Example sentences of "[art] first [adj] government " in BNC.
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| 1 | William Waldegrave , the science minister , unveiled the first new government strategy for science and technology for 21 years . |
| 2 | So we have to move from old structures to new but the first new government of South Africa will be a compromise in itself because it will be a united government but it will inherit not a post-apartheid state as many academics and politicians tell us it will inherit a nil-apartheid state and that is a very big difference we still have to move to the post-apartheid situation which could take decades . |
| 3 | An Afghan Foreign Ministry spokesman announced on Jan. 12 that the French government had declared its intention to become the first western government to reopen its embassy in Kabul . |
| 4 | This enabled Mitsotakis to form the first single-party government since 1981 . |
| 5 | This echoed earlier comments by Mandela that the first non-racial government would be a coalition . |
| 6 | On July 19 the Japanese Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs , Muneo Suzuki , said during the first official government visit to South Africa since 1969 that Japan was considering lifting economic sanctions , having lifted its ban on tourism and non-economic sanctions in June [ see p. 38270 ] . |
| 7 | His coalition , the first Finnish government in 25 years not to include a left-wing party , embraced the right-wing National Coalition Party ( KOK , led by outgoing Prime Minister Harri Holkeri ) , the Swedish People 's Party ( SFP ) , and the Finnish Christian Union ( SKL ) . |
| 8 | The main political event of the year to June 1991 was the general election in March , in which the opposition KESK gained the largest number of seats ( 55 out of 200 ) and went on to form the first Finnish government in 25 years which did not include a left-wing party . |
| 9 | This surely is the basic English policy of helping and solidarity , which took us through the last war and into the first Labour Government and the welfare state . |
| 10 | The first Labour government singularly failed to do anything about the level of unemployment , although it made it easier for the unemployed to obtain unemployment relief and extended benefit . |
| 11 | The electorate , still besotted with a belief in free trade , rejected Baldwin 's campaign for , although the Conservatives were the largest parliamentary party , they were outnumbered by Labour and Liberal MPs who were committed to free trade ; the first Labour government was formed as a result . |
| 12 | The Baldwin government which was returned to office in 1924 , after the collapse of the first Labour government , was committed to free trade , the gold standard and rationalization . |
| 13 | Which is more than can be said of the successors of the first Labour government , elected just when the Elmhirsts arrived at the bankrupt farms and derelict buildings of Dartington . |
| 14 | But when MacDonald formed the first Labour Government in 1924 , he brushed aside Morel 's claim to the Foreign Office and took the job himself , combining it with the premiership . |
| 15 | In 1924 the First Labour Government devoted much effort to restoring normal relations with the Soviet Union . |
| 16 | But after the formation of the first Labour government in 1924 matters potentially became much more serious , since socialists then came to be vested with the power of legislation . |
| 17 | In 1923 the Conservative Government once again introduced a subsidy scheme , under Neville Chamberlain , and the programme was developed in 1924 by John Wheatley , Minister of Health in the first Labour Government . |
| 18 | But , although winning a famous victory over ( Sir ) Winston Churchill to become Labour MP for Dundee in November 1922 , he was passed over for the foreign secretaryship of the first Labour government fourteen months later . |
| 19 | At 28 , Labour 's parliamentary caucus was smaller than at any time since 1931 , before the first Labour government had ever been elected . |
| 20 | In fact , the first Labour government which took office in January 1924 , after Baldwin had been defeated on an amendment to the Address , lasted until October , when the new government in turn was defeated on a Liberal amendment to a Conservative motion which MacDonald chose to regard as a matter of confidence ; and the Conservatives rather than the Liberals were to be the beneficiaries of MacDonald 's fall . |
| 21 | This was to find some authoritative expression during the war years themselves and more especially in the years after 1945 , when a general election resulted in the return of the first Labour government with a clear working majority in the House of Commons . |
| 22 | The first Labour government of 1924 had been ineffective and supported by the Liberals . |
| 23 | The first major government report on wastage of ability in education after the war referred to ‘ the general shortage of trained scientists and technologists ’ in the country and urged the expansion of secondary education to meet this ‘ most pressing need . ’ |
| 24 | If the new arrangements are adequately funded and properly implemented , they will comprise the first major government initiative to foster care at home rather than in institutions . |
| 25 | Pindling , who served as Prime Minister for 25 years , had led the first black government and in 1967 broke the power of the Bay Street Boys , the white colonial merchants who dominated the economy and ran the islands like a private club . |
| 26 | It was UNIP which eventually took control of the first independent government winning , in January 1964 , fifty-five seats to the ANC 's ten . |
| 27 | Langdon believed Kim Ku was the most obvious candidate for leading the first independent government . |
| 28 | As a result , the first independent government of Namibia has inherited fishing grounds with fish populations reduced to ghost proportions . |
| 29 | In trying to overcome these problems the first republican government of 1931-33 set the stage for things to come ; the political alienation of both the right and left wings of the political spectrum in Spain . |
| 30 | The first National Government , the government which forms the focal point of most historical writing on the crisis , followed the collapse of the Labour government in August 1931 . |