Example sentences of "government was [adj] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , in November that year , the government was obliged to restore small dependants ' allowances in unemployment benefit as a ‘ temporary measure ’ lasting six months . |
| 2 | Although initially there was considerable opposition in Whitehall to such arrangements ( Heseltine , 1987 , pp. 22–3 ) , the government was anxious to develop similar systems throughout Whitehall . |
| 3 | Before Mr Lawson 's speech the markets had decided that the Government was unwilling to contemplate another increase . |
| 4 | It may also have been that the government was unwilling to lend further strength to the clamour for the reform of the Official Secrets Act ( which has now happened ) that had been mounting for some years . |
| 5 | The report claimed that intervention by the Kuwaiti government was necessary to correct human rights violations which included rape , physical violence , the confiscation of passports and confinement to the employer 's home . |
| 6 | Finally , even if a government was prepared to use positive discrimination measures more vigorously and adopt a policy of staff direction in employment , it will need to make private provision illegal if it is to succeed in equalising the geographical distribution of services . |
| 7 | Mujaheddin sources said that the soldiers were returned on humanitarian grounds ; there was no indication of an exchange of prisoners despite earlier reports that the Kabul government was prepared to exchange 73 mujaheddin prisoners for the two Soviet servicemen . |
| 8 | Therefore , within certain urban cores the government was prepared to offer special arrangements : it was willing to enter into formal arrangements with the then two tiers of local government to devise and to implement urban strategies . |
| 9 | There was some prospect for change in foreign economic relations , however , and West German businesspeople who visited Pyongyang in September said that the North Korean government was eager to attract foreign investment in high technology and might resume debt interest repayments when the Olympic stadium , costing $5,000 million , had been paid for . |
| 10 | In view of these constraints it is perhaps not surprising that the government was slow to propose concrete reform measures . |
| 11 | While dependence on American assistance in 1964 – 65 might seem to have left the British government dangerously exposed to American influence ( or even dictation ) , in practice it is just as reasonable to argue that the Wilson government was able to turn American self-interest to its own advantage . |
| 12 | Table 16–2 shows that the first Thatcher government was able to reduce marginal tax rates substantially , especially for the very rich . |
| 13 | If the Danish Government was able to distribute 300,000 copies of the Maastricht text through newsagents and libraries , who has decided here , or in Brussels , that the British public should not be allowed to find out for themselves during the election what the small print of the treaty contains ? |