Example sentences of "government [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An emergency resolution was passed which urged the government to target criminal justice resources into preventative programmes rather than just extending custody for young offenders . |
| 2 | Launching a report on the changing face of England over the past 50 years , Burton called on the government to target the 150,000 hectares of derelict land in cities before it allows more building in the countryside . |
| 3 | The government deflated sharply in 1964 and unemployment began to rise steeply , reaching 5.4 per cent in 1965 . |
| 4 | The agency says it relied on a government commitment to provide liquidity , but the government reneged . |
| 5 | Since coming to office in late 1990 , the National Party 's standing in the polls had plummeted as the government reneged on its electoral pledges by initiating radical cuts in the country 's welfare state . |
| 6 | The inconsistency of demanding frankness and openness from the African while practising a form of government depending largely on influence wielded behind closed doors seems not to have troubled the British ; they assumed that it was precisely their own qualities of straightforwardness and transparent honesty which would effect the required transformation in the African character . |
| 7 | Jugnauth then announced that he would continue in office , as head of a minority government depending on external support from the MMM . |
| 8 | So long as there is a full right of appeal against a refusal of leave — a right which the present Government sought , at one stage , to abolish — this handicap is acceptable , even though it places public authorities in a more privileged position than the ordinary litigant . |
| 9 | Once doubts about the feasibility of such a system finally caused it to be shelved indefinitely , the government sought other ways of extending parental choice , once it had introduced reforms to school government to increase opportunities for parental involvement at school level ( see Chapter 3 ) . |
| 10 | Nevertheless it must be recognized that most of the killing of rightists in the Republican zone was spontaneous and that the government sought , successfully in the long run , to bring it to an end . |
| 11 | No wonder the government sought to protect private sector interests transitionally . |
| 12 | The quadripartite Allied government sought to agree on how to control , in the most detailed way , every facet of the running and administration of Germany , a country where , at that time , there had been a complete collapse of the economy , the agricultural system and everything else without our ‘ help and interpretation ’ . |
| 13 | These changes also had a significant impact at the political level as government sought to introduce reforms to accommodate these changes . |
| 14 | For example , in one case the government sought an interim injunction to restrain a drug company from disobeying a statutory order regulating the price it could charge the NHS for its drugs ; and in a recent series of cases local authorities have sought interim injunctions against traders to restrain them from opening their businesses on Sunday in breach of Sunday trading laws . |
| 15 | In Gower 's case at least , these failings may have more to do with the way the government sought to conduct its review of investor protection : ostensibly on the basis of the talents of one man . |
| 16 | The government sought , therefore , to emphasise the distinctive roles and responsibilities of officers and councillors . |
| 17 | The system used to distribute RSG after 1981 became increasingly complex as the government sought to contain local expenditure . |
| 18 | Government regarded as an unacceptable invasion of its own sovereignty the use of proceedings in the United States courts as a means by which the United States government sought to investigate activities outside the United States of British companies and individuals which might infringe American anti-trust laws As has already been noted , a request for extracts from a public record is an example of a Request falling outside the judicial function in some States . |
| 19 | In the first month of the new junta , 131 workers were reported killed as the military hardliners in government sought to clamp down op the unions . |
| 20 | The government sought co-operation with the unions and the farmers as well as with businessmen . |
| 21 | Assigning children to levels within attainment targets is only the first stage in the ranking of children and schools which the government sought to establish . |
| 22 | Yet in 1982 , Lloyd 's won exemption from the Financial Services Act by which the British government sought to protect ordinary people from financial charlatans , accepting instead that Lloyd 's should regulate itself ( which it has failed to do ) . |
| 23 | The Swedish government sought the extradition of the applicant to face trial for drug trafficking offences in respect of which P. , an alleged accomplice who had been convicted of similar offences , had made a statement to the Swedish court implicating the applicant . |
| 24 | In the 1960s the government sought to reduce the animist religious confusion in the nation — and centralize its own authority by abolishing the practice of all but five officially sanctioned religions . |
| 25 | Sir John had identified a great number of passages which he regarded as objectionable from the government viewpoint , but I suspect he recognised early on that there was nothing of a very secret nature to conceal and what the government sought to suppress were the comments made by Crossman and others about senior civil servants . |
| 26 | A complication from the government 's point of view was that the Sunday Times had contracted to publish extracts from the diaries and in fact did so before the government sought a gagging injunction . |
| 27 | This new ‘ philosophy ’ , enshrined in the 1980 Act , was to lead to increasing central-local tensions during the 1980s as central government sought to impose , and reinforce where necessary , controls over the expenditure of individual local authorities . |
| 28 | In 1970 the Heath government sought to fit in the third piece of the Plowden jigsaw — the efficiency function . |
| 29 | Thatcher 's government sought to extend the financial incentives , encouraging doctors to undertake preventative health checks and reach immunisation and vaccination targets . |
| 30 | During the 1660s and 1670s he was one of the principal means by which the government sought to influence City politics . |