Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] the government " in BNC.
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| 1 | This will involve tone as much as doctrine , but he would be as ill-advised to go on about the Government 's intention of building a classless society , which it ca n't build anyway , as to adopt the easy belief that the climate of opinion can be left to look after itself while ministers get on with the practical business of government . |
| 2 | With just two months of the year to go , the chances of coming in below the Government 's current target of £37 billion must now be good , though City experts pointed out last night that changes in VAT regulation may have brought payments forward from February and March to December and January . |
| 3 | The stepping down of the government followed resignation calls from all five of East Germany 's minor political parties , and from a deputy minister of culture . |
| 4 | Arthur Scargill , president of the National Union of Mineworkers , has called on other trade unionists to take action today to defend the coal industry , which is being run down despite the Government 's rescue package reprieving 12 of the original 31 pits earmarked for closure . |
| 5 | In the original DES document in which the proposals for the schools were outlined the overall aim was said to fit in with the Government 's aims set out in their document Better schools , ‘ to improve standards ’ being the key phrase . |
| 6 | Yet this writer 's abiding impression of the eighties is that management along with the government did not know when to stop . |
| 7 | Such a programme received the support of the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) and this , along with the government 's decision to begin repayments on its foreign debt [ see pp. 37772-73 ] , restored the country 's standing in international financial circles . |
| 8 | She says that they should contribute , along with the government . |
| 9 | So will you stand down from the government after the elections ? |
| 10 | It 's expenditure out and then income in from the Government . |
| 11 | Lower down in the government were such potential agents of ‘ Thatcherism ’ as David Howell and ( more doubtfully ) Nigel Lawson . |
| 12 | An instruction from the minister is the final word within a department , an excerpt from the Cabinet minutes conveying the decision of a committee of the Cabinet or of the full Cabinet outranks all other orders and is the source of direction for all the policy decisions taken lower down in the government . |
| 13 | ‘ We are being asked to ensure patients get certain benefits , but surely this is down to the Government , ’ said Mr Richardson . |
| 14 | ‘ We are being asked to ensure patients get certain benefits , but surely this is down to the Government , ’ said Mr Richardson . |
| 15 | The only thing left to do was to get him in to the government hospital seventeen miles away , so we set out across the rice fields and village tracks , with the patient in a bullock cart . |
| 16 | It said , if Labour get in to the government today , will the last person who leaves Britain please put the light out . |
| 17 | However , as the reality of the economic situation presses in on the government so it is inevitable that more sensible and pragmatic policies are adopted 2 or 3 years into office . |
| 18 | Second , the Algerian negotiations between ETA and the Spanish government broke down over the government 's unwillingness to accept in principle the Basques ' right of self-determination . |
| 19 | Your council can also choose to extend these periods of time or set new classes of property other than the one laid down by the Government . |
| 20 | According to the ADC , in the cases quoted by councils the properties by and large fulfilled all the principal criteria set down by the Government for a property suitable for occupation by older people , ie that it was let to persons over pensionable age ; access was relatively easy ; the accommodation was on level ground ; the dwelling had no more than two bedrooms ; the heating arrangements were adequate ; the property was reasonably conveniently located . |
| 21 | But the five-figure sum paid for No 34 Smith Square , Westminster , will not reduce customers ' water bills under privatisation rules laid down by the Government itself . |
| 22 | A similar amendment had been introduced in the Commons and quickly voted down by the government . |
| 23 | The selection criteria of children is laid down by the government department appropriate to education and health . |
| 24 | Millions of mothers have been shamefully let down by the government which , 13 years ago under Margaret Thatcher , promised a nursery place for every child who wanted one . |
| 25 | In Virginia , dependence on a one-crop export trade led to trouble : the price of tobacco continued to fall after Charles 's restoration , and thus was the main reason for Bacon 's rebellion in 1675 , which was put down by the government of the colony before royal troops arrived from England . |
| 26 | The number of years over which loans could be repaid was a matter for each individual authority , subject to maxima laid down by the Government for given categories of assets . |
| 27 | There is not only a form of filtering within homes of the rooms offered to those on income support , but homes sometimes put up a bar against those whose only contribution is up to the ceiling laid down by the Government . |
| 28 | They said that difficulty had been created because of the uncertainty of poll tax funding and of the regime laid down by the Government . |
| 29 | The Bill is bound to be extensively amended before it reaches the statute book — at the time of writing 16 , amendments have been put down by the Government and 25 of them are of major importance — but it is believed that few if any of these amendments will affect settlements under which there is subsisting an interest in possession . |
| 30 | He declined to postpone his visit to Argentina , expressing confidence that a military rebellion which had begun there on Dec. 3 [ see p. 37913 ] would be put down by the government of President Carlos Saúl Menem , whom he thanked for sending two Argentinian frigates to the Gulf . |