Example sentences of "[vb -s] [vb pp] the government " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is the fear of frightening off investors that has stopped the government investing in water quality . |
| 2 | A conference of northern local authorities was held soon after the January 1986 announcement of the Tunnel project in order to consider its likely impact on the region , and the North of England Regional Consortium has lobbied the government ever since for improved transport links . |
| 3 | Although he says that he intends to keep an open mind , Montagnier has criticized the government in the past for not supporting more research outside the mainstream and for not paying more attention to Africa . |
| 4 | It has criticized the government for not stressing the responsibilities of scientists in its draft safety guidelines on working with genetically modified organisms . |
| 5 | A Friends of the Earth spokesman said : " Mr Justice Hutchison has given the government extremely wide powers to take our best open spaces and give any land they like in exchange . |
| 6 | The Labour Party has attacked the government for restricting the use of new , more efficient forms of power generation " in order to meet the demands of their City advisers to boost short-term profitability of the regional electricity companies " . |
| 7 | g Attack on homes record d PETER Bergg , the Liberal Democrat candidate for Darlington , has attacked the Government 's record on homelessness . |
| 8 | The money has come the Government 's waiting list initiative . |
| 9 | The company has approached the Government with a plan to take over Network SouthEast services , including branch and suburban routes , in a wide arc between London and the south coast towns of Eastbourne , Brighton , Portsmouth and Weymouth . |
| 10 | Accelerating technological development has pushed the government of every country off-balance in the past decade . |
| 11 | That is yet more Tory doublespeak for a decade that has seen the Government inspire a decline in coal production from 120 million tonnes per annum to 91 million tonnes ; for a decline in employment from 223,000 jobs to 74,000 jobs and for the closure of more than two thirds of our collieries . |
| 12 | Home ownership in America is falling for the first time since the Depression , just as the savings-and-loan collapse has made the government the largest single owner of property after foreclosing on bankrupt thrifts . |
| 13 | Yet the handling of the report has made the government look fumbling and unprepared . |
| 14 | Margaret Ewing MP , the Scottish National Party 's parliamentary leader , in a letter to Lord Sanderson , has accused the Government of ‘ massive complacency ’ towards the fishing industry . |
| 15 | assumptions " false " A report commissioned by the Royal Society for Nature Conservation has accused the government of basing its transport policies on a range of false assumptions about journey times , traffic densities and the effect of new roads . |
| 16 | Dr Mikulas Huba , head of the Slovak Parliamentary Committee for Nature and Environmental Protection , has accused the government of being prepared to sell off the entire Tatra range to Americans without formal authority . |
| 17 | The Labour Party has accused the government of allowing newly-XXXX privatized water companies to adopt a lax approach to anti-XXXX pollution measures — in contrast to the government 's tough public statements on the matter . |
| 18 | A LABOUR parliamentary candidate has accused the Government of ‘ doctoring ’ hospital waiting lists in the North . |
| 19 | Mr Kirkwood ( Roxburgh & Berwickshire ) has accused the Government of pouring money down the drain after receiving figures from the Treasury on lost revenue . |
| 20 | The National Rivers Authority ( NRA ) has told the government that it believes a single agency for land , air and water is the best way forward for the environment . |
| 21 | The country 's High Court has told the government to justify denying aid to the deportees . |
| 22 | Here Racal is compensating by cultivating paramilitary forces , and has become the Government 's nominated supplier of secure mobile radios to UK police forces . |
| 23 | The British Labour Party has challenged the government 's claims to have met its target for reducing emissions of sulphur dioxide , one of the main contributors to acid rain . |
| 24 | Apart from the argument that there is simply too much government ( eleven state parliaments and governments , a bi-cameral federal parliament and a federal cabinet with 39 ministers , all for a country with less than half the population of Britain ( 26 million ) ) , it seems clear that the policy of bilingualism has rendered the government opaque and bureaucratic . |
| 25 | Market karma had ( as the old joke goes ) just run over the Tory dogma — and the shock has brought the Government to heel . |
| 26 | Even in Cuba , long isolated from its neighbours , a prostrate economy has led the government to reconsider the dominant role of the state . |
| 27 | Pressure from Scottish fishing interests has led the government to abandon for the moment plans to add the basking shark to the protected species list . |
| 28 | Amnesty International has asked the Government on many occasions to lift those measures which place obstacles in the path of asylum seekers attempting to gain access to the refugee-determination process . |
| 29 | To cushion the firm from immediate financial problems , Comsat has asked the government to guarantee that it will continue to buy data for 15 years . |
| 30 | The Institute felt that such a panel would have to have legal powers to enforce standards if necessary , as the UK panel does , and has asked the government to take the appropriate steps . |