caithness , tried to give assurances that there was virtually no possibility that a local authority nor its librarians were in danger of falling foul of the Act by simply stocking homosexual material as part of the library service to the public . |
| 12 | And opinion polls show the number of voters satisfied with the Government 's management of the country has fallen to its lowest level since November 1990 . |
| 13 | First , there is the utter incompetence of the Government 's management of the economy ; secondly , there are its housing policies , described in The Independent as ’ a disaster waiting to happen ’ . |
| 14 | But Labour leader John Smith , in another onslaught against the Government 's management of the economy , claimed that the overall trade deficit was ‘ dangerously high ’ . |
| 15 | Now , given that the government 's support of the idea of Strasbourg as being a permanent place of meeting for the European parliament . |
| 16 | Madame Speaker , the Government 's position on the substance of the matter remains unchanged ’ … blah , blah , blah . |
| 17 | The government 's position on the structure of higher education was articulated publicly for the first time by Crosland in his famous speech at Woolwich Polytechnic in 1965 , in which he declared the government 's acceptance of the need for a ‘ system based on the twin traditions which have created our present higher institutions ’ . |
| 18 | I think it right … to explain that Government 's position in the light of that advice … |
| 19 | The day was saved by the Government 's willingness for the House to meet , exceptionally , in the mornings until the Committee Stage of the Bill had been completed . |
| 20 | The events which led to this began on 30 June 1925 when the coal owners decided that they would abolish the national minimum wage , cut wages by about 10 per cent in order to compensate for the government 's return to the gold standard with a reflated pound , and to maintain standard profits no matter how low wages fell . |
| 21 | Nigel Lawson , a former chancellor , suggested that the government 's indecision over the poll tax called into question its ability to govern . |
| 22 | With criticism of the government 's handling of the affair mounting , Mitterrand on Feb. 4 called an extraordinary session of parliament . |
| 23 | I commend the Government 's handling of the pay review body and their general approach of marrying this policy , which will lead to higher pay for teachers , with a determined critique of the elements of teachers ' performance which need to be discussed and openly and rigorously criticised . |
| 24 | Opposition parties , which in August had unsuccessfully tabled a motion of no confidence against the government 's handling of the law and order situation [ see p. 39053 ] , criticized the emergency measures as undemocratic . |
| 25 | MPs gathered in the House of Common on Sept. 24 for an emergency debate on the government 's handling of the currency crisis , and voted by 322 to 296 in favour of a motion expressing support for the government 's economic policy . |
| 26 | The government 's handling of the disaster , notably its alleged failure to issue warnings prior to the opening of the sluice-gates of the Mangla Dam to prevent flooding the Indus basin in the south , prompted charges of criminal negligence and incompetence by its political critics and sections of the army . |
| 27 | In order to show how acute the problems were , let us return to the government 's handling of the railway network in 1922 . |
| 28 | I certainly shall not follow the example of the last Labour Government 's handling of the health service . |
| 29 | The crack 1er and 2ème Régiments Étrangers de Parachutistes were staffed and run almost entirely by old hands from Indo-China who felt immensely bitter at the French government 's handling of the war . |
| 30 | When in May 1940 the Commons divided on an issue of confidence in the Chamberlain government 's handling of the war , and the normal government majority was seen to have dropped significantly , Chamberlain decided to resign and to make way for Churchill , a leader more acceptable to the opposition parties . |