Example sentences of "'s plan [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a piece of fancy footwork of which Gekko would have been proud , America 's fat cats have capped a record year by undermining President-Elect Bill Clinton 's plans to soak the rich , before he has even set foot in the White House . |
| 2 | Given that a prime reason for investing in science is to boost the nation 's technological performance , where was the discussion about the implications of the government 's plans to privatise the British Technology Group , the descendant of a body set up by Labour itself in the mid-1960s to perform precisely this task ? |
| 3 | These were overtaken by the Government 's plans to deregulate the British securities market , announced in 1983 , which were to lead to Big Bang . |
| 4 | On Aug. 6 Gerhard Stoltenberg , the German Defence Minister , gave final details of the government 's plans to reduce the German army from its existing strength of 461,000 to 370,000 by the end of 1994 ( as agreed in the " Two-plus-four treaty " on German unification — see pp. 37659 ; 37834 ) . |
| 5 | Ray Macsharry 's plans to reform the common agricultural policy are sending shock waves through European farming communities . |
| 6 | Ceauşescu 's plans to standardize the living accommodation of Romanians would have been hailed as the epitome of human progress . |
| 7 | Mr Smith 's plans to increase the top rate of tax to 50 per cent and abolish the ceiling on National Insurance contributions are increasingly being seen by Labour MPs as a major contribution to the party 's fourth consecutive defeat . |
| 8 | She had to face a lot of questions about Labour 's plans to tax the better-off . |
| 9 | Welsh bodies still have until the end of June to air their views on former Welsh Secretary David Hunt 's plan to replace the Welsh counties and districts with 21 new single-tier councils . |
| 10 | They are simply part of the Government 's plan to dilute the tribal population — to promote nationalism by standardizing the Bengali language , culture and the Muslim religion . |
| 11 | A key stage in the government 's plan to privatize the five leading banks ( Union , Mizrahi , Discount , Hapoalim and Leumi ) was reached on Nov. 26 , 1989 , when the ministerial economics committee approved a plan to equalize the voting rights of the banks ' shares . |
| 12 | The execution … of the Saviour 's plan required the prudent application of wise and well-judged measures so as not to injure private property , not to disturb civil order , not to expose Christianity to the scandal of sedition , not to obscure the glory of a Kingdom not of this world . |