Example sentences of "government have [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This , however , occurs at a time when the government has limited financial slack to be able to respond . |
| 2 | The Government has limited public sector pay rises to one point five per cent , although teachers will receive a rise of just above half of one per cent . |
| 3 | The government has to tackle structural unemployment by proceeding with an extensive retraining programme and by helping to allocate resources which promote new industries in conjunction with the private sector . |
| 4 | The Government has cut public transport subsidies . |
| 5 | Last night shadow treasury minister Harriet Harman said : ‘ The Government has demonstrated complete incompetence . |
| 6 | And the government has pushed short-term interest rates to 15% . |
| 7 | In the conduct of fiscal policy the government has to receive Parliamentary approval before proposed changes in taxation or public expenditure can be made effective , and obviously the planning of a Budget and its acceptance by Parliament is a time-consuming process . |
| 8 | In the three Education Acts passed during their first nine years of power , the Conservative government has made parental influence and involvement a central issue . |
| 9 | There are some twenty-two indigenous Indian languages spoken in these communities , and the government has made little effort to support education in these mother tongues . |
| 10 | A final line of analysis insists that the government has made little difference , particularly on unemployment . |
| 11 | By a whole series of moves , which were discussed in detail in Part II , the Government has made this form of welfare far less attractive — both in the level of payment , and the terms under which it can be obtained . |
| 12 | Suspicions have sometimes been voiced that , whenever government has supported civic education , the reason has been that learning of this kind has been interpreted as supportive of a respectful attitude . |
| 13 | The European Commission has yet to decide whether the government has breached environmental assessment procedures in giving permission for the scheme . |
| 14 | But the Government has said public money will not be available for at least 15 years . |
| 15 | This is not just of interest to professional politicians or academic specialists ; local government has become front-page news , its leading politicians such as Ken Livingstone , David Blunkett and Derek Hatton have been catapulted to national fame and the local-central government conflict detailed in Chapter 4 has been a major issue in three successive general elections . |
| 16 | The government has suffered another defeat in the House of Lords , over its plans to privatize British Rail . |
| 17 | The Bolivian government has granted limited land rights to five Indian groups over 27,000 square kilometres of Amazonian rainforest . |
| 18 | The British government has granted international status to a number of major wildlife sites in England . |
| 19 | In secondary and primary education the government has imposed central pay bargaining on the school teacher unions , a contract of service and appraisals of performance on teachers , and a core curriculum . |
| 20 | THE Egyptian government has declared open war on Muslim militants , ordering police to shoot to kill and plunging the country into its worst political violence for more than a decade . |
| 21 | In order for such a policy to be successful and efficient the government has to have some idea of the size of any changes in tax rates and so on required to stabilize the economy , and some idea of when precisely such changes are required . |
| 22 | In these conditions , the government has had little option but to accept the kinds of changes which the international financial agencies want . |
| 23 | Surveys suggest that the government has had some success . |
| 24 | His government has had considerable success in winning over guerrilla field commanders and turning them into semi-autonomous militias with lavish handouts of money and arms . |
| 25 | THE GOVERNMENT has postponed any attempt to curb industrial action in essential services and make unions legally liable for unofficial action . |
| 26 | Since nineteen eighty three the government has reduced financial support by over two billion pound and reduced staff by seventy thousand , resulting in less maintenance and falling safety standards and with , as I said higher fares , but fewer services . |
| 27 | THE Government has forced robbed Mirror pensioners to scrap a vital court case . |
| 28 | Few would doubt that the rise of government has produced economic inefficiency and restricted the freedom of choice . |
| 29 | The Nicaraguan government has found this policy of amnesty hard to make acceptable to the general public . |
| 30 | The French government has told French industry to set up Eco Emballage , a recycling organisation which gives members the right to use a green dot on their packaging in exchange for paying a levy that is being spent on setting up recycling schemes . |