Example sentences of "government [verb] [be] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This incentive , combined with a period of cost containment in which public hospital funding from state and federal governments has been under increasing pressure , has created even more of a temptation to attract privately funded patients in preference to patients solely supported by public funds . |
| 2 | In more recent times the behaviour of British governments has been more restrained and more sophisticated , but their instincts and suspicions remain . |
| 3 | She has given voice to those who thought that previous Conservative governments had been too tolerant or ‘ defeatist ’ about the unions , the welfare state , high taxation , and public spending , and too accommodating to other countries , particularly in the European Community and the Commonwealth . |
| 4 | In Spain , governments have been keenly aware of RENFE 's position as the model whose pay and conditions were likely to have major repercussions for other firms throughout the economy . |
| 5 | Governments have been particularly concerned with the application of pay norms and incomes policies in the railways because of the industry 's size and political salience . |
| 6 | Everyday is election day in politics and few governments have been more aware of it than the Westminster ones since the beginning of the ‘ Ulster troubles ’ . |
| 7 | Developing-country governments have been more willing to join the cause . |
| 8 | However , where attempts are made to build up monopoly by merger there has been a heightened awareness of the inherent dangers , and governments have been more willing to take direct action to prohibit them . |
| 9 | In practice the actions of governments have been less high-minded : a fact the opposition is always quick to point out . |
| 10 | Successive governments have been very careful to ensure that the benefits bought from a pension fund are taxed only once and strictly as deferred earned income . |
| 11 | Within the Community , governments have been actively campaigning in order to explain to business people and to the general public what it implies and promises . |
| 12 | The South Korean government has been remarkably low key in its response , apparently intent not to inflame the situation . |
| 13 | The government has been continuously involved in the process of capacity expansion : |
| 14 | Privatization is another area in which the government has been more radical than was anticipated . |
| 15 | But one thing seems clear : during the past decade the Government has been more intent on reducing the powers of local authorities than on providing for fundamental changes in the social conditions of the inner cities . |
| 16 | No nation and no government has been more conscious of the need , as they perceive it , to build barriers protecting European civilisation against American and Japanese audio-visual cultural imperialism than the French . |
| 17 | you understand that the honourable gentleman wants to establish that the government has been extraordinarily dilatory , that er there is a massive delay , there is problem for electoral registration officers because that the regulations , the regulations depend upon a directive . |
| 18 | In other words , according to its critics , the Conservative government has been too concerned with ownership and not concerned enough with the quantity and quality of the housing stock . |
| 19 | Since 1979 , local government has been under increasing pressure to consider ways in which the private sector could run services previously provided by the public sector . |
| 20 | But the Government has been severely embarrassed by the burgeoning cost of the programme . |
| 21 | Fall in teachers qualifying The Government has been quite happy to invest when it suits its own ideological ends . |
| 22 | Human rights activists and journalists can not fathom why the Paris government has been so lukewarm to the Bourequats . |
| 23 | Yet her role in altering the political balance in the Conservative party and directing the government has been so important that she merits discussion in her own right . |
| 24 | The Israeli government has been agonisingly slow to take up the challenge , although it has calculated that US$3 billion will be needed over three years for housing , job creation and other aspects of large-scale immigrant absorption . |
| 25 | The wide entitlement to reliefs and rebates , which the government insisted were more generous than under the rates ; the existence of safety nets to redistribute income between certain authorities ; and the immediate introduction of capping all fudged the relationship between councils and voters . |
| 26 | The Jordanian government had been under heavy United States pressure to carry out sanctions . |
| 27 | In December 1990 the Syrian government had been as active as ever , encouraging the gathering in Damascus of a ‘ joint action committee ’ of familiar names — Hojjatoleslam Hakim , the Kurdish leaders Barzani and Talabani , and also Brigadier-General Naqib , in Syria since the early 1980s . |
| 28 | That is why we are in this trouble , and why the Government have been grossly irresponsible . |
| 29 | The Government have been most mean in not getting rid of the 20 per cent . |
| 30 | The Government have been too negative . |