Example sentences of "government do [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I am afraid that the Government do not have straight in their head the idea that the public will be determined , through a different Government , to obtain proper redress for their complaints against excessive prices or dirty little ideas such as the 0898 service , which was introduced six years ago after the privatisation of British Telecom . |
| 32 | Although there is an assumption that most of those people are little old ladies who live in the circumstances that I described earlier , I suspect that we do not really know who the beneficiaries will be , but if the Government do not know , they should tell us . |
| 33 | If there 's a small bonus then which in fact pays the petrol for the assignment probably , er providing the Government do n't put another twenty P on a litre or gallon or whatever . |
| 34 | By saying they 'll shoot Liam Shakespeare if the Government do n't agree by Friday . |
| 35 | The government do n't insist employers comply with the law , they encourage the law to be ignored . |
| 36 | The Government did however put in a £200 million investment programme over a four-year period ( the previous annual average , apart from one missile development programme , had been £5 million ) . |
| 37 | The government did no intend then to be used in order to restore to the districts responsibilities they had lost to the counties , but many districts hoped this would be possible . |
| 38 | This claim gave rise to much discussion in the local and national Press , and the Portuguese Government did eventually settle the claim in full in 1853 . |
| 39 | As long as power oscillated between two evenly-balanced parties , who shared more or less the whole of the vote , the election of a minority government did n't matter too much . |
| 40 | I mean , you can say for example that the Government did n't bring in registration , licensing of food premises , only brought in a register . |
| 41 | ‘ We want everyone to be licensed , but the Government did n't think it necessary . |
| 42 | At the time the government did n't expect a mass suicide . |
| 43 | IT 'S astonishing that our government did n't admit that the German bank spent £17 billion trying to prop up the pound and the Italian lira during the recent crisis . |
| 44 | wanted control on nuclear weapons , or wanted to abolish nuclear weapons but they the the Labour government did n't get in on that basis so they had to modify their and I mean as |
| 45 | The British government did n't seem to have a coherent policy for dealing with the hostage situation , they just wanted to teach the kidnappers a lesson . |
| 46 | Your government did n't have any courage then to back up it 's own man , and force through some changes , and so I do n't know what your policy is , it seems to change every couple of years . |
| 47 | There s concern from backbenchers that the Government did n't wait for todays report before making last weeks announcement . |
| 48 | The government did not choose the firms ; it simply changed legal and tax rules to help mergers . |
| 49 | The Government did not honour this commitment when unemployment benefit became taxable in July 1982 . |
| 50 | The FUT president Fausto Dután warned that an indefinite general strike would be called if the government did not grant pay rises to offset price increases resulting from the economic austerity measures announced on Jan. 24 . |
| 51 | In theory evacuation turned the child population over to the State — although , in practice , however much the TES called for it , government did not make evacuation compulsory . |
| 52 | The one occasion on which the Government did not cheat on the payments was earlier this year and we hoped that it had something to do with the Adjournment debate . |
| 53 | That they were usually successful indicates that the thieves understood the workings of the colonial bureaucracy , and that government did not function in the way intended by higher officials . |
| 54 | It was this fact which led Lord Lyons to comment that the government did not lead so much as follow when it came to the last stages of the crisis . |
| 55 | Congresses and committees did not scrutinize military funding and expenditure , and they had little opportunity to discuss military actions : the government did not announce the ventures in Chad and Uganda ; nor did they disclose training given to Chaddian , Palestinian and perhaps other freedom-fighters ( Tunisian , for example ) . |
| 56 | An ARATS member , Tang Shubei , obliquely warned Taiwanese businessmen that if their government did not co-operate , they would lose out to Americans , Europeans and other Asians . |
| 57 | In mentioning the directive er can I er pause very briefly er Mr Deputy Speaker to apologise to the house that this document was not made available at the draft stage er an unfortunate combination of human error and several failures of communications meant that the select committee was deprived of the opportunity to consider the directive at its draft stage , er I 've noticed the select committee 's report which has been put in the vote office in the usual way and acknowledge the government did not meet its scrutiny obligations with regard to this document in the normal means . |
| 58 | We have already had reference this morning to the outcry against the handling of , of the mine closures and it was immense , the case was made by the Parliamentary Success er Select Committee for some serious thinking about energy policy for the future , yet the government did not think again , the political debate was at the level of whether Mr Heseltine would remain in power and nothing was changed . |
| 59 | You stated that the government did not care about what had happened to Kelly because she was Scottish . |
| 60 | However , on April 3 Sainsbury announced that , despite improvements , the UK government did not feel that the changes justified renewed membership . |