Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] the government " in BNC.
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| 1 | Efforts in mid-July to resume oil talks suspended in late June failed after the government reportedly turned down UN conditions demanding that oil exports be channelled through Turkey to the Mediterranean terminal of Ceyhan rather than through the Iraqi port of Mina al-Bakr . |
| 2 | If a local authority behaved as the Government have over the sale of public assets , its members would be disqualified and taken before the district auditor and might have to spend some time in gaol — and quite right , too . |
| 3 | Wogan handled the interview very well , leading me gently through the facts of John 's abduction and why we disagreed with the Government . |
| 4 | Bouterse 's disagreements with Shankar stemmed from the government 's attempt to negotiate a peaceful end to the armed revolt of the Surinamese Liberation Army ( SLA ) , led by Bouterse 's former bodyguard Ronnie Brunswijk [ see pp. 37493-94 ] . |
| 5 | It also contributed to the Government 's work on improving the quality , relevance and availability of construction industry tactics . |
| 6 | A recent parliamentary answer that drew on the Government 's own resources revealed that the Royal Navy was more modern in 1979 than it is in 1991 . |
| 7 | I referred to the Government 's record on job creation . |
| 8 | A NEW row erupted around the Government last night after it signalled it would go slow on new laws to outlaw ticket touts . |
| 9 | On Sept. 10 , the Lok Sabha ( lower house of parliament ) passed the Places of Worship ( Special Provisions ) Bill [ see p. 38391 ] by an overwhelming voice vote after all amendments , except two moved by the government , were either negated or withdrawn . |
| 10 | Since then many more have been established , some created by the Government to oversee newly-privatised industries and others set up by private companies attracted by the idea of a ‘ righter of wrongs ’ whom the public see as independent and impartial . |
| 11 | The Woolwich building society yesterday appealed for the Government to take ‘ urgent and decisive ’ action to end the housing slump . |
| 12 | The transfer came despite the government 's commitment to talks with the ANC on the reincorporation of all four " independent " bantustans ( Bophuthatswana , Ciskei , Transkei and Venda ) . |
| 13 | Support for this approach came from the government department responsible for assessing safety in the nuclear industry — the Health and Safety Executive , which incorporates the Nuclear Installations Inspectorate . |
| 14 | Rebate-only plans apparently offered a free pension , as all the money came from the Government . |
| 15 | Agreeing the case was arguable , the judge told Mr Pannick he would rely on him very carefully to consider whatever documents came from the Government , not represented in court yesterday , when considering whether to continue pursuing the challenge . |
| 16 | We also appealed to the Government to respond to an extraordinary press conference given by the Iranian chargé d'affaires in London on the anniversary of Terry Waite 's imprisonment a few weeks ago , but no-one took much notice of that , either . |
| 17 | WALLASEY MP Angela Eagle today appealed to the government to continue Wirral 's status as a development area . |
| 18 | ‘ Of course , it is not known who the kidnappers of Mr McCarthy are , so we are interested to know why you came to the Government of Iran for help . ’ |
| 19 | Germany 's 2.3 million public service workers are heading for their first strike for 18 years in support of a 5.4 per cent pay rise recommended by arbitrators but rejected by the government . |
| 20 | Even over the economy , in particular interest rates and membership of the Exchange Rate Mechanism , the newspapers argued and argued and argued against the Government 's destructive obstinacy . |
| 21 | Lord Prior , figurehead at G E C , and former Tory Minister , argued against the government 's original proposal that the employee 's authorization of check-off facilities should be on a yearly basis . |
| 22 | However , Kenneth Clark , who replied for the government , was not encouraging and seemed to accept the pessimistic view of Neville Trotter , Conservative MP for Tyne mouth , who blamed all the problems on Korean labour costs which were only 20% of those in the UK . |
| 23 | This happened despite the government 's claims that it was injecting market discipline into the private sector by not ‘ bailing out lame ducks ’ . |
| 24 | Within the first year of the 1987 Parliament a quarter of Conservative back-benchers rebelled against the government at least once . |
| 25 | Yet the government as promoter at times conflicted with the government as regulator , particularly in the area of competition policy . |
| 26 | The new year , 1989 , opened with the government barely keeping a ‘ lid ’ on the situation . |
| 27 | Under the December 1988 coalition agreement [ see p. 36948 ] a new election would automatically be called if either major party withdrew from the government . |
| 28 | The HNS , widely regarded as the strongest opposition party in Croatia , withdrew from the government on May 14 in support of Misetic 's resignation . |
| 29 | But on countless doorsteps Tory voters pushed aside local issues and turned on the government . |
| 30 | Will the Minister widen his reply to include funding of the national companies , and in particular will he explain the remarks that he made to the Royal Society of Arts last week , when he speculated on the Government funding the national companies directly ? |