Example sentences of "government is [v-ing] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Government is seeking to scrap the councils , which have powers to set minimum rates of pay and other terms of conditions of service . |
| 2 | The federal government is trying to persuade the communes to give up their existing sales taxes and rely in future either on transfers from the budgets of the republics and provinces or on revenue raised by taxes on local incomes and property . |
| 3 | Several questions remain unanswered : would the police force be split into three at a time when the government is trying to rationalise the service . |
| 4 | The Government is trying to control the porn trade . |
| 5 | ‘ The government is trying to fiddle the figures in an attempt to curry political favour just like it fiddled the unemployment figures . ’ |
| 6 | The government is trying to boost the ailing economy by converting the defence industry to civilian production . |
| 7 | Unfortunately , there is precious little evidence that the government is trying to understand the protestors . |
| 8 | Now what I 'd like to do this afternoon in the short time that we have is to outline some of the ways in which the British government is helping to meet the challenges of under development . |
| 9 | If high speed trains are to continue to run on it , then £800m needs to be spent on upgrading this route , but the Government is refusing to make the necessary investment . |
| 10 | There are indications , however , that the government is beginning to tackle the problem . |
| 11 | With the third highest number of AIDS cases in the world , the Brazilian Government is beginning to recognise the possibility of an epidemic . |
| 12 | The government is proposing to extend the areas around the Shetland Islands from which loaded oil tankers are banned . |
| 13 | The Government is proposing to bring the majority of these buildings within the ambit of local authority control . |
| 14 | Friends of the Earth has claimed that the British government is failing to alert the public adequately when ozone levels in the atmosphere cause a deterioration of air quality . |
| 15 | erm er Government is going to allow the electoral |
| 16 | The Prime Minister 's recent speech at the Charities Aid Foundation Conference , indicates that the Government is going to make the encouragement of voluntary sector across the er , community and in encouragement of voluntary activity , a principle focus of the U K Presidency of the community from July next year . |
| 17 | Dr Clark Brundin of Warwick University said : ‘ We did not say at our meeting in Leeds — and this is where we have shot ourselves in the foot — that no government is going to meet the cost of higher education . |