Example sentences of "government [vb -s] [to-vb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | If the government has to make a decision on the socially efficient level of pollution anyway , it may be simpler to regulate the quantity directly . |
2 | Er , as I said the government has already accepted when we introduced the legislation last year in the criminal justice act on money laundering , that there are far wider er interests and fidrer fi far wider implications than there have been ever before and I think the government needs to do a little bit more to show that it is aware of international implications and the sheer scale of what we 're dealing with and er I touched earlier on the question of indemnity , er perhaps the minister could specifically address that point . |
3 | The government refuses to release a Scotland Yard report on the death , and is instead running its own commission of inquiry . |
4 | Environment Minister Lord Strathclyde announced Government plans to introduce a licensing scheme regulating the release of captive-born barn owls into the wild . |
5 | The Swedish government plans to introduce a tax on carbon emissions in 1991 , at a rate of $150 per tonne of carbon . |
6 | Over 70,000 members of the Public Service Alliance of Canada ( PSAC ) held a nine-day strike ending on Sept. 18 to oppose government plans to impose a pay freeze in the current year and to place a ceiling of 3 per cent on pay increases in each of the following two years . |
7 | French government plans to build a road tunnel through the Pyrenees have been blocked by a court ruling . |
8 | Last year a court blocked government plans to build a road tunnel through the Aspe valley , which would have threatened the bears ' habitat [ see ED 65/66 ] . |
9 | The Government intends to hold a competition for the ‘ fastlink ’ road if investors are found . |
10 | The government intends to publish a plan by the end of April for closing down all of the country 's uranium mines . |
11 | On waste , the government intends to introduce a system of credits designed to ensure that local authorities get on target to meet the goal of 25 per cent recycling of household waste by 2000 . |
12 | The government hopes to pick a winner in May but the selection could be delayed . |
13 | According to McKee , the government expects to award a contract by October , with takeover planned for next April . |