Example sentences of "government [vb -s] [adv] [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore , legislation of the Thatcher government has increasingly restricted the operation of the closed shop . |
| 2 | Claims that the Conservative government has successfully protected the countryside by , among other things , more than doubling the amount of approved Green Belt since 1979 . |
| 3 | Few TVs now use this frequency but the government has yet to announce the end of 405-line TV . |
| 4 | The government has belatedly recognised the danger to health of smoking and of passive smoking , but the health menace created by cars is far worse . |
| 5 | The decision to order a reassesment comes after claims that the Greek government has vastly overestimated the amount of water that can be safely diverted . |
| 6 | Since 1979 the Government has vastly increased the resources available to the NHS . |
| 7 | The recent shift from bureaucratic to contractual imperatives within government has also weakened the importance of precedent . |
| 8 | The government has also extended the role of the rent officer who is now responsible for setting the maximum market rent in the area for which she or he is responsible , and any local authority paying housing benefit above the limits set will receive no subsidy from central government for the excess . |
| 9 | The government has also announced the setting up of a special commission to coordinate the activities of Russian ministries and organizations in protecting the ozone layer . |
| 10 | The Government has also increased the manpower in the prison service . |
| 11 | The government has also drafted a set of measures to restrain the growth of individual cash incomes so as to reduce demand for goods . |
| 12 | The Conservative government has also used the policy of privatization to reduce the size of public expenditure ( Treasury 1982 ) . |
| 13 | The Australian government has just ordered a tranche of buses , and a further 900 could follow . |
| 14 | In reality therefore , strong government has simply enabled a series of " minority " governments to push their policies through the Commons . |
| 15 | Brown claims that Government has not faced the failures of the present Labour 's ‘ quack ’ cures will damage patient — Ridley Queen 's speech debate . |
| 16 | The commission is effectively saying the Government has not followed the UN Convention for Refugees , under which anyone with a well-founded fear of persecution should be granted asylum . |
| 17 | The British Government has not signed the Charter . |
| 18 | If the UK government has not signed the Agreement on Social Policy by the time it comes into force , it will be possible for the Commission to present a revised proposal including those mentioned above , which could then be adopted by a qualified majority of the eleven signatory states [ see page 34 ] . |
| 19 | The trouble is that having er agreed to a er more flexible approach to the size of the police authority , the Government has not taken the opportunity despite many effective speeches from the Conservative benches at second reading to er ret to return to the tripartite system of policing in this country which was er the e the essential element of the nineteen sixty four Act which is now in effect being replaced . |
| 20 | While the city administration of New York Mayor David Dinkins has viewed museums and performing arts funding as an opportunity to promote cultural diversity , the city 's government has largely ignored the arts as a sector for economic development . |
| 21 | When Simon pressed and won his claim for an assistant inspector to supervise the national vaccination scheme in 1871 , the current permanent secretary , Ralph Lingen , issued a general warning in the accompanying minute : ‘ I do not know who is to check the assertion of experts when the government has once undertaken a class of duties which none but such persons understand . ’ |
| 22 | The Government has seriously miscalculated the effect of privatisation on through rail fares and the national timetable , according to a report produced by ‘ Platform ’ an 80-member organisation set up to represent users ' needs . |
| 23 | The government has long favoured a system of loans , but recognising that the complete replacement of grants by loans would arouse considerable opposition , they are introducing a mixed system . |
| 24 | The Government has recently accepted a recommendation by the British Association of Accident and Emergency Medicine for a doubling in the number of trained consultants , currently 216 , but it will take 10 years before they are all in place . |
| 25 | Partly for these reasons , and partly due to pressure from western organisations like Compassion in World Farming , the Indian government has recently banned the slaughter of frogs for this purpose . |
| 26 | The German government has never spent a lot of money on culture , and after reunification it cut the social , not the cultural , budget which is absurdly low anyhow . |
| 27 | Interestingly enough in this connection , the Turkish government has suddenly permitted the use of Kurdish language , thereby reversing its decades-long refusal to recognise the existence of its own 11m-strong Kurdish minority . |
| 28 | The Dutch government has now asked the Arts Council to allocate funds and the 300 or so galleries are now grouped into two categories . |
| 29 | In a nice piece of chicanery , designed to keep everyone happy , the Government has now scheduled the site of Shakespeare 's Rose Theatre . |
| 30 | The government has now accepted the arguments , but it has failed to come up with effective solutions " . |