Example sentences of "[adj] government [vb mod] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | On May 8 the government announced that prior to the " joint peace forum " to be held in London , the Ethiopian government would implement the Shengo ( parliament ) resolution by setting up a peace commission to negotiate with " all opposition and pro-unity forces " . |
| 2 | When the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Environment replies to the debate , I hope that he will tell us how the British Government will apportion the 24 delegates from the United Kingdom who will represent us on that new body , the committee of regional and local authorities . |
| 3 | Although officials remain resolutely silent , there is a widespread belief that the British Government will authorise the colony 's administration to go ahead with the first batch of mandatory repatriations this week . |
| 4 | And that appeal is really calling for three objectives : first that all member states of the United Nations do all in their power to curb Khmer Rouge military aggression and the terrorizing of civilians , secondly that the British government should take the initiative in urging member states and the appropriate U N agencies to give essential development and reconstruction aid for Cambodia and thirdly that the British government should do all within it 's power to help secure the safety of the hundred thousand Cambodian refugees in Khmer Rouge camps in Thailand , by calling for their transfer to neutral camps under U N supervision . |
| 5 | Companies raising private finance to build a toll road would probably need to offer at least 9–10% , given that many investors want compensation against the risk that a future government might expropriate the project or regulate it into unprofitability . |
| 6 | By creating ‘ yardsticks ’ , central government may find the task of monitoring quality of service more manageable ( e.g. , ‘ if more dustbins are emptied per kilometre for a lower cost in Scotland than Gateshead , central government has useful information for appraisal ’ : Helm and Smith 1987 , p. x ) . |
| 7 | Political scientists and economists differ in the views they hold about the extent to which central government ought to control the activities of local government . |
| 8 | Later Chavan hinted that the central government would consider the eventual dismissal of the state government if it was found to have violated the court order . |
| 9 | Singh responded on Oct. 19 with a compromise plan , whereby the central government would purchase the disputed area and allow the construction of a temple alongside the mosque . |
| 10 | One of the administrative advantages is that central government can ameliorate the monopoly of information which may be possessed by such agents . |
| 11 | The Conservatives , Baldwin declared in a speech in December 1930 , were the true National party , and so those who sought a National Government should support the Conservatives . |
| 12 | Charles III 's minister , Floridablanca , believed good government would solve the colonial problem ; this was a profound misconception , inherited by Spanish liberalism , for it was not mal gobierno that the creoles rejected but government by peninsulares ( peninsular Spaniards ) as such . |
| 13 | It was reported on Feb. 14 that China had appointed the 40 members of the Chinese People 's Political Consultative Committee to advise it on the affairs of the territory , leading to concern that the Chinese government might use the group , composed of business executives , conservative politicians and pro-Chinese sympathizers , to strengthen its control over Hong Kong in the run-up to 1997 . |
| 14 | Expectations in the following week that the Libyan government might hand the two men over to the Arab League , and thus pre-empt the approval on March 31 of Resolution 748 , were disappointed . |
| 15 | It was that a newly-elected government should consider the facts that every day , the NSPCC 's professionals are working with an average of nearly 2,000 cases , involving some 4,300 children ; that around 120,000 calls were handled by the society in the first year of their new , free 24-hour national child protection line ; and that more children than ever before are getting in touch with the NSPCC . |
| 16 | How the return of a Labour government would affect the political calculations in Northern Ireland is difficult to foresee . |
| 17 | A Labour government would feel the same need to mobilize support as a Conservative government and Labour politicians in office would probably feel even more disappointed with television than Conservative politicians . |
| 18 | Opening the debate on a motion condemning the government 's handling of science and science education , Straw promised that a Labour government would insulate the science budget from inflationary pressures . |
| 19 | A Labour Government would bear the impression that the last consultant laid upon them . |
| 20 | Hilary Armstrong , one of the party 's education spokesmen , yesterday said a Labour government would dismantle the City Technology Colleges , bringing them under local authority control . |
| 21 | The town 's Conservative candidate Michael Fallon said a Labour government would undermine the budgeting of the technical college and Queen Elizabeth 's sixth form college which are set to become self-governing from April 1993 . |
| 22 | There is no need for Labour to be ashamed of its defence record , although the Conservative document ’ Britain 's Defence : Unsafe in Labour 's hands ’ gives the impression that a Labour Government would destroy the Navy , devastate the Army and demolish the Royal Air Force . |
| 23 | That is how a Labour Government will serve the British people . |
| 24 | THE NEXT Labour government will abandon the ‘ corrupt priorities ’ of the Tories ' education policies and make Britain the brains of Europe , Jack Straw , the party 's education spokesman said yesterday . |
| 25 | The new Labour government will begin the phased release of receipts from council house sales so that houses can begin to be built again . ’ |
| 26 | THE NEXT LABOUR GOVERNMENT WILL ABOLISH THE POLL TAX |
| 27 | A Labour government should cancel the fourth and end all British nuclear testing . |
| 28 | In fact , regional government would have the opposite effect . |
| 29 | Discussion centred on the issue of the point at which the Irish government should enter the envisaged inter-party talks . |
| 30 | The next Conservative Government will carry the Charter still further . |