Example sentences of "government [vb -s] [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are clinics attached to all the university and large municipal hospitals , but the government has shut down the local clinics because they deny that there is any problem . |
| 2 | Two special spending programmes , worth ¥23.9 trillion ( $114 billion ) , announced in the past year , have helped ward off full-blown recession , and the government has propped up the stockmarket by shovelling post-office savings money into it . |
| 3 | ‘ I do n't argue the pros and cons of public or private investment per se , but in view of the problems that have arisen it seems to me that if the Government has talked up the price by making rather loud commitments to potential voters , perhaps the Government should spend some of our money overcoming those problems , ’ he said . |
| 4 | It would require two million for the costs to be covered , so the Spanish government has to make up the shortfall . |
| 5 | The government wants to speed up the vetting of new materials in dentistry . |
| 6 | Also , says Perera , the government tends to play down the importance of prevention and of synergism ( different chemicals in the environment working together ) , while they call for more epidemiology — or , as many environmentalists put it , ‘ counting the bodies ’ . |
| 7 | Brazil 's Environment Secretary , Flavio Perri , has announced that the government intends to open up the Amazon to economic exploitation in a " sustainable , nondestructive way " and that cattle-raising , mining and agriculture would all be considered . |
| 8 | The government expects to wind down the Department of Energy after the next election . |
| 9 | We can also recognise , as we did , at an , on an earlier paper that it is national government policy and increasingly so , to encourage the development of capital schemes , borrowing , we noted that in relation to transport and the availability of S C A's I think it 's also right to say that the government does set down the level of borrowing which can be entered into in in any one year , that is the credit approvals are controlled by the government and they do make them available to the County Council and to district Councils , so in a sense , the government is both saying that we expect borrowing to be a feature of a budget and also that we want to control , and restrict the amount of money that can be borrowed through the amount of credit approvals . |
| 10 | ‘ If this property boom suddenly collapses , or if the government decides to jack up the bank rate to curb consumer spending , then you might find your loans withdrawn , in which case you 'd have a serious cash-flow problem on your hands . ’ |