Example sentences of "government 's [noun pl] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 In return the Colorados pledged support for the government 's efforts to draw up an economic plan to combat inflation and reduce the fiscal deficit .
2 The government 's efforts to wipe out bourgeois liberalism abated during the summer of 1987 but many had suffered , from Hu Yaobang at the top to graduating students at the bottom .
3 The British Government 's accounts adopt very high levels of aggregation .
4 In such a mood it is inevitable that the Government 's attempts to bring about change through legislation and increased prescription will be generally felt to be yet another attack on autonomy and yet another indication of a lack of trust in teachers ' judgement and their ability to do a good job .
5 But that is the position which some of the Government 's critics seem now to occupy .
6 But that is the position which some of the Government 's critics seem now to occupy .
7 The serious business of taking the tough decisions necessary to agree on a budget that both puts the deficit on a downward path and meets the government 's priorities has virtually disappeared .
8 Nowadays the government 's lawyers appear more interested in the publicity a case will win them than anything else .
9 Deputy Prime Minister Zivko Pregl said on Jan. 21 that the outcome of the congress would not affect the government 's plans to press ahead with legislation to change the federal Constitution and create the conditions for a multiparty system , and he observed that the LCY in future " will be relevant to the extent that it succeeds in elections which will be direct and secret " .
10 However , attempts to push through a programme for the privatization of the banking sector in January foundered on legal difficulties , while on Feb. 19 police in Karachi clashed with union activists protesting against the government 's plans to sell off state-owned industries .
11 The Royal College of Nursing is to lobby Parliament on 24 October in protest at the Government 's plans to shake up the National Health Service , the union has announced .
12 LEGAL peers renewed their attack on the Government 's plans to shake up the legal profession yesterday , when the Courts and Legal Services Bill had its second reading in the Lords .
13 After making huge rises in VAT in the past 12 years , what are the Government 's plans to make further increases in VAT ?
14 In the original DES document in which the proposals for the schools were outlined the overall aim was said to fit in with the Government 's aims set out in their document Better schools , ‘ to improve standards ’ being the key phrase .
15 The Government 's forecasts have already been caricatured by the hon. Member for Dunfermline , East , and they were bizarre .
16 My Lords , I , I do realise and I have to be satisfied with that erm and I shall do my best , but if I could just make my absolutely clear , simple proposition that I was seeking to perform is that if you are seeking to amend the law i i it ought to be possible for those who are seeking to understand the Government 's intentions to find out relatively easily what the law is and I suggest it 's very far from easy and even if you get to it , it 's not at all easy to understand .
17 The Government 's arguments do not , however , deal with the question that runs as follows : if the Parliament in Scotland decided to raise taxation , would it not be entitled so to do if a majority in favour of that existed ?
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