Example sentences of "[conj] [subord] [art] government [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The CPRS paper argued that if the Government were serious about reducing public expenditure , the time had come to consider some radical solutions . |
| 2 | He later remarked that if the government was to fulfil its role it should not be affiliated to any party , and it therefore followed that the Premier should not belong to any party either . |
| 3 | As far as you could understand him , this was to the effect that since the Government was rejecting any suggestion that it was to blame for this scandal , since most of the alleged swindlers were difficult to bring to book , and since the investors who lost the money nearly all live in Tory marginals , then the one innocent party — the taxpayer — would foot the £150 million bill . |
| 4 | Another scholar claims that since the government was trying to create a class of peasant smallholders , it had to safeguard the peasant 's person , his property and his entrepreneurial activity ; " Securing these conditions without an apparatus of justice was impossible " . |
| 5 | The Parliamentary Under Secretary of State , Mrs Virginia Bottomley , reiterated the familiar British line that while the government was ‘ already considering the scope of agricultural restrictions , ’ it ‘ believes that wherever possible , they should in the first event be on a voluntary basis , with compulsory powers being retained as a fall-back . ’ |
| 6 | Nowhere was the impact of this clumsy sleight of hand more evident than in the inner cities , where voluntary organizations had been most active , and where the Government was most anxious for them to mop up unemployment . |
| 7 | I believe that 's something that needs to be looked at and if the government were prepared to embark on a review of auditing er generally then that is something that I think there is some useful point in pursuing further er it 's interesting that er er erm when Bingham examined this point at paragraph three er point three nine in his report er he has a long paragraph er discussing these matters and er he says that er he at the end of the day he does n't come to a concluded view er although he does er acknowledge the fact that there are many people er depositors or example , share holders and employees who might have an interest in a particular company . |
| 8 | But you see they did n't know the truth of the exploration , but if the Government was fifty fifty in it they 'd be entitled to know the exact amount and quantity and what was underneath your feet . |