Example sentences of "government [vb past] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1989–90 the financial assistance from central government amounted to £9M . |
| 2 | The failure of the Royal Commission 's own research to support their advocacy of large-scale units of local government led to scepticism in the 1970s as opinion swung away from a belief in bigness as a correlate of efficiency and progress . |
| 3 | Talks took place between China and Taiwan for the first time since the Communists took control of China in 1949 and the former Nationalist government fled to Taiwan . |
| 4 | The Temporary Provisions had been adopted by the Legislative Yuan in 1948 , just before the Nationalist government fled to Taiwan . |
| 5 | The Lord 's vote had reverberations along the corridor at Westminster , a number of MP s hitherto quietly concerned about privatization now went public , they thought the Lords vote would take the sting out of the sell off because B R would win most of the bids , ministers vowed to defy the rebels , but just before the bill left the Lords the Government seemed to cave in . |
| 6 | When Clarke wanted to prove the adequacy of CSM 's resources to do its work he cited the fact that , in the three years since the government came to office in 1979 , these had risen from £1.1 to £1.2 million a year — a cut in real terms , according to the retail price index , of well over 20 per cent . |
| 7 | Further to the question from my right hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham , Sparkbrook ( Mr. Hattersley ) , and given the obvious confusion among Ministers about the implications of their electoral promises for the future level of value added tax , can the Leader of the House conjure up the actual figure for value added tax when his Government came to office in June 1979 , and the level now as they go out of office ? |
| 8 | It has benefited especially from the growth in the liberalisation of air services and , as a result , three times as many passengers now use the airport as when the Government came to office . |
| 9 | Will he now give us the figures for the whole period since 1979 , when the Government came to office ? |
| 10 | That is what we in Britain must do : we must catch up , and then we must compete effectively as we have not done since the present Government came to office . |
| 11 | We would all like to hear about a far larger programme than any he has managed to announce since the Government came to office ; otherwise , they stand convicted of hypocrisy and bad faith . |
| 12 | The Government came to office in 1979 , when my constituency , Ashton-under-Lyne , was a manufacturing area with a level of prosperity higher than the national average . |
| 13 | When Narasimha Rao 's Congress ( I ) government came to office in mid-1991 it was faced with a US$70,000 million foreign debt burden and a long-standing foreign-exchange crisis which had continued despite receipt of a substantial IMF package in January [ see p. 38006 ] . |
| 14 | He said : ‘ There has been an unacceptable increase in the crime figures year by year since this Conservative government came to office in 1979 . |
| 15 | There have , for example , been 29 changes in the method of computing the unemployment figures since the present Government came to power , so that the total number of people out of work has fallen by a far greater amount in appearance than in reality . |
| 16 | He was 20 when the Thatcher government came to power . |
| 17 | Richard Norton-Taylor adds : Contingency plans for the use of troops in ambulance disputes were drawn up shortly after the Government came to power in 1979 , Whitehall documents show . |
| 18 | Richard Norton-Taylor adds : Contingency plans for the use of troops in ambulance disputes were drawn up shortly after the Government came to power in 1979 , Whitehall documents show . |
| 19 | When the Socialist government came to power there was a furious public row . |
| 20 | When Margaret Thatcher 's first government came to power there were 14.3m vehicles on the road — there are now more than 19.7m . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , the offer had been made , and at the end of the war , when a Labour government came to power , there was no going back on it . |
| 22 | And though the new government came to power threatening to precipitate a European crisis over a detested farm deal that had been negotiated between America and the EC , only three of the 29 ministers of the new government are anti-Maastricht . |
| 23 | ‘ Communication in Transition : Progress and Pitfalls ’ was the provocative title of a seminar held in Chile earlier this year — just 18 months after President Patricio Aylwin 's democratic government came to power . |
| 24 | The Royal Commission report was published in the same year as Margaret Thatcher 's Conservative government came to power . |
| 25 | The Thatcher government came to power in 1979 deeply suspicious of the size of the public sector and the levels of public expenditure . |
| 26 | Since this Government came to power , while the nation 's trade has slipped heavily into deficit , Scotch Whisky export earnings have risen from around £702 million in 1979 to £1,958 million in 1992 . |
| 27 | It demonstrates clearly the enormous burden of indirect taxation that has been placed on the shoulders of millions of families since the Government came to power . |
| 28 | That means that since this Government came to power , up to the end of March 1990 , a total of 117,000 new homes were built . |
| 29 | It is worth noticing that since the Government came to power , pensioners ' income from savings has risen by 8.6 per cent . |
| 30 | Since 1979 , when the Government came to power , coal imports have increased from 4 million tonnes to 19 millions tonnes , an increase of 346 per cent. , which has had the effect of wiping out the coal fields of south Wales , damaging our balance of payments , costing the taxpayer £8,500 for every one of the tens of thousands of unemployed miners , and making us dreadfully dependent on foreign supplies . |