Example sentences of "central government [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The high per capita costs of ensuring these services , and the provision of subsidies from central government may be easier to justify where there is a closer relationship between farming and other activities . |
| 2 | Central government may also be expected to monitor the implementation of the Elton Committee 's recommendations if not to provide the extra resources necessary for the extended role for ( and numbers on education welfare officers , teachers and LEA officers envisaged by the Report . |
| 3 | Central government may also make grants towards some approved capital expenditure ( see Table 6.2 ) . |
| 4 | Central government may assign a local authority a large guideline figure for capital expenditure but also assume it will finance a lot of it from sales of council houses , for example , and hence give a small credit approval . |
| 5 | For example , in urban regeneration the local authority 's objective may be job creation , the objective of central government may be the reduction of crime , the contractor 's objective may be profit from construction , the developer 's objective may be profit from selling on a let facility , and the operator 's objective may be operating profits . |
| 6 | Conditional grants are dependent ( in some way ) on the behaviour of the recipient local authority ; for example , central government may require that the grant be spent on some particular expenditure programme ( health , education , transport ) . |
| 7 | In the case of matching grants the central government agrees to match a certain proportion of the expenditures of the local authority ; for example , central government may pay x per cent of the total cost of providing a service at the local level . |
| 8 | Central government may , on merit good grounds , think it appropriate that a local authority provide more of a particular service . |
| 9 | Central government may encourage local governments to raise more tax revenue by introducing new taxes , levying charges or borrowing . |
| 10 | However , one alternative way in which central government may play a role is to collect the tax revenue on behalf of local governments and then simply to turn the revenue over to them . |
| 11 | By creating ‘ yardsticks ’ , central government may find the task of monitoring quality of service more manageable ( e.g. , ‘ if more dustbins are emptied per kilometre for a lower cost in Scotland than Gateshead , central government has useful information for appraisal ’ : Helm and Smith 1987 , p. x ) . |
| 12 | Whilst an extension of the deconcentration of central government might have gone some way towards abating these feelings , it was not considered by the majority to be a sufficient remedy . |
| 13 | Not until Catherine II deliberately established permanent provincial assemblies of the nobility ( 1785 ) were there any estate institutions in which pressure upon the central government might gather momentum — and even then the assemblies remained passive and ill-attended . |
| 14 | ‘ Gentlemen 's agreements ’ and understandings between local officials and central government might work with Conservative councils but not with most Labour ones . |
| 15 | Among the issues raised by this case were how the court was to go about deciding exactly what powers Parliament had intended to give to the GLC in relation to London Transport ; whether the GLC owed a duty to its ratepayers not to spend the rates on large subsidies for travellers ; whether the GLC was entitled to implement its cheap fares policy just because it had been a major issue in the recent GLC elections ; the extent to which central government ought to control local authority spending ; whether and to what extent public transport ought to be treated as a public service or , on the other hand , as a business which has to break even or make a profit . |
| 16 | Political scientists and economists differ in the views they hold about the extent to which central government ought to control the activities of local government . |
| 17 | Although it might have been hoped that local and central government would redirect main programmes to the benefit of the cities , there is little to suggest that this occurred . |
| 18 | Partnerships were based on the assumption that reasonable people working in a multitude of organizations could devise an agreed strategy for parts of urban Britain : local and central government would work in harness and would incorporate other interests — the police , the business community , voluntary groups , and so on , into a coherent administrative whole . |
| 19 | Direct action by central government would necessitate substantially increased expenditure and therefore revenue . |
| 20 | The central government would be responsible for security and foreign policy , law enforcement and the all-union budget ; the remaining responsibilities of government , including socioeconomic development , energy , transport , social policy and higher education , were to be resolved ‘ jointly ’ ( whatever this might mean ) . |
| 21 | It has never been the case that central Government would indemnify local authorities for expenditure when they are already given money through the revenue support grant to enable them to undertake their responsibilities , and that is not a way forward . |
| 22 | Surely the greatest guarantee of performance in central Government would be the guarantee of democratic access ? |
| 23 | Within no time at all , the directly elected mayor of some industrial town or city in the north would spot that if he came along with imaginative ideas for raising standards and delivering services , he would get support , he would be the one that would claim the credit and the central government would be proud to let him have it . |
| 24 | Singh responded on Oct. 19 with a compromise plan , whereby the central government would purchase the disputed area and allow the construction of a temple alongside the mosque . |
| 25 | Central government would thus retain responsibility primarily for defence and some foreign policy issues . |
| 26 | Central government would retain control of defence , foreign relations , economic policy and other specified fields . |
| 27 | Total federally collected revenue was projected at 101,201 million naira , of which the central government would retain 54,037 million naira , with the balance disbursed to state and local governments . |
| 28 | Later Chavan hinted that the central government would consider the eventual dismissal of the state government if it was found to have violated the court order . |
| 29 | A central government would remain in Sarajevo with responsibility for defence , foreign policy and trade . |
| 30 | Whilst controversy may continue to rage over the most desirable structure for local government and as to the measure of control which central government should exercise over it , the case for having some such structure as the present as a part of the make-up of the constitution remains an imperative both of history and of modern democratic ideals . |