Example sentences of "government [vb -s] [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the case of matching grants the central government agrees to match a certain proportion of the expenditures of the local authority ; for example , central government may pay x per cent of the total cost of providing a service at the local level . |
| 2 | These new , relatively small , selective colleges are to be set up by private sponsors , with government grants to provide a free education with a technological emphasis for 11–16-year-olds . |
| 3 | In shifting responsibility from government to the people : ‘ The Thatcher government has adopted a novel approach . |
| 4 | The Government has appointed a Royal Commission on Criminal Justice to examine , inter alia , ‘ the effectiveness of the criminal justice system … in securing the conviction of those guilty of criminal offences and the acquittal of those who are innocent . ’ |
| 5 | THE CANADIAN government has made a complete about-face over the regulation of private satellite-TV dishes . |
| 6 | The Conservative government has made a half-hearted attempt to tax company cars — half-hearted because it fears upsetting natural Tory voters . |
| 7 | ‘ It would seem the Chinese government has made a decisive move and decision to put 4 June behind it , ’ a Hong Kong-based human rights activist , John Kamm , said . |
| 8 | In other moves the government has made an important policy switch with a decision to provide direct support for biotechnology research . |
| 9 | The Government has unveiled a multi-million pound contract to build a bypass around an accident blackspot . |
| 10 | Yet if talk of permanent or irreversible changes may be too bold , the Thatcher government has created a new agenda , one which a successor government will find difficult to reverse . |
| 11 | And the government has lost a high court battle over the poll tax with one of the London charge capped councils ; the Court has upheld Lambeth Council 's decision to set the community charge at £521 rather than the £493 figure sought by the government . |
| 12 | Stephenson said that ‘ the government has done a good job in policy development , without burdening business but with sufficient controls ’ . |
| 13 | By the judicious application of support in the areas where it could be most effective , government has done a great deal for the industry . |
| 14 | The Dutch government has begun an ambitious plan to return large areas of farmland to their natural state as forest , wetlands and lakes . |
| 15 | With the recent Fair Employment legislation the government has missed a golden opportunity to address some of the difficulties faced by disabled people in securing employment . |
| 16 | The government has announced a near doubling of the number of cases of AIDS among heterosexuals , and says the disease is growing faster in this group than in any other . |
| 17 | Dicey felt , first , that during the previous 40 years ‘ faith in parliamentary government has suffered an extraordinary decline ’ . |
| 18 | The UK government has placed an official ban on the use of offal in animal feed and petfoods from any cattle at risk from bovine spongiform encephalopathy ( BSE ) . |
| 19 | The dam is to be built on the Bio Bio river , Chile 's largest , and environmentalists fear that it will open the way for a further six dams on the river , as well as damaging the monkey puzzle Araucaria araucana pine forests , which the government has declared a national monument . |
| 20 | The Conservative Government has introduced a nationwide breast cancer screening service and also a computerised call and recall system for cervical cancer screening — the first country in the European Community to do so . |
| 21 | In order to meet this danger , the government has introduced a regulatory framework in some cases . |
| 22 | While the Thatcher government has had a major policy aim of controlling public expenditure and has used the block-grant regime and rate-capping to that end , centrally imposed financial controls not only infringe the rights of elected councillors to determine local spending needs and priorities but also undermine accountability to local ratepayers . |
| 23 | The Government has had a special Cabinet committee looking at ways of reducing unemployment but its recommended package is not due to be announced for a couple of weeks . |
| 24 | Since then , the Government has had a statutory responsibility to increase benefits only in line with prices . |
| 25 | Gavin Mooney and Shelly Farrar of Aberdeen University 's health economics research unit believe the Government has committed a serious error by failing to take costs into account when setting out its aims in the report Scotland 's Health : A challenge to us all . |
| 26 | The Tanzanian government has lifted a 17-year ban on game hunting to allow safari hunting from August 1 to November 3 . |
| 27 | TEN years of Conservative government has produced a poor record on environmental issues , but Mrs Thatcher 's ‘ conversion ’ in the past year has meant she has done more than any other world leader to push the issue to the top of the political , business , and economic agenda , says a Friends of the Earth report . |
| 28 | Since 1985 , the Thatcher government has unleashed a ferocious onslaught on football spectators , unprecedented in the rest of Europe . |
| 29 | So , as part of its deregulation of television , the government has established a new TV watchdog , the Broadcasting Standards Council ( BSC ) , to assume custodianship of the nation 's morals . |
| 30 | The British government has established a small fund for bringing the ‘ know-how of pluralism ’ to Poland : in management , accountancy , banking , local government , tourism and even ( God help us ) journalism . |