Example sentences of "[art] government [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | A BRITISH lord is trying to make the government honour a 25-year-old promise to trade and industry . |
| 2 | The government offered a 5-year subsidy to people moving from the state earnings-related pension scheme to take out a private pension . |
| 3 | In such a small country it is up to the Government to take a strong stand against unsuitable developments . |
| 4 | Morel tried to organize an agitation to press the Government to take a strong line with France , but the UDC 's local groups had long since disbanded , and the LNU , which favoured a conciliatory approach to the French , warned its own local groups against agitation . |
| 5 | The most valuable form of subsidy , he says , would be for the Government to take a real and permanent interest in the British film industry , to foster — simply with time and energy — a nurturing climate . |
| 6 | The ruling Liberal Democratic Party ( LDP ) in March asked the government to draft a new bill by April authorizing Japanese military personnel to assist UN peacekeeping operations . |
| 7 | One putative RIE — the Association of International Bond Dealers ( now the International Securities Markets Association ) found the system unacceptable , and persuaded the government to create a special exempted status for it . |
| 8 | On the strength of this advertisement , the Government persuaded a High Court judge to grant an " interim injunction " against the broadcast , because it feared that ex-employees of the security services might have breached confidence in the course of their interviews . |
| 9 | The government suffered a serious setback the following day , however , with the resignation of the Druse Progressive Socialist Party militia leader and Minister of State Walid Jumblatt . |
| 10 | The government anticipated a financial saving of at least –120m a year with abolition , but denied that the change would undermine local democracy . |
| 11 | Morel , a shipping clerk who had taken up campaigning journalism on behalf of Liverpool 's African merchant interests , set up the Congo Reform Association in 1903 , following his success in persuading the Government to issue a formal protest about the brutal regime of forced labour exercised by the Belgian King , Leopold , in the Congo . |
| 12 | Third , and most centrally , the government draw a great deal of attention to the need to establish a close fit or match between secondary school teachers ' specialist subject qualifications , and their teaching responsibilities in school . |
| 13 | In 1973 the government ran a considerable campaign to instruct electors how to record their votes under the system of proportional representation , but it was thought that after the experience of two proportional representation elections in 1973 the electorate did not need to be more than reminded of what was required . |
| 14 | On Sept. 2 the government announced a three-stage programme to remove the vestiges of communist control and integrate Estonia politically and economically with the rest of Europe . |
| 15 | On May 28 , 1991 , the government announced a new transport initiative which would ( i ) bring to an end the monopoly of freight and passenger services on its own tracks in advance of an eventual privatization of British Rail ; ( ii ) improve grants for the construction of freight distribution facilities ; ( iii ) involve the private sector in more road construction ; and ( iv ) relieve urban road congestion . |
| 16 | Prior to polling day the government announced a new package of economic stimulants including public works expenditure and tax cuts . |
| 17 | On Sept. 25 the government announced a new economic reform programme , but on Sept. 30 Kravchuk announced that he had accepted Fokin 's resignation , which was motivated by a wish " to avoid further exacerbation of the social and political situation in the republic . " |
| 18 | The government announced a five-year reorganization programme of the armed forces on Dec. 7 ( originally to have been publicized on Dec. 3 ) . |
| 19 | On Jan. 1 , 1990 , the government announced a 35-point " action plan " including a timetable for legislation and policy announcements . |
| 20 | In line with the terms of the agreement the government announced a supplementary budget on April 2 , which provided for further tax cuts and increases in the subsidies on agricultural produce and house building . |
| 21 | In the first place , although Yugoslavia has a low per capita product ( about $2,000 ) , the government takes a large share of its total product . |
| 22 | In the determination of its grant to local authorities the government uses a complex formula which tries to take into account the extent of need for the various services . |
| 23 | Back in nineteen eighty eight the government faced a massive crash cash crisis in N H S funding , and er many people within the trade union movement took part in a massive rally in London to call on the government to review its policy towards the , the Health Service . |
| 24 | EVERY Christmas the Government launches a new drink-driving offensive . |
| 25 | Although , in the early 1980s , the government made a successful attempt to make non-marketable debt more attractive , it is sales of marketable debt which remain the dominant means of funding the PSBR . |
| 26 | The Government made a good move in calling in Price Waterhouse , because clearly there was concern among residential care home owners about their funding through the income support mechanism . |
| 27 | Dissatisfied with its incapacity to make councils cut spending , the government adopted a final sanction — rate capping . |
| 28 | The law required the government to publish a weekly list of all those detained under its terms . |
| 29 | The Bundestag also approved a declaration obliging the government to respect a parliamentary vote in 1996 on whether to proceed to the third stage of economic and monetary union , involving the introduction of a single currency . |
| 30 | As reported on May 3 , 1990 , a hunger strike by an estimated 2,000 prisoners in the Colina prison in Santiago ended having failed to persuade the government to extend a limited amnesty given to political prisoners on March 20 [ see also p. 37311 ] to all inmates . |