Example sentences of "[art] government [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For several years BR had been trying to persuade the government to authorise the East Coast main line electrification ; after considerable discussion this was eventually agreed in July 1984 . |
| 2 | Though from time to time the editorial columns of both Uhuru and the Nationalist called for the Government to take the paper over , and a few MPs supported them , the Standard was not nationalized until February 1970 . |
| 3 | For more than 20 years the IRA has been executing a horrendous campaign of genocide against the Protestant community , and in the names of the thousands of dead and injured I urge the Government to take the war to the terrorists . |
| 4 | In a characteristically pragmatic way , the BMA in Scotland persuaded the government to allow the proposals to be tested . |
| 5 | Could Spanish owners of fishing vessels force the government to allow the vessels to fish in British waters pending a decision as to whether they were entitled to do so under European Community law ? |
| 6 | Pressure on the government to widen the scope of the inquiry intensified further after the arrest on Aug. 7 under the Prevention of Corruption Act of V. Krishnamurti , an influential technocrat and former member of the Planning Commission . |
| 7 | Senior Conservative MPs have already protested about the move and called on the Government to foot the £650m bill or risk losing key marginal seats at the next general election . |
| 8 | Dr Charlton , of the University of Manchester , recommended a policy directive from the Government to put the issue of smoking firmly on the agenda . |
| 9 | The Bishop of London , who was responsible for church organization in America , suggested in 1749 that a bishopric should be created for the American colonies ; nonconformist Protestants in England and in America opposed it strongly enough to lead the government to lay the idea aside . |
| 10 | Moves by the Government to incorporate the EC directive on money laundering into UK law at the earliest opportunity have received strong support from the Institute 's Financial Reporting and Auditing Group . |
| 11 | The fixed asset holders , meanwhile , managed to get preferential help from the government to ease the pain . |
| 12 | In mid-1989 , the Fiji Trade Union Council , derecognised by the government in 1986 because of its links with the Labour Party [ see p. 35251 ] , called for a general strike to force the government to lift the freeze on wages and revive the defunct wage guideline forum comprising the Fiji Trades Union Congress , the government and the employers ' association . |
| 13 | TROOPS will be used to provide emergency ambulance cover in London from this afternoon in what the unions yesterday described as a political attempt by the Government to escalate the dispute . |
| 14 | TROOPS will be used to provide emergency ambulance cover in London from this afternoon in what the unions yesterday described as a political attempt by the Government to escalate the dispute . |
| 15 | TROOPS will be used to provide emergency cover in London from 2pm today in what the unions yesterday described as a ‘ political ’ attempt by the Government to escalate the ambulance dispute . |
| 16 | They presumably put in train the arrangements for the necessary legislation , as on 27th April , Molesworth introduced a Bill to the House of Commons to enable the Government to acquire the land for the scheme . |
| 17 | The Child Poverty Action Group has urged the government to improve the take-up of benefits and the service provided to claimants . |
| 18 | After the war he founded the Disabled Society , lobbying the government to improve the quality of artificial limbs . |
| 19 | The enhanced political partisanship of the larger authorities established after 1974 — 75 , particularly in the urban areas , led the government to appoint the Widdicombe Committee to consider the conduct of local authority business . |
| 20 | When doing the sums , remember that the special incentive payments given by the government to mark the launch of personal pensions are due to end by April 1993 . |
| 21 | Greenpeace campaigners called on the Government to halt the work immediately . |
| 22 | The UN , the US embassy in Khartoum and other foreign embassies were reported to have appealed to the government to halt the relocation programme . |
| 23 | The MP said it was the duty of the Government to ask the Saudis to give special consideration to Britons working in their country and , in effect , to give them dispensation from certain of the Islamic punishments . |
| 24 | According to the Ministry of Agriculture , a favourable summary would encourage the Government to ask the EC Commission to change its rules on live cattle trading . |
| 25 | It is both notable and ironic that the Justice Model 's central phrase ‘ just deserts ’ was used by the government to christen the package of proposals embodied in the 1991 Act . |
| 26 | In a Supply Debate on the following Thursday , 4th August , the House sitting as a Committee were asked by the Government to vote the £30,000 required for foundations , and £100,000 to purchase land authorized under Manners ' Act . |
| 27 | Late on 29 June 1690 , having so far evaded battle , he was ordered by the government to engage the enemy , being goaded into action by a message from the queen herself : ‘ We apprehend the consequences of your retiring to the Gunfleet to be so fatal , that we choose rather that you should , upon any advantage of the wind , give battle to the enemy . ’ |
| 28 | As the Financial Times pointed out , there are rational arguments for the government to borrow the money , instead of trying to hold down investment in order to raise the funds from private investors and short term price rises for consumers of 7 per cent above inflation or more . |
| 29 | The Select Committee 's examination of the four options which looks at a wide range of technical , economic , social and environmental factors and recommends the government to choose the Channel Tunnel Group proposal . |
| 30 | Labour too are seeking legal advice of their own and there is growing pressure for the Government to publish the advice upon which it has rested . |