Example sentences of "government [unc] [noun sg] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | OUTSPOKEN Dundalk politician Brendan McGahon has backed the British Government 's call for a crackdown on hardened criminals . |
| 2 | Within a year there had been a shift in the Government 's attitude towards the Corporation . |
| 3 | He said the White Paper failed to indicate the Government 's attitude to the judges ' response to the Green Papers . |
| 4 | Mr. Thomas Graham ( Renfrew , West and Inverclyde ) : The new clause offers Scottish people the opportunity to have at least some confidence in the Government 's attitude to the privatisation of the bus service . |
| 5 | I said that I believed it would now be right to give some indication of the Government 's attitude to the building of a tunnel . |
| 6 | If they were to behave sensibly , the railwaymen could count upon public sympathy , for there is widespread unease about the Government 's attitude to the railways . |
| 7 | The moves seemed to mark a major change in the government 's attitude to the conflict . |
| 8 | Guided by its recent experience Quit has set as medium term goals adult smoking prevalences of 22% in 1994 and 18% in 1997 compared with the British government 's goal in The Health of the Nation of 20% in 2000 . |
| 9 | It means that those shops are no longer viable and we condemn the Government 's inaction on the reform of the Shops Act 1950 . |
| 10 | However , the government 's spokesman on the Bill in its passage through the House of Lords , Lord Caithness , tried to give assurances that there was virtually no possibility that a local authority nor its librarians were in danger of falling foul of the Act by simply stocking homosexual material as part of the library service to the public . |
| 11 | And opinion polls show the number of voters satisfied with the Government 's management of the country has fallen to its lowest level since November 1990 . |
| 12 | First , there is the utter incompetence of the Government 's management of the economy ; secondly , there are its housing policies , described in The Independent as ’ a disaster waiting to happen ’ . |
| 13 | But Labour leader John Smith , in another onslaught against the Government 's management of the economy , claimed that the overall trade deficit was ‘ dangerously high ’ . |
| 14 | In the West Indies pressures on land had already become intense ; the proprietors were replaced by royal governors , and external danger made the government 's support for the islands essential . |
| 15 | His evidence was that he read the report on the night that he received it and was — as others would have been — shocked to find that the parliamentary statements relating to the government 's support for the Nigerians were demonstrably false . |
| 16 | Now , given that the government 's support of the idea of Strasbourg as being a permanent place of meeting for the European parliament . |
| 17 | Madame Speaker , the Government 's position on the substance of the matter remains unchanged ’ … blah , blah , blah . |
| 18 | The government 's position on the structure of higher education was articulated publicly for the first time by Crosland in his famous speech at Woolwich Polytechnic in 1965 , in which he declared the government 's acceptance of the need for a ‘ system based on the twin traditions which have created our present higher institutions ’ . |
| 19 | Amnesty International claimed on Nov. 1 that some 800 Yemenis had been detained , tortured and ill-treated by Saudi troops since August " for no apparent reason other than their nationality , or their suspected opposition to the Saudi Arabian government 's position on the Gulf crisis " . |
| 20 | I think it right … to explain that Government 's position in the light of that advice … |
| 21 | The day was saved by the Government 's willingness for the House to meet , exceptionally , in the mornings until the Committee Stage of the Bill had been completed . |
| 22 | The events which led to this began on 30 June 1925 when the coal owners decided that they would abolish the national minimum wage , cut wages by about 10 per cent in order to compensate for the government 's return to the gold standard with a reflated pound , and to maintain standard profits no matter how low wages fell . |
| 23 | Nigel Lawson , a former chancellor , suggested that the government 's indecision over the poll tax called into question its ability to govern . |
| 24 | With criticism of the government 's handling of the affair mounting , Mitterrand on Feb. 4 called an extraordinary session of parliament . |
| 25 | I commend the Government 's handling of the pay review body and their general approach of marrying this policy , which will lead to higher pay for teachers , with a determined critique of the elements of teachers ' performance which need to be discussed and openly and rigorously criticised . |
| 26 | Opposition parties , which in August had unsuccessfully tabled a motion of no confidence against the government 's handling of the law and order situation [ see p. 39053 ] , criticized the emergency measures as undemocratic . |
| 27 | MPs gathered in the House of Common on Sept. 24 for an emergency debate on the government 's handling of the currency crisis , and voted by 322 to 296 in favour of a motion expressing support for the government 's economic policy . |
| 28 | The implied condemnation by Archbishop Runcie of the jingo spirit of the Falklands War , and the open , if confused , critique of the government 's handling of the miners ' strike by the Bishop of Durham , David Jenkins , caused a widening breach between government and the established Church . |
| 29 | THE GOVERNMENT 's handling of the Maastricht bill came under fierce attack yesterday when it emerged that the Prime Minister has taken legal advice on whether he could by-pass Parliament . |
| 30 | The government 's handling of the disaster , notably its alleged failure to issue warnings prior to the opening of the sluice-gates of the Mangla Dam to prevent flooding the Indus basin in the south , prompted charges of criminal negligence and incompetence by its political critics and sections of the army . |