Example sentences of "government [vb past] [adv] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The favourite illustration of a public good was the lighthouse : the conditions of non-excludability and non-rivalrous consumption were both met , and it was obvious that if governments did not provide lighthouses nobody would . |
| 2 | It was , of course , more difficult in the 1970s , when Governments did not have majorities of that nature . |
| 3 | First , ever since the war governments had willingly taken responsibility for the management of the national economy and by the late 1960s it was clear that this ‘ management ’ was becoming much less successful : inflation and unemployment were emerging as serious problems and the balance of payments position , upon which Wilson laid such stress , was increasingly precarious . |
| 4 | THE INDIAN government tried yesterday to deflect attention from the Bofors corruption scandal by linking one of the fiercest opposition critics of Rajiv Gandhi , the Prime Minister , with shady financial dealing . |
| 5 | When the Minister next meets the trade unions will he explain to them why the Government threatened not to recognise trade unions representing employees on Ministry of Defence property when those trade unions are affiliated to the Labour party ? |
| 6 | Central and local government worked hard to improve methods and disseminate new techniques . |
| 7 | Unable to justify the privatisation of a natural monopoly on familiar grounds such as competition and consumer choice , the government chose instead to emphasise regulation , boasting that privatisation would separate the provider from the regulator — or , to use a phrase much quoted by Mr Howard at the time , the gamekeeper from the poacher . |
| 8 | On Feb. 11 the Soviet government offered also to begin negotiations on the withdrawal of the 40,000 Soviet troops stationed in Poland . |
| 9 | The FUT president Fausto Dután warned that an indefinite general strike would be called if the government did not grant pay rises to offset price increases resulting from the economic austerity measures announced on Jan. 24 . |
| 10 | In theory evacuation turned the child population over to the State — although , in practice , however much the TES called for it , government did not make evacuation compulsory . |
| 11 | The ANC conference held in Johannesburg on Dec. 14-16 ended with a commitment to continue negotiations but with a threat to suspend them if the government did not take action before April 30 , 1991 , to halt township violence , release all political prisoners , allow exiles to return , repeal remaining " repressive " legislation and halt political trials . |
| 12 | The behaviour of the Hong Kong government did not help matters . |
| 13 | However , there were reports of fresh supplies of Chinese arms being made to the Khmers Rouges — possibly under old agreements — and Hun Sen said that his government did not believe China 's statement . |
| 14 | The government had also faced criticism over its slowness in implementing economic reforms . |
| 15 | It was reported on Jan. 16 that the government had also requested assistance worth $US130,000,000 from the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank . |
| 16 | During much of Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti 's seventh administration , formed in April 1991 [ see p. 38157 ] , the four coalition parties had been conscious of the approaching election and the government had progressively lost cohesion . |
| 17 | The PLO refused to accept government demands to disarm , even though the government had successfully disarmed militias based in and around Beirut in April and May [ see pp. 38168 ; 38214 ] , on the grounds that PLO fighters in the south were not a militia but an army , engaged in a war with Israel and its proxy South Lebanon Army ( SLA ) . |
| 18 | The government had yet to receive permission for this sale from creditor banks holding part of the airline 's assets as guarantees of earlier debts . |
| 19 | I remember in 1990 attending the same conference as Councillors and Councillor , hearing from , the principle civil servant in charge of the Act , that the Government had not defined need and that would emerge through decisions made in Court . |
| 20 | It is a matter of public record that when a certain accident occurred only one day after the political pendulum had swung over and a new administration had taken office , an irate member of parliament demanded to know why the government had not taken steps to prevent such things taking place . |
| 21 | After several months of growing pressure the " Iraqgate " affair — which centred on the allegation that the US government had covertly supplied loans to Iraq and then sought to conceal the evidence — burst into the open during October . |
| 22 | The Iraqgate affair centred on the allegation that the US government had covertly supplied loans to Iraq and then sought to conceal the evidence . |
| 23 | The main parties in the pro-military ruling coalition government had initially offered resistance to the dissolution moves but this had gradually weakened after one of the five , the Social Action Party , left the coalition on June 12 . |
| 24 | Some indigenous activists say Ecuador 's government had better pay attention , or face a guerrilla uprising like that in next-door Peru . |
| 25 | She said the Iranian government had always disclaimed responsibility for Khordad 15 , said to be a religious charity . |
| 26 | And it soon emerged that the government had systematically arranged breaches of the Drinking Water Directive that would stretch into the next century . |
| 27 | Party leader John Bruton , launching the first of the campaign manifestos , said the Reynolds ' government had still left unemployment at a near-record high level . |
| 28 | The plant continued to run in warm-up mode while the federal government attempted unsuccessfully to persuade North-Rhine Westphalia to reconsider . |
| 29 | These approvals are the first to come forward under the transitional arrangements the Government set up to cover RECHAR in the 1992–93 financial year . |