Example sentences of "by [art] government [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were also rumours that Ford had now taken its stake up to the maximum 15 per cent allowed under the golden share held in Jaguar by the Government since its privatisation in 1984 . |
| 2 | Should not those figures be considered alongside the 352 million lost days which have been engineered by the Government since 1979 ? |
| 3 | Restructuring grant has been paid by the Government since 1987 . |
| 4 | Its reluctance is largely a result of the strict financial regime imposed by the government as part of its general campaign to improve efficiency in the public sector and under which all rail improvements have to demonstrate an 8% return on the capital before approval is granted . |
| 5 | Geothermal power ( heat from rocks ) is a technology that is still undergoing research in this country and which is seen by the Government as an energy longshot . |
| 6 | There is certainly no evidence of nationalisation being seen , or used in practice , by the government as a takeover of the commanding heights of the economy from which economic planning could be directed . |
| 7 | Western countries have handed over more than $1 billion in aid , mainly as food , which is sold by the government as its main source of revenue . |
| 8 | A Hambledon CC account book dating from the late 1700s has been accepted by the government as payment in lieu of inheritance tax . |
| 9 | These stated explicitly that the Government would last only for the emergency , and that any subsequent elections would be fought not by the Government as a whole but by the parties . |
| 10 | In a war presented by the government as a struggle between democracy and dictatorship , it was seen as essential that the normal political processes should continue , so the regular pattern of elections went on . |
| 11 | The reasons for not pursuing a more radical course were given by the government as the increased burden of compliance placed on companies , the absence of clear criteria for what constitutes an abuse of market power giving rise to uncertainty for business ( and the possible consequent ‘ chilling effect ’ on competitive behaviour ) , and the suggestion that a prohibition system would bite on fewer market situations than present legislation . |
| 12 | It is seen by the government as a measure which makes more people pay directly for local services and which will increase local accountability . |
| 13 | The price intellectuals pay is that they are dependent on the government for both professional and financial recognition , since ‘ the most important definition of an intellectual is that he should be recognised by the government as such ’ ( Riding : 1986 , p. 428 ) . |
| 14 | This policy was adopted by the government as part of its general economic strategy to cut public expenditure and meant that local authorities could only exceed a predetermined level of spending on higher education if they found the additional sums of money from the rates . |
| 15 | The poll tax , officially called the Community Charge , has been hailed by the Government as a massive step forward in promoting local democracy . |
| 16 | A communiqué released on April 15 , allegedly by a group of drug traffickers opposed to Escobar 's recent " terrorist acts " , was claimed by the government as evidence of a split in the leadership of the drug cartels . |
| 17 | The increased spending was largely allocated to government salaries , to land purchases , seen by the government as a means of stimulating the local economy , and to an expected increase in defence spending . |
| 18 | The agreement , which would supersede a two-year virtual wage freeze [ see p. 36241 ] , was in line with the ceiling called for by the government as part of its economic programme . |
| 19 | Ten parts of South Africa ( not necessarily contiguous geographical entities but based on ethnic groupings ) have been designated by the government as " homelands " for Africans ; four of these have been declared independent sovereign states but are recognized only by South Africa and by each other ; the remainder are at various stages of " self-government " . |
| 20 | Ten parts of South Africa ( not necessarily contiguous geographical entities but based on ethnic groupings ) have been designated by the government as " homelands " for Africans ; four of these ( Bophuthatswana , Ciskei , Transkei and Venda ) have been declared independent sovereign states but are recognized only by South Africa and each other ; the remainder ( Gazankulu , KaNgwane , KwaNdbele , KwaZulu , Lebowa and Qwaqwa ) are at various stages of " self-government " . |
| 21 | The Front for the Defence of Malagasy Socialism ( FMSM — an alliance led by Jérôme Marojama Razanabahiny of Vonjy ) , was set up by the government as a counterweight to the new opposition parties . |
| 22 | National Resistance Movement ( NRM , Yoweri Museveni l. , the political wing of the National Resistance Army which took power in January 1986 ; regarded by the government as a national movement rather than a political party ) . |
| 23 | Ramón " Macoris " Pérez Martínez was dismissed by the government as head of the state electricity board , as reported on Aug. 16 . |
| 24 | Major new initiatives , some subsequently reversed , were announced during October by the government as part of its privatization programme [ for which see pp. 38007 ; 38289 ] . |
| 25 | Free Aceh Movement ( described by the government as the Security Disturbance Movement , GPK ) . |
| 26 | Claims by FORD members at a press conference on Jan. 11 that a military coup was being prepared to stifle the democracy movement were dismissed by the government as " malicious rumours " . |
| 27 | Fresh efforts to persuade Iraq to sell oil under the terms of UN Resolutions 706 and 712 [ see pp. 38406 ; 38452 ] , rejected by the government as an infringement of Iraqi sovereignty , were prompted by renewed concern over the country 's food and medical crisis [ see pp. 38452 ; 38548 ; 38597 ; 38696 ] . |
| 28 | The elections had been promoted by the government as a popular endorsement of democracy and rejection of violence . |
| 29 | In all the major states of Europe it was still made not even by the government as a whole but by a small group within it — the chief minister and foreign minister , supplemented according to circumstances and personalities by those for war , colonies or other concerned departments — with the support or at least the acquiescence of the monarch . |
| 30 | Described by the government as a Japanese cultural tradition , the consumption of whale meat only started after the second world war , when it filled a dietary gap . |