Example sentences of "[subord] [art] government ['s] " in BNC.

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1 GM , the world 's largest car maker , is understood to be planning to take an initial 15 per cent shareholding in Jaguar , rising to 29.9 per cent immediately the Government 's golden share in Jaguar expires in January 1991 .
2 The Ministry of Agriculture 's latest published studies show that more than a quarter of pig kidneys sampled in 1985 had residues of sulphadimidine at average levels 11 times higher than the Government 's safety limits .
3 Government suppliers do not have to follow these standards , which are international ones rather than the government 's own .
4 When the motion passed by one vote , no one was more surprised than the government 's opponents .
5 The Philippines ' GDP will probably grow by 1% this year at best , less than the government 's latest ( reduced ) forecast of 3.2% .
6 increase in the number of patients treated compared with last year , which is higher even than the Government 's forecast increase in patient care .
7 There could be no clearer indicator of the indifference and contempt in which the Government hold those on the lowest incomes than the Government 's exclusive concern with our tax proposals , without even a glimmer of a mention of those who will benefit from them .
8 This taxed enterprise profits at a flat rate of 45 per cent ( 10 per cent lower than the government 's original proposal ) , tax revenue being split almost equally between union and republican budgets .
9 Langbaurgh wants to spend £18.6m , £3m higher than the Government 's provisional spending level .
10 COUNCIL tax bills in Darlington are expected to be at least £75 more than the Government 's projections , councillors heard yesterday .
11 Although the Government 's recent decision to pull all atomic reactors from the sell-off programme and scrap the construction of three Pressurised Water Reactors was expected to freeze Britain 's civil nuclear programme for at least five years , BNFL yesterday disclosed that it was looking at ways of diversifying into generating power .
12 The decision to turn it into an independent corporation has been welcomed , although the government 's power to veto members less so .
13 Although the government 's Planning Policy Guidance on retail planning states that large retail developments in the Green Belt or open countryside are inappropriate , critics remain sceptical about its commitment to effective restraint .
14 Although the government 's consultation report on the Adoption Law Review supported gay and lesbian adoption , junior health minister Tim Yeo has consistently opposed it .
15 Minimum competencies testing has not been a feature of the UK experience , although the government 's announcement in 1987 that a national curriculum was to be established , with benchmarks for achievement at ages 7,11 and 14 , appeared at first to have similar implications .
16 Although the Government 's Warnock Report recommended banning surrogacy , many doctors and IVF scientists disagree .
17 New cases of BSE in the UK " where 88,000 animals have died of the disease so far " rose from 675 to 885 a week over the past year , although the government 's chief scientist insists the figure will start to decline by the end of this year .
18 After years of abusing students , minsters are clearly now hoping that nothing washes whiter than a government 's attempt to get re-elected .
19 Simple calculation reveals that so that the optimal policy is a slow increase in the rate of growth of the money supply until the government 's propensity to create inflation is revealed .
20 He told students at Edinburgh University that no changes were planned but allowed himself a get-out clause by stressing that he would not be tied to any position until the Government 's conclusions on the industry had been agreed .
21 The Prime Minister appeared at the end of the broadcast to warn of further turmoil if the Government 's health and trade union reforms were undone .
22 If the Government 's record of managing the public services has been indifferent , the Tories and the Tories alone have acted bravely and imaginatively to achieve better public services by the only credible means — managing resources through private sector standards and disciplines .
23 Questioners also want to know if the government 's acceptance of an amendment to the present Energy Bill — which will force the electricity supply industry to consider combined heat and power schemes ( CHP ) as a statutory duty — heralds a shift in policy .
24 If the government 's proposals on sites are implemented , these tensions will spiral .
25 If the government 's support for the landowning nobility perpetuated its age-old conflict with the peasantry , the direct corollary of its close alliance with industrial employers was confrontation with labour .
26 If the Government 's approach continues unamended , and if there is no major industrial slump affecting the returns from investments , the living standards of pensioners dependent on occupational sources of income and savings are likely to move even further away from those mainly dependent on state benefits , who will get poorer relative both to other pensioners and to the rest of the community .
27 If the government 's record has been unsatisfactory , then some voters may not examine too closely the nature of the alternative devil .
28 But even if the government 's figure of £3.5 billion is accurate it is still only a fraction of what is required : as has been noted , the CBI estimates that £50 billion is needed .
29 If the government 's hands were clean , why did it insist on hiding them behind its back ?
30 If the Government 's White Paper intentions are translated into legislation , the new councils will be created in April 1996 .
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