Example sentences of "the government [vb -s] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Wallace said : ‘ While the Government continues a policy of indifference and inaction , over 120,000 more individuals , families and households are now suffering the misery of unemployment . ’ |
| 2 | Now er in Amendment twenty-seven the Government proposes a slightly different procedures or a more explicit procedure for the er for er for as to how these appointments shall be made . |
| 3 | In the first place , although Yugoslavia has a low per capita product ( about $2,000 ) , the government takes a large share of its total product . |
| 4 | In the determination of its grant to local authorities the government uses a complex formula which tries to take into account the extent of need for the various services . |
| 5 | EVERY Christmas the Government launches a new drink-driving offensive . |
| 6 | Introduce fixed-term Parliament of four years , with a known date for the next election , subject to an earlier election only if the government loses a special ‘ explicit ’ vote of no confidence . |
| 7 | Every time the Government does a bit and waits to see if it works , by the time it finds out that it has n't done , it needs to do still more . |
| 8 | The Government seeks a progressive raising of standards of attainment . |
| 9 | In order to illustrate the effects of taxation , let us suppose that the government imposes a tax on labour employed in the retail sector , so that and become and , respectively . |
| 10 | Suppose the government imposes a profits tax on a monopolist : what effect would this have on the monopolist 's output decision ? |
| 11 | Whether or not the private sector does use resources more productively on average than the government remains a contentious issue . |
| 12 | In addition , the Government plans a partial offset with the raising of the lowest rate band for the allowance from £2,500 to £3,000 . |
| 13 | With time , the government grants a De Facto recognition by installing running water , electricity , and by paving the roads . |
| 14 | The government blames a combination of factors , including an increase in the number of insects and a dry summer , for the poor state of the country 's 330,000 hectares of woodland . |
| 15 | The Government retains a golden ( or " master " ) share in the newly-floated company which confers rights restricting other shareholders or potential shareholders from acquiring controlling stakes in the company for a period of years or indefinitely . |
| 16 | Even taking a harder line with the generators is fraught with difficulty while the Government retains a 40 per cent stake in both National Power and PowerGen . |
| 17 | So the government risks a revolt by those rural stalwarts who do much of the legwork during general elections , as well as years of ill-mannered squabbles as the two sets of councillors argue their worth to the commission . |
| 18 | I can not understand how the Government sends a man out to fight us , as it did General Miles , and then breaks his word . |
| 19 | To overcome this , the Government suggests a system , similar to that now operating in Scotland , under which children accompanied by an adult can be in licensed premises which have a Children 's Certificate where food and non-alcoholic beverages are also available . |
| 20 | Unless and until the Government gives a lead by bringing down interest rates generally . |
| 21 | Keith Geddes , leader of the Lothian Labour group , said legal opinion showed that local authorities would be justified in conducting a referendum on a firm proposal at the stage when the Government publishes a white paper on the future of water and sewerage services . |
| 22 | So long as the government runs a huge budget deficit , approaching 9% of GDP this year , inflation threatens to return . |
| 23 | Whenever the government runs a budget deficit , it will have to finance that deficit by borrowing . |
| 24 | Even when the government runs a budget surplus the Bank of England will still have to manage the national debt ( the accumulated borrowing from the past ) . |
| 25 | Money supply will rise if ( a ) banks choose to hold a lower liquidity ratio and thus create more credit for an existing amount of liquidity ; ( b ) there is a total currency flow surplus ; ( c ) the government runs a PSBR and finances it by borrowing from the banking sector or from abroad ; ( d ) the government switches its method of financing the national debt to borrowing from the banking sector or from abroad . |
| 26 | If the government puts a tax on employers for every worker they employ , who pays — the employers ? |
| 27 | As well , the Tigers ' chief political adviser , Mr Anton Balasingham , said the guerrillas would not contest elections until the government drops a constitutional amendment requiring election candidates to swear an oath of allegiance to a unitary state . |
| 28 | The government regulates a great many aspects of economic and social life to a greater or lesser extent , but some areas of regulatory activity generate much more judicial activity than others . |
| 29 | The government places a statutory responsibility on local authorities to provide certain services and is not indifferent to the general level of service in localities . |
| 30 | The government places a reservation value of £10 an acre on the land . |