Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [art] government " in BNC.

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1 The power of Parliament will be limited where a government has a working majority in the House of Commons .
2 The Education Secretary has been in the region lending his weight to the Conservative campaign , and denying that the Government was to blame for school underfunding .
3 Trade and industry minister Edward Leigh recently wrote to The Northern Echo firmly denying that the Government was responsible for any delay .
4 Surveys suggest that the government has had some success .
5 In a letter to Greenpeace acid rain campaigner Andy Tickle , D. Aspinwall of the Air Quality Division in the Department of the Environment wrote on 20 March 1990 : ‘ You suggest that the Government has changed its plans for implementing the large combustion plants Directive .
6 More recent reviews suggest that the government prohibition of admissions to mental hospitals has , at least partially , succeeded in achieving the development of community services .
7 In a letter this week to the Lord Chancellor , Mark Sheldon , President of the Law Society , says that recent remarks made by Lord Mackay suggest that the Government is considering restricting the individual 's right to choose their own solicitor .
8 THERE have been a number of articles and letters published recently about North-East drift-net fishery for salmon , which suggest that the Government 's proposal to phase out this fishery is unreasonable and that it is based on political expediency under pressure from owners of rod fisheries .
9 I can only assume that , as the matter was extensively discussed earlier , they thought that the issue was dead and that there was no point in discussing it , because the arguments had been so effectively canvassed and dismissed that the Government would not contemplate introducing such an offence .
10 I proposed that the Government should initially retain a 51 per cent stake in the new company .
11 Both in Health and Education , the new Secretaries of State have the advantage that those they have to deal with on the shopfloor , so to speak , will know that the Government 's policies are now here to stay .
12 For if it is not , how can anybody know that the government is still ‘ derived from public opinion ’ , i.e. is still representative ?
13 You may know that the Government has committed itself to producing a National Sustainability Plan by the end of this year , for submission to the United Nations Sustainable Development Commission .
14 However , the hon. Gentleman will know that the Government have gone to great lengths to help the Northern Ireland economy and I am sure that the measures that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland is taking will continue to alleviate the situation in the Province .
15 My hon. Friend will know that the Government have proposed a major new initiative in rail freight by encouraging the private sector to run additional services on British Rail track .
16 The House will know that the Government thought long and hard about their decision to retain the statutory training board .
17 Perhaps my hon. Friend does not know that the Government have just announced that they intend to nationalise the private enterprise operation that I am running , which entails my sending those replies to all Opposition Members — as I have been doing for the past three months — and , this month , to Conservative Members , following an offer made to their Whips some time ago .
18 He promised that the government would fight to keep Finland .
19 He promised that the government would do its utmost to dismantle right-wing paramilitary death squads and insisted that the armed forces must respect human rights because national defence also meant the upholding of the law .
20 Sir Wyn also promised that the Government would provide whatever cash assistance was necessary for action at Llandudno General Hospital , which was badly hit by the floods .
21 Announcing the terms for the December 12 Stock Exchange launch , the water minister , Mr Michael Howard , refused to accept that the Government will face a paper loss of more than £1.3 billion .
22 Announcing the terms for the December 12 Stock Exchange launch , the water minister , Mr Michael Howard , refused to accept that the Government will face a paper loss of more than £1.3 billion on the sell-off .
23 My hon. Friend may like to know that the Government are now studying the Frankovich judgment , which may also have some bearing on speed of implementation in the Community .
24 The right hon. Gentleman may be interested to know that the Government are looking urgently with mortgage lenders at what further measures might be taken to protect those faced with repossession .
25 I sympathise with my hon. Friend the Member for Kilmarnock and Loudoun ( Mr. McKelvey ) but surely he has been a Membeer long enough to know that the Government do not care .
26 It 's expected that the Government will off-load most of its 1.35 billion BT shares in late June or early July .
27 The consultation document contained no firm proposals on the franchising system although , given that 137 out of 167 pages referred to the present BR profit centres , it is reasonable to infer that the Government 's preferred set up would be based on profit centre related franchises .
28 When one adds to that the £40 million or so from the trust , my hon. Friends at least will recognise that the Government can lay claim to spending more money on sport than any party has done for many years .
29 He has obviously forgotten that the Government decided not to introduce a tax on world income in 1989 , following consultation and representations from the Labour party .
30 Secondly , the complaint charged that the government had been ‘ negligent in supervising and controlling an operation utilizing criminals , terrorists and terrorist sympathizers at various locations , including Frankfurt Rhein-Main airport , which circumvented all baggage security controls and which was utilized by a terrorist organization to place the bomb on Flight 103 ’ .
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