Example sentences of "government [vb base] [vb pp] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Government remain committed to the Anglo-Irish Agreement unless and until agreement can be reached on new and more broadly satisfactory arrangements . |
| 2 | from students now that the Government have conceded in the new council tax that students will not pay it . |
| 3 | Cold weather payments , child benefit and the dependency allowances are important matters on which the Government have cheated in the uprating statement . |
| 4 | Is my right hon. Friend aware that the measures introduced yesterday by our right hon. Friend the Chancellor , the harmonious industrial relations restored by the Government and the substantial investment from home and overseas mean that manufacturing in the heart of England is deeply grateful for all that the Government have done in the past 13 years ? |
| 5 | If , with the help of all the civil servants who advise Ministers and who sit under the Gallery and elsewhere , one worked on a policy to create crime , one could not come up with anything better than what the Government have created in the past 12 years . |
| 6 | I honestly believe that this is a a a financial exercise that the government have imposed on the criminal justice system . |
| 7 | The Government have capitulated on the flat rate principle , the property base and on accountability . |
| 8 | The Government have abandoned in the so-called council tax not only the rule that everybody has to pay but a key element of the poll tax — accountability . |
| 9 | The Minister said that the peak age for offending has risen to 18 from 15 , but he chose the end of the two-year period that I would describe as covering the most vulnerable young people on whom the Government have picked in the past 12 years . |
| 10 | Even given the expenditure that the Government have devoted to the public sector , there can not be many Ministers who find themselves in such a favourable position . |
| 11 | This is one issue on which the hon. Gentleman might have commenced his supplementary question by saying that most people in Wales are pleased with the way in which the Government have fought for the British lamb industry as a whole and that Welsh consignments have been fought for , too . |