Example sentences of "was [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] government " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the past a private sector proposal had to demonstrate that funding costs would be less than if it was carried out by the Government . |
| 2 | It has been this policy of screening tenants over the decades before the main sale of council houses was pushed through by the Government that has resulted in the buying of houses largely on the best estates , and has helped to reinforce the emergence of the ghetto in many areas of Britain . |
| 3 | The task of the Prime Minister was unremitting , for he was on duty every minute of the day and night and must know all that was going on in the Government . |
| 4 | A Central Management Committee was set up for the Government legal service and , as senior Government lawyer , it fell to Ware to be chairman of this and to become head of the parallel Legal Career Service . |
| 5 | Just about every fertility clinic in the country was set up with a government grant . |
| 6 | A family planning association was set up by the Government in 1972 , and the Government 's First Five Year Plan proposed the promotion of several different types of birth control . |
| 7 | GILL Rowlands , the ‘ trade union rights Commissioner ’ , whose expensive Warrington office to hear complaints against trade unions was set up by the government five years ago , says 1991-92 was ‘ an encouraging year ’ . |
| 8 | With the beginning of the war , the Emergency Medical Service ( EMS ) was set up by the Government . |
| 9 | The National Council for Vocational Qualifications was set up by the Government . |
| 10 | The Front for the Defence of Malagasy Socialism ( FMSM — an alliance led by Jérôme Marojama Razanabahiny of Vonjy ) , was set up by the government as a counterweight to the new opposition parties . |
| 11 | It was set up by the government to advise it on environmental policy . |
| 12 | NAMAS , specialists in the field of laboratory techniques , was set up by the government to raise and maintain the standards of laboratory work . |
| 13 | After years of industry — and the country — being almost paralysed by strikes and restrictive practices , the country was crying out for a Government that would give a lead . |
| 14 | Worse atrocities had occurred in Scotland , but ‘ the massacre of Glencoe ’ was taken up by the government 's critics , and has remained a convenient stick with which to stir up nationalistic sentiment ever since . |
| 15 | In Virginia , dependence on a one-crop export trade led to trouble : the price of tobacco continued to fall after Charles 's restoration , and thus was the main reason for Bacon 's rebellion in 1675 , which was put down by the government of the colony before royal troops arrived from England . |
| 16 | of that fund was paid in by the Government , but now the Government have taken a holiday . |