Example sentences of "government is [v-ing] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Minister of Constitutional Development , Gerrit van N. Viljoen , in the budget debate in Parliament on May 9-11 , 1990 , outlined a plan for a future constitutional dispensation which , according to the state-owned media , showed that " the government is striving to cater for minorities " [ usually understood in a South African context to mean principally white people , but also Asians and " coloureds " ] and " assures people that the values and aspirations of minorities will not be set aside through majority rule " . |
| 2 | Organisation spokesperson Ann Bannister said : ‘ The government is aiming to save £400m by forcing absent parents to pay maintenance . |
| 3 | The Government is seeking to scrap the councils , which have powers to set minimum rates of pay and other terms of conditions of service . |
| 4 | Attention has recently focused on four sections of the sixth century wall mosaics from the church of Panayia Kanakaria , near Famagusta , which the Cypriot government is seeking to reclaim through the courts from an Indianapolis dealer . |
| 5 | Because that is exactly what the Government is seeking to do with this legal aid proposal . |
| 6 | The nature of those policies with their emphases on private sector developments , home ownership and small businesses , suggests that in part at least the Government is seeking to produce electoral change by introducing traditional Conservative supporters to areas where the party has been very weak — as , for example , in many of the residential developments in London 's Docklands . |
| 7 | The government is intending to scale down SERPS . |
| 8 | The government is intending to convert Drax power station in Yorkshire , and perhaps Ferrybridge in the same county , with FGD . |
| 9 | And rather than iron out the problems , the Government is intending to add to them if the latest secondary legislation Consultation Paper — Permitted Use Rights In The Countryside — is anything to go by . |
| 10 | The Government is looking to increase student numbers by 25 per cent over the next three years . |
| 11 | The government is trying to curb investments by listed companies into the mainland , but has no means of accurately monitoring — let alone controlling — how much local companies have put into China . |
| 12 | ‘ The Government is trying to promote small businesses and to cut out some of the bureaucracy and red tape which is strangling us . ’ |
| 13 | He said : ‘ The new government is trying to set up a new country but they have no natural resources and they are desperately short of everything . |
| 14 | The Government is trying to extend CCT to the white-collar services . |
| 15 | Make no mistake about it by all the processes of the government propaganda machine by kite-flying and carefully placed links , the government is trying to soften us up to the idea of increasing the State pension age for women to sixty five . |
| 16 | The new government of Russia which negotiated with the brother of Nicholas II with a view to restoring the monarchy in Russia , and in which the leading monarchists Lvov and Guchkov occupy leading positions , this government is trying to represent as a defensive war … its imperialist war with Germany , to represent as a defence of the Russian republic … the defence of the predatory imperialist bandit-like aims of Russian , English , and other capital . |
| 17 | The federal government is trying to persuade the communes to give up their existing sales taxes and rely in future either on transfers from the budgets of the republics and provinces or on revenue raised by taxes on local incomes and property . |
| 18 | There is little doubt that the colony 's government is trying to improve relations with China , which have steadily deteriorated since the suppression of the democracy movement in June . |
| 19 | The government is trying to improve fruit and vegetable production , and recently the kiwi fruit , which is known for its prolific yield and good export price , has been introduced . |
| 20 | The LTTE for its part blamed government forces , saying that the killings were " meticulously planned and executed , and blamed on the LTTE at a time when the Sri Lankan government is trying to purchase weapons from Middle Eastern Moslem countries " ( a reference to a visit made by Ranjan Wijeratne , Plantations Minister and Minister of State for Defence , to Iran , Libya and Egypt in early August ) . |
| 21 | No-one is suggesting that the Government is trying to gag its critics , but the fact that relations between it and Fleet Street are n't as cosy as they once were perhaps makes it easier for the Government to introduce the tax at present . |
| 22 | Several questions remain unanswered : would the police force be split into three at a time when the government is trying to rationalise the service . |
| 23 | Local authorities can spoil or block what a government is trying to do , or they can steal its credit . |
| 24 | What the Government is trying to do is to persuade the estate agents that they should n't give false particulars at all . |
| 25 | Is n't this an indication that the government is trying to do something for training in this country ? |
| 26 | The Government is trying to control the porn trade . |
| 27 | ‘ The real problem is once again the Government is trying to rush through a complex pattern of assessment without the resources or time to give it the proper foundations . |
| 28 | ‘ The government is trying to fiddle the figures in an attempt to curry political favour just like it fiddled the unemployment figures . ’ |
| 29 | The government is trying to boost the ailing economy by converting the defence industry to civilian production . |
| 30 | He 'll tell MPs that the Government is trying to restart negotiations involving all the constitutional parties in the Province . |