Example sentences of "the government have a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just as he did this , the government had a change of heart and decided that there would after all be a Private Members ' ballot . |
| 2 | Last year the government had a budget deficit equal to 8% of GDP . |
| 3 | During the period from late-1988 to early-1991 , when the government had a budget surplus , there were no new issues of stock and , at times , the Bank was an active net buyer of outstanding stock . |
| 4 | The project was to be administered by a joint private- and public-sector company in which the government had a minority interest . |
| 5 | The Northern Ireland Secretary , Sir Patrick Mayhew , has told the Commons that the Government had a duty to respond to IRA overtures on how the conflict in Northern Ireland could be ended . |
| 6 | The first is , where is Lincoln going , Lincolnshire going to left after the local erm , government commission put their proposals forward and the government have a look at them , and then secondly , what our , as we note from Item Eleven , a fuller report will be brought to this sub-committee when the local government staff commission or the Secretary of State to give us definitive advice . |
| 7 | It fails to comprehend the weakness of the House of Commons when the Government have a majority . |
| 8 | Surely the Government have a responsibility to investigate mechanisms to reduce failures to a minimum . |
| 9 | The Government have a responsibility to look more carefully at the positive arguments advanced . |
| 10 | It is obvious that the Government have a chance to consider what they are proposing . |
| 11 | The Government have a duty and I am here to answer it — — if the House will give me an opportunity . |
| 12 | The Government have a policy of continuing to reduce the noise , pollution , vibration and road damage caused by heavy lorries . |
| 13 | We know that the Government have a record on child care . |
| 14 | The silence may not last — but for as long as it does , the government has a chance to strengthen France 's macroeconomic foundations . |
| 15 | But it is unlikely that collective bargaining by farmworkers will be implemented since the Government has a minority in the Senate — with nine senators bequeathed by former president Pinochet . |
| 16 | IF anyone in the Government has a conscience , I hope it was pricked by your terribly moving picture of Belinda Giles asking Santa to keep open London 's St Bartholomew 's Hospital , where she is being treated for cancer . |
| 17 | It may be that the government has a proportion of the blame but you 're not surely condoning teachers who have these problems being up in front of children in the classroom ? |
| 18 | This is somewhat unrealistic because provided the government has a majority in the House of Commons , any parliamentary challenge to such a decision on political grounds would be unlikely to be successful . |
| 19 | The Government has a majority in the Commons and can force its measures through relying on such factors as the " whip system " and party loyalty . |
| 20 | The Government must then make time for the resolution to be discussed although , as the Government has a majority and can normally force its measures through , it is unusual for such resolutions to be unsuccessful . |
| 21 | That I no longer believe that the government has a majority for this measure . |
| 22 | Three-quarters of all Germans now believe that the government has a duty to provide them with a job and a house . |
| 23 | The government has a list of long-promised infrastructure projects that could make up for the fall in private investment , though a bitter dispute in progress between the government and foreign banks that have lent 20 billion baht ( $187m ) for an elevated motorway in Bangkok may make finance for future projects harder to come by . |
| 24 | Is it not enough that the government has a monopoly on war ? ’ |
| 25 | Public accountability is particularly important in respect of activities over which the government has a monopoly and in respect of which the citizen has no choice but to deal with the government . |
| 26 | The government has a number of possible policy instruments which it can use for this purpose . |
| 27 | If you can do business each week for less than the price of a TV licence , the government has a deal for you . |