Example sentences of "[conj] [subord] [art] government " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If this property boom suddenly collapses , or if the government decides to jack up the bank rate to curb consumer spending , then you might find your loans withdrawn , in which case you 'd have a serious cash-flow problem on your hands . ’ |
| 2 | What actually happens in 2002 depends on whether both parties are prepared to extend the loan agreement , although the Baron tells us that he considers this unlikely or whether the government can afford to buy any of the pictures . |
| 3 | When the parties are evenly balanced in the Commons or when the Government has to depend for support upon minority parties , the Prime Minister may well let it be understood that he will not resign or call an election on an adverse vote in the Commons except on an explicit issue of confidence . |
| 4 | In retrospect , it is hardly surprising that although the government of the day duly accepted its general strategy for expansion , it rejected the university model as the main basis of that expansion . |
| 5 | William Waldegrave , the Health Secretary , announced on Feb. 17 that although the government had never accepted the argument for a general scheme of " no-fault " compensation for medical accidents , it had now agreed , at a cost of £12,000,000 , to extend compensation to the estimated 70-80 people who had been infected with the AIDS virus HIV as a result of National Health Service blood transfusions or tissue transfers in the UK . |
| 6 | It follows that if a government should wish to keep unemployment below the NUP , it must keep on increasing the rate of growth of the money supply and will have to tolerate an ever-increasing rate of inflation . |
| 7 | It is pointed out , for example , that if a government , having lost the confidence of the House , attempted to continue in power in breach of that convention , it would ultimately be forced to act illegally as Parliament would not grant it supply . |
| 8 | It is felt that if the Government did lift the veto , it would be obliged to allow any company to bid for Jaguar . |
| 9 | ‘ I do n't argue the pros and cons of public or private investment per se , but in view of the problems that have arisen it seems to me that if the Government has talked up the price by making rather loud commitments to potential voters , perhaps the Government should spend some of our money overcoming those problems , ’ he said . |
| 10 | The CPRS paper argued that if the Government were serious about reducing public expenditure , the time had come to consider some radical solutions . |
| 11 | The Government will cause that because it has no mandate so it follows that if the Government has no mandate you must resist its attempts to exercise one . ’ |
| 12 | However , Lord Redesdale thought that if the Government ever wanted the larger site , ‘ the truest economy would be to purchase at once the ground about Charles Street . |
| 13 | Meanwhile a leading advocate of stockpiling told New Scientist that if the government decides to go ahead , it should keep the news to itself . |
| 14 | Proponents argue that if the government keeps inflation to 2% or so , 8% debt is too expensive . |
| 15 | As a patient , I do believe that if the government , the media , and the medical profession combined to produce a national effort then the ignorance , the indifference and the arrogance could be wiped out . |
| 16 | Behind this medical pressure lay the thinly veiled threat that if the government refused to acknowledge its responsibilities towards the armies of the Empire , then the result would be destruction . |
| 17 | He said that if the Government insisted on maintaining this levy for the year , it should raise the threshold to at least £245 per week , the weekly average industrial earnings . |
| 18 | Does the Under-Secretary understand that if the Government had not embarked on the wholly cynical and two-faced policy of enticing schools with surplus places to opt out , the children at Stratford school would not now face chaos ? |
| 19 | My plea is that if the Government want to maintain its environmental quality and ensure that people work it they will consider including the High Weald as an ESA . |
| 20 | I assure her that if the Government had thought that changes were called for , we would have made them . |
| 21 | Before my hon. Friend concludes what some people might describe as the Linlithgow questions , may I point out that there are indeed many in COSLA who would still argue , even at this late stage in our discussions on the Bill — very rushed discussions indeed — that if the Government are determined to take the colleges out of local government , there is still an important role for COSLA . |
| 22 | He later remarked that if the government was to fulfil its role it should not be affiliated to any party , and it therefore followed that the Premier should not belong to any party either . |
| 23 | The unilateral ceasefire statement , made through the International Committee of the Red Cross , said that if the government " reciprocates positively " then the LTTE would enter into peace talks . |
| 24 | Commentators warned that if the government 's absorbtion planning was inadequate or incorrect , then the country inevitably faced the prospect of spiralling inflation , high unemployment and housing shortages . |
| 25 | As reported in the local press on July 18 , Fajgembaum had suggested ( i ) that if the government wished to obtain a $2,000 million extended IMF loan it should eliminate a constitutional law guaranteeing individual states a share of federal tax income ; and ( ii ) that inflation could only be sharply reduced if the federal deficit were reduced . |
| 26 | This suggests that if the Government wanted to equip all schools with a CD-ROM workstation , it would need to spend over £300 million — an unlikely prospect at anytime but more especially in the ‘ value for money ’ 1990s . |
| 27 | Greenpeace executive director Lord Melchett said that if the government gave the go-ahead without calling a public inquiry , Greenpeace would return to the courts to seek a second judicial review " with our right to do so already established " . |
| 28 | Surely by that time it had become clear that if the Government plans for Local Management were ill-conceived , that the plans for Local Management were ill-conceived and had not been properly thought out . |
| 29 | And Chief Constable David Graham has warned that if the Government does not provide extra money , drastic steps will have to be taken . |
| 30 | Its spokesman , Rory Mair , who is also chief executive of Ross and Cromarty District Council , said that if the Government wished to retain any credibility over the matter it had no option but to accept the logical consequences of the select committee report and enter discussions with the local authorities on compensation . |