Example sentences of "government [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Particularly noted is the case of the former Federal Republic of Germany ( FRG ) , where local governments raise a quarter of their income from charging , mostly through environment and public health levies . |
| 2 | The university welcomes them as a source of income ; some students are funded by their own governments to obtain a doctorate and enter public service . |
| 3 | On European monetary union , it seems to me that it has long been the cherished aim of Conservative Governments to find a means by which we could control the value of our currency — to make it predictable in its exchange rate , as it was for much of the 19th century . |
| 4 | In practice , governments face a conflict between the objectives of equity and efficiency . |
| 5 | Unless governments accept a devaluation of their currencies against the D-mark , they have limited room to cut interest rates to revive flagging demand . |
| 6 | In this way , Axis governments anticipated a Pacific war that had been studied by only a few individuals in the Allies ' interest . |
| 7 | On May 26 , 1989 , the Belau and US governments signed a series of subsidiary agreements in Guam on additional economic and social aid as an incentive for the population of Belau to ratify the compact of free association which had been negotiated in 1982 . |
| 8 | Britain 's low rating is mainly due to the refusal of successive governments to contemplate a Freedom of Information Act , which would give journalists and others a legal right of access to documents prepared by state officials . |
| 9 | However , the IDB President , Enrique Iglesias ( Uruguay ) , stated that Latin American countries were imbued with a " new realism " and were prepared to readjust their economies and welcomed the debt reduction plan of United States Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady [ see pp. 36541-42 ; 37016-17 ; for Mexican and Venezuelan debt reduction agreements under Brady plan see pp. 37243 ; 37313 respectively ] as a recognition that governments needed a breathing space to introduce long-term adjustment policies . |
| 10 | To undertake such intervention , governments needed a degree of independence or autonomy from any particular branch or fraction of capital . |
| 11 | But Bonn 's bureaucrats like their idyll on the Rhine , and several west German Land governments oppose a move . |
| 12 | Mr Karel Van Miert , the Transport Commissioner , is asking member governments to approve a plan which would leave passenger services largely in the hands of state-owned monopolies but open up freight services to competition by permitting private operators to pay for the use of publicly-owned tracks . |
| 13 | Senior commission officials say that it is up to national governments to get a move on . |
| 14 | He also underwent the unique experience of being asked by successive governments to take a hand in both the nationalisation of British Aerospace and its subsequent return to the private sector . |
| 15 | The government says schools like Pate 's are better-off out of local authority control … but admit that the school has had it 's hands tied by the rules that say they ca n't spend more on teachers than the county council will allow.The governments proposing a review of the regulations system in 1994 but for teachers at Pate 's who 're facing redundancy and pupils a drop in educational standards this could be too long a wait . |
| 16 | Thus , there is in these Articles , a recognition that individual governments have a role to play in combating the vagaries of the economic system within their own boundaries . |
| 17 | Nobody now supposes that political processes begin and end with elections , or that elected governments have a monopoly of political power . |
| 18 | Supposing the Government made a grant to starving nations of £1,000 million on condition that they bought food from us to that value , what would be the effect ? |
| 19 | And he adds : ‘ The Government made a mistake . |
| 20 | In an attempt to allay some of these fears , the government made a number of concessions during the report stage of the Bill : |
| 21 | It was encouraging last year , that when some Cycladic antiquities were being sold at Sotheby 's , the Greek government made a protest and had some impact on that sale . |
| 22 | From I87 1 the Japanese government made a series of moves aimed at incorporating the islands into the national administrative framework , but these unilateral steps were strongly contested by the Chinese , who also claimed suzerainty . |
| 23 | In its White Paper , the government made a commitment to press for European minimum standards for domestic appliances . |
| 24 | The French ports have been particularly vociferous in pressing for compensation and in January 1986 the French government made a package of aid available to Calais , Boulogne , Dunkirk and Dieppe to upgrade their deep water and other maritime facilities and to diversify their local economies . |
| 25 | I mean I ca n't see the government allowing a building society to actually get into erm er a case of insolvency , I think it , the , the , I think the Building Society Association would force a merger , but it may be on very poor terms or er you know , whatever . |
| 26 | If the central government plays a role purely in terms of revenue raising , then an unconditional grant would seem the most appropriate instrument from the point of view of benefiting the recipient local authority . |
| 27 | In Canada , where the government agreed a $2 million annual grant in 1977 , the Canadian Labour Congress decided only to accept the money on a ‘ no strings ’ basis , taking its traditional view that labour education must be controlled by labour . |
| 28 | The government agreed a mid-year package of economic measures in May 1991 . |
| 29 | On April 23 the government tabled a bill providing for indemnity against prosecution , detention or arrest for political activists — including exiles who wished to return home — facing criminal or civil charges . |
| 30 | During the war the Coalition government produced a plan to reorganise completely the chaotic system of hospital finance and provision . |