Example sentences of "government do [adv] [vb infin] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 However , the Government do not appear to be currently giving any commitment to provide funds or even to give British Rail the necessary borrowing authority .
2 Is not it really the case that the Government do not care about training , that we have a disastrous training record and that it is high time that we had a Labour Government to tackle the problems ?
3 Will the Prime Minister tell us why Chancellor Kohl and his fellow Conservative Heads of Government do not agree with him that , by adopting the social chapter , they will jeopardise jobs ?
4 By saying they 'll shoot Liam Shakespeare if the Government do n't agree by Friday .
5 The Government did however put in a £200 million investment programme over a four-year period ( the previous annual average , apart from one missile development programme , had been £5 million ) .
6 There s concern from backbenchers that the Government did n't wait for todays report before making last weeks announcement .
7 The one occasion on which the Government did not cheat on the payments was earlier this year and we hoped that it had something to do with the Adjournment debate .
8 That they were usually successful indicates that the thieves understood the workings of the colonial bureaucracy , and that government did not function in the way intended by higher officials .
9 You stated that the government did not care about what had happened to Kelly because she was Scottish .
10 What the government did not bargain for was the public outrage and the massive support given to the demonstrations .
11 Thailand 's four labour congresses and unions representing state utility workers and other service sectors threatened to stage a general strike if the government did not accede to the dockworkers ' demands .
12 Since government did not pay for the expenses of witnesses , this cost also fell on the cattle owner .
13 In fact the new government did not develop as a British creature and , in the words of one historian , Nikki Keddie , it marked a " turning point in Iranian history " .
14 Legislation had been passed , at the height of the bubble , to stop the creation of new joint-stock companies , which ruled out one of the ways in which the British had organized their expansion overseas , Walpole , the Prime Minister who picked up the pieces after the collapse , was first of all concerned to make sure that the King and his government did not run into any more trouble , which meant a programme of no new taxes , no wars , no new assertion of authority , and much less expansion than either before or after .
15 Social issues were not prominent in the election campaign , with the exception of education , on which the Nonconformists waged a determined anti-Conservative campaign , and land reform , The Liberal government did not come into office committed to a clear social reform policy .
16 However , the government did not obtain from the ANC any commitment to end strikes and boycotts by blacks in protest at working conditions .
17 The government did not agree with these proposals , Instead they introduced a requirement to appoint one officer responsible for reviewing the propriety and legality of council business ( the ‘ monitoring officer ’ ) and another responsible for the management of council services ( Local Government and Housing Act 1989 : clauses 4 and 5 ) .
18 Such was the logic of coalition when the balance of the government did not correspond to the balance of parliament .
19 They got a shock when , two years ago , Mr Nicholas Ridley told Parliament flatly that ’ the government does not stand behind local-authority debt ’ .
20 Since the Danish Government does not intend to had another referendum before the summer of 1993 , there is at the moment of writing some time left for cool deliberation by parliamentarians as well as by the public they serve .
21 They were also the most likely to say the Government does not care about education ( 92 pc compared with 66pc ) .
22 I call upon you to maintain and improve that standard , to ensure that this government does not succeed in its attempt to deny working people the most valuable asset they can attain , knowledge .
23 He bemoaned the recession , and said : ’ The government does not appear to be aware of the seriousness of the situation , especially with respect to smaller builders who are on short term jobs .
24 The Conservative Government does not believe in the need for a broadly educated workforce .
25 For this Government does not seem to .
26 It must be said , however , that this is a nightmare scenario which the Government does not subscribe to .
27 But the more you try and get things done , the more you realize that the government does n't care at all , apart from making a profit .
28 Now that 's something that erm particularly that last point , that audit committees that are established in most efficient companies want to look at and I come back to the point that audit ought to be looked at as something that assists companies in efficiency as well as a mechanism for detecting fraud and yet the government does n't appear to be examining that .
29 The British Government does n't believe in local government .
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