Example sentences of "be that a [adj] government " in BNC.
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| 1 | My contention is that a national government should treat a sum of one Ppound in the same manner that an individual treats an ordinary pound . |
| 2 | The first was that a Labour government was going to rely on economic growth to finance its increases in public expenditure , the second was that it would ban fox-hunting . |
| 3 | It was that a newly-elected government should consider the facts that every day , the NSPCC 's professionals are working with an average of nearly 2,000 cases , involving some 4,300 children ; that around 120,000 calls were handled by the society in the first year of their new , free 24-hour national child protection line ; and that more children than ever before are getting in touch with the NSPCC . |
| 4 | Yet , the irony of the early 1980s — as a deteriorating , but perennial , urban problem rapidly became the most acute aspect of the crisis of mass unemployment — was that a Tory government , willy-nilly , found itself presiding over an increase in state intervention through a variety of agencies . |
| 5 | The conclusion of the first section was that a just government can exist even if its subjects are not bound by a general obligation to obey it . |