Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [prep] government [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mine has since — with violent and fatal opposition — been placed under government control . |
| 2 | The FPR 's Radio Muhabura , on the other hand , carried the allegation on Sept. 6 that the Front 's positions had been attacked by government troops , and the FPR denied that its own forces had been on the offensive . |
| 3 | In rural areas , despite soaring inflation , wages have been frozen by government decree since 1979 and have dropped in real terms by 69.3% between 1971–81 . |
| 4 | I was going to say that in a lot of these countries the logging concessions are owned by government ministers and the elite . |
| 5 | I have said a good deal more on Government Back Benches than I have on Opposition Back Benches and very often it has been what has been done on Government Back Benches that has saved even Labour Governments from some of their follies . |
| 6 | Claims have been made for government compensation of the artisans who fashion expensive spectacle frames , combs and jewellery from the shells . |
| 7 | Their jobs become more and more difficult , their independence is eroded , and their wages are threatened by government attempts to cut spending . |
| 8 | Have not calls for action by organisations such as the Society for Black Lawyers been met by Government intransigence ? |
| 9 | The research is to be jointly funded by the club members , who have so far allocated £2m , and which has been matched by government funds . |
| 10 | THREE women widowed in the Gulf war have been told by Government officials that they will not set aside money from the publicly-donated Gulf Trust to help them with an education fund for their children . |
| 11 | An outstanding example was provided by the GEC merger with English Electric in 1968 in which its promoter , Arnold Weinstock , firmly believed he had been helped by government support through the IRC . |
| 12 | The UN Security Council ultimatum , which came amidst renewed US threats of a military offensive against Iraq [ see p. 38307 ] , had been handed to government officials by a delegation of UN weapons inspectors who arrived in Baghdad on June 30 . |
| 13 | At an even earlier date in Australia , the development of employers ' associations had been facilitated by government intervention and by the increasing complexity of the legislative , labour-management framework ( see Chapter 5 ) . |
| 14 | The General Household Survey is conducted annually , and the Family Expenditure Survey and New Earnings Survey are commissioned by government departments and carried out by the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys . |
| 15 | One reason is that interest rates are affected by government policy , so the cost of capital can be blamed on government ( ours ) . |
| 16 | I believe what the Newcastle local authority tells me , because I know only too well how Gateshead has been affected by Government cuts which the local authority has been forced to implement . |
| 17 | A significant proportion of his time had , however , been spent on government consultancy work which , he says , incorporated both his technical background and his professional training . |
| 18 | Furthermore , many of these developments have actually been proposed by government departments or statutory bodies ; examples include the Fylingdales Moor Defence Station on the North Yorkshire Moors and nuclear power stations in Snowdonia . |
| 19 | The various tasks undertaken by Central Government are executed by Government Departments such as the Treasury , the Home Office , the Department of the Environment . |
| 20 | We said to both of them , look you are quasi-government organizations who are sponsored by government departments there can only be one technical view . |
| 21 | In BR 's case at least , these pressures have been accompanied by government efforts to strengthen the competitive forces facing the railways . |
| 22 | Their ammunition will be given to government forces before the exodus begins . |
| 23 | The Amnesty report also said that " no credibility " should be given to government denials of certain human rights abuses which , Amnesty claimed , included the torture of political detainees in specially adapted houses known as " ghost houses " . |
| 24 | The clash is expected to be resolved via government pressure and the spat is more sound than substance , say analysts . |
| 25 | This is a problem which may be solved in Government time , ’ he said . |
| 26 | The OSI Network Management Forum has delivered its Omnipoint 1 reference model for builders of integrated management products : Omnipoint is a set of standards , specifications and technologies that were created by a broad coalition and it is referenced in the US government 's Network Management Profile , soon to be included in government procurement guidelines in the UK ; among the technologies lurking in there are CMIP/X.700 , SNMP , work from X/Open Co Ltd and the Object Management Group ; the specifications are due to be published formally in October , and the idea is that systems that conform to the Omnipoint specs will be able to interwork . |
| 27 | It meant an increasing tendency for all men-of-war , at least of the larger types , to be built in government dockyards rather than by private contractors . |
| 28 | The ultimate disposal of these personnel will be decided on Government levels . " |
| 29 | Vice-President Virgilio Godoy stated that the murder , which was seen as a setback for the attempt of President Violeta Barrios de Chamorro to promote national reconciliation , should not go unpunished and would have to be solved " even if this has to be done outside government institutions " . |
| 30 | And if it were unpredictable , then while it would have an immediate effect on output , this could not be prevented by government policy since the government would not be able to foresee the fall in aggregate demand . |