Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] government [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The five 1922 executive members — George Gardiner , Sir Rhodes Boyson , Michael Lord , Ivan Lawrence , James Pawsey and John Townend — were attacked for delaying Government business through procedural points . |
| 2 | After criticising Government policy since 1979 , when the Conservatives came to power , Mr Clarke said : ‘ For John Major to claim credit for Hoover jobs staying Scotland — thanks to him opting out of the Social Chapter and keeping wages down — is a disgraceful betrayal of the Scottish workforce . |
| 3 | As this process continues , the scope for further squeezing of the wealth of households through inflation is being reduced , and , so long as the authorities rely on inflation as a method of financing government expenditure , they will be obliged constantly to speed up the rate of inflation in order to achieve the same real effect . |
| 4 | People who claim that a noisy motorway has ruined village life are planning to carry on their campaign , despite accepting government compensation . |
| 5 | In the name of balancing government spending , still heading for a deficit this year , social security and unemployment benefits were cut and eligibility requirements tightened . |
| 6 | We considered the problem of enforcing Government planning guidance . |
| 7 | Last year the party leader and son of the founder , Giorgio La Malfa , pulled the Republicans out of the coalition in protest against the old ways of doing government business . |
| 8 | They had distributed a pamphlet in support of a French language school , intending by their pamphlet to create ‘ controversy , furor and an uproar ’ as a means of precipitating government action . |
| 9 | Instead of controlling Government spending , and keeping the lid on inflation , the Labour Government borrowed more and more — increasing spending by over 12 per cent in just one year ( 1974–5 ) , and presiding over an inflationary spiral the like of which has never been recorded before or since . |
| 10 | But the second proposal seems to contemplate an expanded role for judicial review as a way of controlling government activity ; and increasing the sources of information available to the courts in the way contemplated by the first proposal might so change perceptions of the judicial role that it , too , would lead to an expanded conception of the role of judicial review . |
| 11 | After a month of putting government education ideology into practice , life in her classroom is pretty much what it always was . |
| 12 | The importance of studying government activity is on one hand methodological . |
| 13 | Corporatism in various forms has a very long history : for example , professional groups such as doctors and lawyers have regulated themselves for centuries ; indeed , voluntary self-regulation is a defining characteristic of a profession and has long been used as a way of avoiding government control . |
| 14 | I took over the chair previously occupied by Angus Maude , who since 1979 had carried out the impossible job of overseeing Government information . |
| 15 | In this vein we are seeking a mandate from you to continue after this conference in the task of monitoring government employment and training policies in the area , encouraging open debate on these policies , and publicising our findings . |
| 16 | In the United States , where many fewer industries have ever been state-owned , the shift from public to private mainly took the form of reducing government regulation of activities such as air transport ( ‘ deregulation ’ ) . |
| 17 | The Minister of State for Decentralization , Michael Sata , was dismissed for criticizing government policy . |
| 18 | The Republicans believed in keeping government expenditure as low as possible , and in cutting taxes to provide incentives for investment . |
| 19 | Although it is clear that most of these groups were not representative they were instrumental in directing government funding to projects of limited use to the majority of residents , ‘ neighbourhood stabilisation ’ apart . |
| 20 | The difficulty in cutting government expenditure |
| 21 | In more purely administrative and policy terms , the interests of different state agencies may be in conflict with each other , for example the interest of the treasury ( finance ministry ) and central bank in controlling government expenditure may , and frequently in real states does , conflict with the interests of production ministries such as industry and energy in promoting the development of their sector . |
| 22 | The basic point is that although our focus of attention is legal control of government , a proper understanding of the role of the law in controlling government activity requires attention to be paid to the total picture of public accountability . |
| 23 | This establishment regarded health and education as non-productive sectors , of concern in controlling government spending ( SCF , 1991 ; Disch , 1992 ) . |
| 24 | THE US government is barring a former Harvard Medical school investigator in heart disease from obtaining government research funds for ten years . |
| 25 | The special session announced the creation of working groups to overhaul mass organizations and to strengthen participation in the municipal and provincial people 's power system of government ; and it proposed the National Assembly of People 's Power be upgraded to play a more dynamic role in assessing government performance . |
| 26 | The purpose of this research is to analyse the role that commodity taxes ( VAT and excise duties ) can play both in raising government revenue and in redistributing income towards the poorer sections of society , taking account of the fact that households differ widely in their size and composition . |
| 27 | Laws and institutions primarily provide governments with one ( but not the only ) means for achieving such ends ; their function as tools for controlling government activity is only secondary . |
| 28 | Others have been imprisoned solely for criticising government policy or officials or for writing or shouting anti-government slogans . |
| 29 | After carefully exploring a variety of different theoretical approaches to explaining government growth , the study looked at seven different policy areas — public assistance , elementary and secondary education , higher education , environment , unemployment , libraries and fire protection — and examined who or what was important in the process of governmental growth . |
| 30 | Even allowing for the traditionally light-hearted Italian attitude toward obtaining government money , Italy 's wolves number at best only about 150 , including puppies . |