Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] the present government " in BNC.
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| 1 | Were not the training and enterprise councils , the employment training programme and the youth training programme all the brainchilds of the present Government ? |
| 2 | What was unique about the BBC governors in the eighties was that you had Rees-Mogg as vice-chairman and Stuart Young as chairman — two open , committed supporters of the present Government . |
| 3 | It 's the only , and it 's only because , and this is , I mean , having to understand why Government , surely the majority of supporters of the present Government would n't approve of this . |
| 4 | He has one daughter , married to a well-known Politician — Vivian Carolan , who is Minister of Fine Arts in the present government . |
| 5 | However there are thousands and thousands of other people who are suffering silently because of the policies of the present government . |
| 6 | Mr. Gow : While recognising the undoubted right of all members of the General Synod to deeply held views for or against the policies of the present Government , would it be helpful if my right Hon. Friend were to point out to the General Synod that its reputation would be enhanced if its members , when in Synod , devoted more time to matters spiritual than to matter political ? |
| 7 | that does mean balancing the books , and it does mean moving away from some of the crazy policies of the present government , who have of course encouraged people and companies to avoid paying tax . |
| 8 | These arguments have assumed increasing significance given the general economic situation and the strategies of the present government . |
| 9 | The motion states : ‘ To recruit almost exclusively from the narrow minority group of Guardian readers whose views are predominantly leftwing is contrary to the spirit of the obligations of political balance in broadcasting and is an explanation of the self-righteous and unctuous hostility of broadcasters towards the present Government . ’ |
| 10 | But there were three serious reservations about the present Government being offered an unprecedented fourth term of office . |
| 11 | ‘ The days of the present Government are numbered . |
| 12 | In the British system of local government finance , with the wonderful inimitable reforms of the present government , er we have gone from a situation in which er the central government financed about , between forty five and fifty percent of local expenditure to a situation where the central government finances about eighty five percent , I think between eighty five and ninety percent of local spending . |
| 13 | But let us turn to specific details of the present government 's technological achievements . |
| 14 | Fiscal reformers — including members of the present government — have argued for years that it should be . |
| 15 | That will leave the Secretary of State for Energy free to do as he pleases : to follow the precedent set by other ministers in the present government by casting aside the inspector 's advice on the grounds of national need ; or to use the report as a ‘ do n't blame me ’ rubber stamp for the project . |