Example sentences of "government [unc] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a similar statement of support for the Government 's deregulation of the private sector had been made in 1979 , there would have been no decline — but there was , because that sector continued to feel under threat from the Opposition . |
| 2 | ‘ I did n't think I was speculating ’ she said in a rebuke to the Government 's attitude towards the advertised high-return , low-risk investment offered by Barlow Clowes . |
| 3 | Within a year there had been a shift in the Government 's attitude towards the Corporation . |
| 4 | In the light of those representations will he reconsider the Government 's attitude towards the 25 per cent . |
| 5 | He said the White Paper failed to indicate the Government 's attitude to the judges ' response to the Green Papers . |
| 6 | I said that I believed it would now be right to give some indication of the Government 's attitude to the building of a tunnel . |
| 7 | If they were to behave sensibly , the railwaymen could count upon public sympathy , for there is widespread unease about the Government 's attitude to the railways . |
| 8 | Several factors have contributed to this , but the government 's attitude to the unemployed has been the most crucial factor . |
| 9 | Mr. Thomas Graham ( Renfrew , West and Inverclyde ) : The new clause offers Scottish people the opportunity to have at least some confidence in the Government 's attitude to the privatisation of the bus service . |
| 10 | Godoy 's supporters opposed such a conciliatory stance to the Sandinistas and saw the return of properties to their original owners as a test of the government 's attitude to the private sector . |
| 11 | The moves seemed to mark a major change in the government 's attitude to the conflict . |
| 12 | Guided by its recent experience Quit has set as medium term goals adult smoking prevalences of 22% in 1994 and 18% in 1997 compared with the British government 's goal in The Health of the Nation of 20% in 2000 . |
| 13 | It means that those shops are no longer viable and we condemn the Government 's inaction on the reform of the Shops Act 1950 . |
| 14 | However , the government 's spokesman on the Bill in its passage through the House of Lords , Lord Caithness , tried to give assurances that there was virtually no possibility that a local authority nor its librarians were in danger of falling foul of the Act by simply stocking homosexual material as part of the library service to the public . |
| 15 | First , there is the utter incompetence of the Government 's management of the economy ; secondly , there are its housing policies , described in The Independent as ’ a disaster waiting to happen ’ . |
| 16 | But Labour leader John Smith , in another onslaught against the Government 's management of the economy , claimed that the overall trade deficit was ‘ dangerously high ’ . |
| 17 | And opinion polls show the number of voters satisfied with the Government 's management of the country has fallen to its lowest level since November 1990 . |
| 18 | In the West Indies pressures on land had already become intense ; the proprietors were replaced by royal governors , and external danger made the government 's support for the islands essential . |
| 19 | If the government 's support for the landowning nobility perpetuated its age-old conflict with the peasantry , the direct corollary of its close alliance with industrial employers was confrontation with labour . |
| 20 | His evidence was that he read the report on the night that he received it and was — as others would have been — shocked to find that the parliamentary statements relating to the government 's support for the Nigerians were demonstrably false . |
| 21 | Can he give any indication of whether at that meeting he expressed the British Government 's support for the United Nations human rights sub-commission report in relation to the expressions of concern about the violations of human rights in Tibet , and what proposals did he make to help the many thousands who have been refugees from Tibet in the past 30 years ? |
| 22 | Mr Lang said that Scottish Office funding for the laboratory complex was firm evidence of the Government 's support for the future importance of science and technology . |
| 23 | The National Assembly , however , on Jan. 16 approved the use of force to liberate Kuwait [ see p. 37941 ] and after the outbreak of war under UN auspices the government 's support of the US-led coalition won widespread public and party support ( except from the PCF — ibid . ) . |
| 24 | Now , given that the government 's support of the idea of Strasbourg as being a permanent place of meeting for the European parliament . |
| 25 | The government 's position on the structure of higher education was articulated publicly for the first time by Crosland in his famous speech at Woolwich Polytechnic in 1965 , in which he declared the government 's acceptance of the need for a ‘ system based on the twin traditions which have created our present higher institutions ’ . |
| 26 | As to the Government 's position on the green form scheme , my noble and learned Friend the Lord Chancellor and my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State said that instead of an arrangement unique to the immigration appellate system , whereby public funds finance two sources of free advice — UKIAS and green form — they were considering concentrating the provision of free advice through UKIAS , so that only that organisation would be publicly funded to give advice . |
| 27 | Amnesty International claimed on Nov. 1 that some 800 Yemenis had been detained , tortured and ill-treated by Saudi troops since August " for no apparent reason other than their nationality , or their suspected opposition to the Saudi Arabian government 's position on the Gulf crisis " . |
| 28 | Madame Speaker , the Government 's position on the substance of the matter remains unchanged ’ … blah , blah , blah . |
| 29 | I think it right … to explain that Government 's position in the light of that advice … |
| 30 | Mr Parkinson is to defend the Government 's stand at the Conservative Party conference next week . |