Example sentences of "government [vb pp] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Soviet Union entered 1991 without a budget , and with the USSR and Russian Federation governments locked in a dispute over the latter 's budget contributions . |
| 2 | First past the post and governments elected by a minority of the vote are sustainable only when there is a turnabout of minority governments . |
| 3 | During spring 1986 his government arranged for a number of ‘ spontaneous ’ demonstrations of support in the West Bank , and a series of newspaper articles appeared confirming popular support for his efforts and denouncing the PLO 's betrayal of an historic opportunity for peace . |
| 4 | The Francoist government responded with a measure appropriate to a wartime economy , issuing ration-cards for all basic necessities , such as bread , potatoes , eggs , meat and milk . |
| 5 | The government responded with a mixture of repression and concessions . |
| 6 | In this latter case a major controversy arose in the early 1980s between a Conservative government committed to a reduction in public expenditure and several local authorities controlled by the Labour Party . |
| 7 | In any case a government committed to a reduction in taxes on incomes would not welcome the substitution of LIT for domestic rates ( DOE/Welsh Office 1983a : 13 and 1986:23 ) . |
| 8 | After a tactical switch by the Liberal Democrats , the Government pushed through a vote to speed progress on the troubled bill , with the prospect of a possible all-night sitting . |
| 9 | The Japanese government decided on a number of occasions to foster particular industries , using a large armoury of policies . |
| 10 | The Czech government decided at a cabinet meeting on 10 March to give the go-ahead for completion of the Temelin nuclear plant in southern Bohemia . |
| 11 | In October the UK government agreed to a July request from the Legislative Assembly for a review of the 1972 Constitution . |
| 12 | In an effort to meet the terms set by the World Bank in June 1989 for the granting of a US$150,000,000 structural adjustment loan , the government agreed to a number of measures aimed at restructuring the banking , state and agricultural sectors . |
| 13 | Her government embarked on a policy of national reconciliation after a decade of revolution , war and political polarization . |
| 14 | Is there some inherent virtue in a system of government derived from a constitution , which is lacking in a country which does not have such a codified constitution ? |
| 15 | The political emphasis for these and other initiatives has been crucial to a Conservative government set on a course of action that can best be described by the phrase ‘ small is beautiful ’ . |
| 16 | Following some reluctance to become involved in air pollution control , the federal government opted for a research role in 1955 and only slowly did it begin to intervene with the control policies adopted by the states . |
| 17 | After independence , the ZANU government opted for a policy of reconciliation rather than confrontation with its white settler population , and by association with its direct southern neighbour , South Africa . |
| 18 | The National Bank was built as early as 1830 and in JTR 's time there was a comparable expansion of its administrative function just as today with all branches of government represented within a hand 's throw of the Square . |
| 19 | Because we believe in stable democratic government supported by a majority of the British people , we shall not only campaign wholeheartedly for fair votes in the coming weeks , we also make a pledge for the period after the election . |
| 20 | The Prime Minister heads a government composed of a Cabinet of her senior ministers and about eighty non-Cabinet ministers all bound to a policy implicitly approved by the electorate ; the Prime Minister and all her colleagues must justify their actions and their policies before parliament , and if parliament withdraws its confidence , they must resign and face the stern judgment of the electorate upon their stewardship . |
| 21 | We have seen in this account the rise and legitimation of Conservative criminology for a government elected on a law and order issue . |
| 22 | These brief indications drawn from the literature leave no doubt as to the scale of the problems facing the Labour government elected in a landslide victory in 1945 . |
| 23 | The Indian Government sent as a gift pieces of twelve different kinds of coloured marble which the architect deployed throughout the house , using their colours as a focus for the interior decoration . |
| 24 | Local authorities ( especially ‘ high-spending ’ Labour-controlled councils ) were prime targets , particularly since local government accounted for a quarter of public expenditure in 1979/80 . |