Example sentences of "government [noun sg] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | [ For government decision on issue in September 1991 see p. 38447 . ] |
| 2 | Since the government decision in favour of the THORP development , Sellafield and its operations have been the subject of regular protests , many of them organized by the local group Cumbrians Opposed to a Radioactive Environment . |
| 3 | The announcement follows in the wake of a government decision in principle in June to provide protection to 20 sites of national importance whose survival is threatened by urban and tourist development . |
| 4 | It seems likely therefore , because of widespread dissatisfaction within the academic community , that the whole area of Government funding for research in the United Kingdom will require fundamental changes in the way in which research is assessed and administered . |
| 5 | Although it is clear that most of these groups were not representative they were instrumental in directing government funding to projects of limited use to the majority of residents , ‘ neighbourhood stabilisation ’ apart . |
| 6 | In recent years there has been a major media hype about the supposed increase of government funding of initiatives in West Belfast . |
| 7 | They travelled by Government steam-packet from Falmouth to Marseilles , thereafter entrusting themselves to the French conveyances . |
| 8 | Long failed to persuade the richer boroughs and the Cabinet to include a degree of late equalization in the Act which was , however , important as an admission of government responsibility for relief to the unemployed . |
| 9 | There was a reaction against ( Conservative ) government unpreparedness for war in the 1930s and against those who had not done more to solve the nation 's problems during the Depression . |
| 10 | ‘ Clients were not adequately informed about the permanent nature of the operation in over 40% of the centres ’ Joint World Bank , WHO , SIDA , Government review of sterilisation in Bangladesh , 1983 |
| 11 | If you are undecided whether to apply , you may visit a Government Department during vacation in order to see what goes on , your reasonable expenses being refunded . |
| 12 | He fought for a local government seat in Islington in 1982 and gained Stockton south from the SDP in 1987 . |
| 13 | He fought a local government seat in Hexham in 1979 but was defeated . |
| 14 | I think the County Council looked at government guidance in relation to the need to protect and safeguard National Parks , greenbelt , high quality agricultural land , to the need to protect the countryside for its own sake . |
| 15 | In March 1991 his appearance on national television in support of government action against Shias in the south [ see pp. 38081-82 ] had shocked followers . |
| 16 | In a major government reorganization in Croatia on Aug. 1 Tudjman included opposition politicians for the first time in a new " government of democratic unity " which continued to be dominated by the Croatian Democratic Union ( HDZ ) with 11 out of 27 posts . |
| 17 | A pro-Yeltsin group established on June 6 , the People 's Patriotic Party of Russia , was based on the Union of Afghan Veterans ( soldiers in the Afghan war 1979-1989 ) and chaired by Aleksandr Kotenev , leader of the Union of Afghan Veterans and Russian government adviser on links with informal organizations . |
| 18 | The present position is especially unsatisfactory ; instability and uncertainty follow the imposition of a major government programme for education without adequate consultation and in the face of substantial calls for modification . |
| 19 | A Government programme of help for single mothers has not yet been drawn up , although church groups say they have centres ready to take in anyone needing help . |
| 20 | The government attitude towards protest among university students , towards press censorship , and the growing problem of unrest in Poland vacillated between firm repression and conciliation . |
| 21 | Lithuanian government proposal for suspension of independence declaration — Adoption by Supreme Council |
| 22 | Deriding the value of the committee of the regions , he tried to demolish Mr Salmond 's case for entering the Government lobby in exchange for SNP representation on the European committee , by repeating the comments he made on it when he was the party 's foreign affairs spokesman : ‘ I remember saying , with the approval of my leader , that it is merely an advisory body , advising another advisory body and has no powers of any kind . ’ |
| 23 | GOVERNMENT compensation for victims of the BCCI scandal was virtually ruled out yesterday in spite of a highly critical report by MPs on the role of the Bank of England . |
| 24 | THERE will be no Government compensation for depositors of the collapsed Bank of Credit and Commerce International , the Chancellor , Norman Lamont , told MPs last night . |
| 25 | The draft produced by the CCA proposed the abolition of the Council of Ministers and the establishment of a government operating in accordance with the " premiership system " , under which the Prime Minister and individual ministers would have greatly enhanced powers . |
| 26 | For example , suppose a statute gives a minister two different but related powers ; suppose further that the statute provides that before the minister exercises power A , he or she must consider representations made by ‘ any person ’ , and that before the minister exercises power B he or she must consult a particular government body with responsibility for some relevant aspect of government policy . |
| 27 | It could be argued that these provisions would justify allowing any person to challenge exercises of power A , but also applying a more restrictive standing rule ( perhaps something like ‘ special interest ’ ) to challenges to exercises of power B on the ground that Parliament had intended the government body in question to be the prime guardian of the public interest in the exercise of power B. |
| 28 | In the first place , diplomatic and political history were regarded as the centre of the discipline — the transaction of government business from month to month and year to year so that , according to the progenitors of the new approach , one could be forgiven for thinking that the only Frenchmen who had lived were cabinet ministers . |
| 29 | ( Major had told the Commonwealth heads of government conference in Harare in October 1991 that the UK was prepared unilaterally to implement these terms , which envisaged writing off two-thirds of the export credits owed by the world 's poorest countries — see p. 38552 . ) |
| 30 | More recent reviews suggest that the government prohibition of admissions to mental hospitals has , at least partially , succeeded in achieving the development of community services . |