Example sentences of "the government 's [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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1 | Palmerston took the defeat as a vote of no confidence and tendered the Government 's resignation to the Queen on 21st February , 1858 , and she immediately asked Lord Derby to form the new Government . |
2 | He said the White Paper failed to indicate the Government 's attitude to the judges ' response to the Green Papers . |
3 | Speaking his mind about the medical profession , even waging war on the architectural establishment , was a very different matter from denouncing the government 's attitude to pollution . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | New Scientist mourned the decay of that Victorian exuberance , the seaside pier , described Eire as a hive of electronic industry and indicated foreboding about the government 's attitude to forking out money for wave power schemes , at the same time laying out all the arguments for and against test-tube babies . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | Liffe chief executive Michael Jenkins warns that , in his personal view , the Government 's attitude to Europe is critical : ‘ If we sit on the outside , then it will be difficult for London to retain its position . ’ |
8 | Judith Church , Health and Safety Officer of the Manufacturing , Science and Finance Union summed up the government 's attitude to health and safety as : |
9 | Mary Warnock provides a scathing analysis of the government 's attitude to higher education when she writes of the contempt that the government has for universities and their staff : |
10 | Several factors have contributed to this , but the government 's attitude to the unemployed has been the most crucial factor . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | Magistrates say they 're worried the government 's attitude to cautioning may mean an end to this local initiative . |
13 | To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what is the Government 's attitude to an international conference on Cyprus early next year . |
14 | What is the Government 's attitude to Labour 's proposal for a defence diversification agency , bearing in mind that if it were so easy to create jobs through a Government agency , it is surprising that Labour has always left behind more unemployed than when it took office . |
15 | I am concerned about the Government 's attitude to many things European , and certainly to the whole area of environmental protection . |
16 | But having 22,000 students milling around my city , I am delighted about the Government 's attitude to student discounts and particularly to the student gap , as it is called — the three months which often used to cause problems under the old community charge arrangements . |
17 | I hope that the Minister is able to deny newspaper reports about the Government 's attitude to safety . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | The moves seemed to mark a major change in the government 's attitude to the conflict . |
20 | But re-shuffle or not , Britain 's Euro-Commissioner , Sir Leon Brittain , says there must be a major overhaul of the Government 's attitude to Europe . |
21 | The government 's obligation to " Buy Argentine " was suspended by decree on Oct. 9 . |
22 | The divergence of view between Sandys and the military establishment was illustrated by the Government 's over-reaction to a talk given to the Royal United Services Institute by General Sir John Cowley , the Controller of Munitions in the Ministry of Supply , in November 1959 . |
23 | THERE have been a number of articles and letters published recently about North-East drift-net fishery for salmon , which suggest that the Government 's proposal to phase out this fishery is unreasonable and that it is based on political expediency under pressure from owners of rod fisheries . |
24 | It is not yet clear whether this signals a more general change in the government 's approach to the funding of education . |
25 | Its main sections dealt with the government 's approach to the environment ( nationally , at the European level and globally ) , the nature and effects of the greenhouse effect , environmental problems in both rural and urban areas ( especially in relation to land-use matters ) , pollution control and enhancing awareness of environmental matters . |
26 | ‘ Much of the Government 's approach to crime helps to make little crooks bigger criminals . |
27 | Each year the Committee receives nearly a thousand documents from Brussels , with helpful explanatory memoranda from the Government which summarize for each its nature and likely effect , the Government 's approach to it , and the prospective timing of its progress in Brussels and Strasbourg . |
28 | As controller of the Audit Commission before taking over at the helm of the CBI last year , Mr Davies said he had first had experience of the Government 's approach to industry and commerce . |
29 | Is he concerned about the rewards for that achievement — the brutal loss of employment , the economic devastation of the coalfields , the adverse effect on our balance of payments , which will get worse , the excessive and inevitable energy dependence , and the deceitful diversion of funds from the coalfields as a result of the Government 's approach to the European money that should be available to us ? |
30 | ’ Our Farming Future ’ has been widely acknowledged as a realistic and helpful statement of the Government 's approach to the challenges facing the farming industry in the 1990s . |