Example sentences of "[v-ing] to [art] government [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Investments were valued at NZ$13bn , two-thirds relating to the government 's equity investment in wholly or partly state-owned enterprises . |
| 2 | His evidence was that he read the report on the night that he received it and was — as others would have been — shocked to find that the parliamentary statements relating to the government 's support for the Nigerians were demonstrably false . |
| 3 | According to the government 's own statistics , the richest one percent of the population own three times as much as the poorest 50 percent put together . |
| 4 | The lukewarm reception among the public for the electronic telephone directory is but one example of how the French people are not always ready to react according to the government 's plans . |
| 5 | According to the government 's plans , defence spending will grow from $187 000 million in 1982 to $274000 million in 1984 . |
| 6 | It was one of many ‘ errors and omissions ’ pushing up the cost of road works according to the government 's National Audit Office . |
| 7 | According to The Government 's Expenditure Plans to 1984/85 ( Cmnd.8494 , 1982 ) it is the government 's aim that the customers of the nationalized industries will have charges levied against them sufficient to find 75 per cent of capital expenditure . |
| 8 | According to the government 's rhetoric , a fundamental change in the relationship between the provider and the recipient of care and treatment will transform the nature of services themselves . |
| 9 | According to the government 's figures ( Cm 1021 , 1990 ) public expenditure as a share of the GDP was 43.5 per cent in 1979/80 . |
| 10 | When the right hon. Gentleman next takes the opportunity to visit Blackpool , will he refer to the fact that according to the Government 's own figures which have been supplied to me , 38 per cent . |
| 11 | In the present recession , almost 100,000 jobs have gone , according to the Government 's figures published in Employment Gazette . |
| 12 | However , recession seemed unavoidable , according to the government 's prognoses for 1990 . |
| 13 | According to the government 's privatization strategy , by 1994 the proportion of state assets should be reduced to below 50 per cent , with foreign ownership reaching 25 per cent . |
| 14 | According to the government 's economic report for 1990 , the economy registered a 9.4 per cent growth in gross domestic product ( GDP ) as compared with 8.8 per cent in 1989 . |
| 15 | According to the government 's annual economic survey published in May 1991 , GDP was expected to grow by 5.6 per cent in the current fiscal year to June 1991 , owing to an increase in agricultural production of 5.1 per cent , up from 2.1 per cent a year earlier . |
| 16 | Some vegetation on the heath is dying , according to the government 's nature watchdog , English Nature . |
| 17 | Radioactive material discharged from the Sellafield processing plant into the Irish Sea over the past 40 years may eventually accumulate in sandy sediments on the seabed , according to the government 's Directorate of Fisheries Research . |
| 18 | More than seventy percent of children at one school have played truant in the past year , according to the Government 's school league tables published today . |
| 19 | This is damaging to the Government 's credit and we must do all we can to avoid it . ’ |
| 20 | Elcho told the House about Palmerston 's reaction to the delegation and , pointing to the Government 's slender majority , asked them to ensure that the subject would not become a ‘ see-saw ’ . |
| 21 | He is only now showing interest after pressure from Cabinet colleagues like Environment Secretary Michael Heseltine , fearful of the damage the Scottish Office is doing to the government 's shaky green image . |
| 22 | Industrialists have been notably unwilling and unforthcoming in responding to the Government 's requests . |
| 23 | Now whilst the minister quite understandable pays tribute er to those who spent some considerable time and effort in getting the practice notes right and responding to the government 's proposals , it is fair to say that there are many , not just in the auditing industry , but those who represent the companies who are audited who have expressed a number of concerns , a minister has mentioned some , the relations with the client for example . |
| 24 | When the dockers walked out at Sharpness , responding to the Government 's plants to scrap their jobs for life guarantee under the National Dock Labour Board Scheme , they surprised their own union officials as well as the management . |
| 25 | Referring to the Government 's Green Paper , he stated : ’ The word Europe' does not appear in the green paper on introducing unitary authorities . |
| 26 | On May 21 the governor of the ( West Beirut-based ) Central Bank , Edmond Naim , requested Arab states to intervene to bolster the Lebanese currency by buying up Lebanese pounds and subscribing to the government 's regular treasury bills . |