Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [art] government [unc] " in BNC.

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1 I thank the Minister for that answer and the confirmation that during the Government 's tenure the burden has been placed firmly on the shoulders of those who are least able to bear it .
2 And he made clear that despite the government 's small majority , they would be prepared to take difficult decisions about how to reduce the enormous government deficit .
3 Mr Fowler added that in the Government 's even-handed approach to employment , people would have the right to belong to a union and could not be excluded from a job on the grounds that they were trade unionists .
4 The message which I bring you is , that on the Government 's own figures , business failures will rise by 35,000 in the next 12 months and unemployment will rise much faster yet … ’
5 Experience shows that there will not be enough time and that on the Government 's reckoning there will not be enough resources .
6 Another dismissed Cabinet minister , Mr Biffen is a frequent critic of Mrs Thatcher 's tone and of the government 's preference for tax cuts over greater spending on the social services .
7 It might be helpful if I were to outline briefly the history of the STUCC and of the Government 's thinking on this matter .
8 Is not that the true measure of the Act and of the Government 's lack of commitment to the environment ?
9 He stated that there would be no new taxes or loans to fund the shortfall and that the cost would be met through the sale of state corporations and of the government 's shareholdings in the major commercial banks .
10 Private residential homes are frequently small family businesses and , as such , they are in tune with Conservative Party ideology and with the government 's economic strategy .
11 The answer is Yes , but it would have taken much longer and with the Government 's 1994 Review so imminent it made good sense to push on with the change process .
12 That is what we mean by freedom from increasing centralisation and from the Government 's highly prescriptive policies .
13 The payment would appear in your 1988 accounts , and in the Government 's accounts for 1988/89 , just as if it had been made in August .
14 Julio César Turbay Ayala , the president of the Liberal Party ( Partido Liberal — PL ) and President of the Republic in 1978-82 , and Misael Pastrana Borrero , the president of the opposition Social Conservative Party ( Partido Social Conservador — PSC ) , resigned from their posts on Dec. 14 , 1989 , in protest at the indiscipline shown by both parliamentary groups in pressing for referendums on both political reform and on the government 's policy of extraditing drug traffickers to stand trial in the United States .
15 We now see underlying inflation moving above 4% ( and outside the Government 's new 1% to 4% target range ) through 1993 as the impact of the lower pound feeds through .
16 In response to the new revelations and to the government 's reaction to the scandal , the ANC president Nelson Mandela renewed his call for the State President 's resignation and demanded that control of the security forces be surrendered to an interim government of national unity .
17 One result was the triumphant expansion of some charitable organizations , which rejoiced both at their new-found importance and at the Government 's munificence .
18 However , if agents are rational and aware of the economic environment in which they operate — here summarized by the shape of the Phillips curves and iso-vote lines , and by the government 's objective of maximizing V — then V 1 is not a feasible equilibrium .
19 Obviously I strongly believe that industry has to be modernised — none of us is against that — but during the Government 's term of office the restructuring in many of our industries has been far too savage .
20 But of the government 's share , about half goes on defence activities .
21 But under the Government 's health reforms , routine surgery like a knee replacement , can easily be referred elsewhere .
22 But with the Government 's popularity having plunged over the past 11 months , he may have a struggle on his hands to beat off the Liberal Democrats , who were runners-up in Newbury last April .
23 But in the Government 's view the Department 's handling of the case was within the acceptable range of standards reasonably to be expected of a regulator . ’
24 But before the Government 's reforms , the system did not always allow that dedication to produce the service which people should be able to expect .
25 However , Lord Marshall 's letter says that because of the Government 's commitment to introduce competition into electricity supply as quickly as possible ‘ alternative arrangements for protecting the security of supply ’ would need to be made , involving a ‘ capacity deficiency scheme ’ .
26 Dissent increased in the 1983 Parliament , partly because of the government 's larger majority , which enables rebels to dissent without jeopardizing the government .
27 Bus usage in leading English cities has fallen by a sixth since 1985/86 because of the Government 's deregulation of bus operations , says a study for the Association of Metropolitan Authorities .
28 The minister , Mr Nicholas Ridley , had to leave out the expected bill because of the Government 's heavy legislative programme .
29 But there is a widespread belief that the travelling public will be forced to meet a substantial share of the new safety costs through higher fares , because of the Government 's policy of reducing taxpayers ' support for the railways .
30 Although some subsidiaries of state firms have been publicly floated , as in the case of Pechiney , the aluminium and packaging group , they remain immune from takeovers because of the government 's significant shareholdings .
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