Example sentences of "government has [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 Pressure-group activity is only one factor that the government has to take into account in deciding policy , and the group 's importance to the government and community is susceptible of various interpretations .
2 This means that leaders and government have to be accessible to the people ; and , given the great gulf that has opened up between them in so many modern societies , this probably means that the government has to go to the people , rather than expecting the people to come to it .
3 The Government has to deal with the problems raised by this new tax with sympathy and understanding .
4 The government has to tackle structural unemployment by proceeding with an extensive retraining programme and by helping to allocate resources which promote new industries in conjunction with the private sector .
5 In the conduct of fiscal policy the government has to receive Parliamentary approval before proposed changes in taxation or public expenditure can be made effective , and obviously the planning of a Budget and its acceptance by Parliament is a time-consuming process .
6 But he added : ‘ Everybody recognises that the Government has to hold on to an existing policy until the replacement is ready to put in place , and clearly the Secretary of State has to hold to his policy until an alternative has been agreed . ’
7 ‘ It would be naive to think that all a Labour government has to do is increase revenue support , encourage greater investment and Britain 's railway system would automatically catch up with the best in Europe , ’ he said .
8 Most people therefore accept that the government has to do something .
9 The Government has to realise that the only way out of the current crisis is to let local authorities take the initiative . ’
10 I would suggest that the major item which the government has to give priority to is unemployment , especially if they wish to continue in office after three years , which I forecast could be the timing of the next general election if all goes well .
11 To promote subordinate legislation the government has to publish a ‘ statutory instrument ’ which is open to scrutiny by MPs .
12 The Kenyan government has to arbitrate in the conflict of interests between foreign capital , the local auxiliary bourgeoisie and the various strata of politically powerful petite bourgeoisie .
13 When a government has to choose between internal priorities and external largesse , selfishness prevails over charity .
14 This time , the government has to choose between the demands of its own whalers , and a ruling of the International Whaling Commission ( IWC ) .
15 Now obviously er the , the government has to shift priorities , and that 's not something that 's going to change overnight , given the er , the attitude of central government towards these people at the moment , which is extremely negative .
16 To meet this deficit the government has to borrow money .
17 In order for such a policy to be successful and efficient the government has to have some idea of the size of any changes in tax rates and so on required to stabilize the economy , and some idea of when precisely such changes are required .
18 Where that information relates to national security , all that the Government has to show is that publication might cause some injury to the national interest — a test which would ensure that the British equivalent of the Pentagon Papers would never see the light of day .
19 The government has to get money from somewhere , and it is logical that it should look at the whole area of VAT .
20 ‘ The main message of this conference is that the Government has to get to grips with the legislation and put the blame firmly where it lies that is with the people who go out and break the law buying cigarettes . ’
21 In effect , the theory of the second best says that if there must be a distortion , for example if the government has to raise some taxes , it is a mistake to concentrate the distortion in one market .
22 The more pineapples we grow , the more dollars the government has to pay its bills .
23 ( The interest that the government has to pay will reflect the market rate of interest at the time when the bonds are issued . )
24 In other countries where readership is similarly very limited and where the high cost of imported newsprint and machinery and the paucity of advertising revenue combine in much the same way to exclude the private investor , the government has to become involved if a local press is to exist .
25 Under any circumstances this would be difficult enough but this year Welsh local government has to suffer the commu the cumulative burden of previous years cuts .
26 When the parties are evenly balanced in the Commons or when the Government has to depend for support upon minority parties , the Prime Minister may well let it be understood that he will not resign or call an election on an adverse vote in the Commons except on an explicit issue of confidence .
27 THE Government has to reform the ‘ draconian ’ legislation which can make newsagents innocent victims of the law which bans the sale of tobacco to children under 16 .
28 As a government has to win majority support , the electorate have recurrent opportunities to change the nature of the contract between themselves and the state .
29 It would require two million for the costs to be covered , so the Spanish government has to make up the shortfall .
30 If the government has to make a decision on the socially efficient level of pollution anyway , it may be simpler to regulate the quantity directly .
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