Example sentences of "government ['s] [noun pl] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anti-narcotics agents see the arrests as test cases in the government 's efforts to curb next year 's harvest , which provides Britain with 80 per cent of its heroin supply . |
| 2 | An immediate outcome of the government 's efforts to implement this programme and raise basic consumer prices was the outbreak of riots in June 1990 which further highlighted the government 's unpopularity . |
| 3 | A new government 's efforts to undo much of its predecessor 's work is damaging and disruptive . |
| 4 | Some stolen stock was allowed to be recovered by the traditional method — not , it can be imagined , without amusement on the part of the Masai , who had spent forty years resisting the government 's efforts to abolish that fighting spirit which was now deemed so commendable . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , Libyans in Kufra and Ajdabiya resented the government 's attempts to secure social justice by altering the permitted range of economic activities , by changing the rules of participation in production and by introducing quantitative limits into the notion of property . |
| 6 | Thus , the disclosure that the Government 's attempts to broaden individual share ownership have suffered a setback came on you 've guessed it March 10 . |
| 7 | This was certainly the conclusion of contemporary intellectuals , almost all of whom thought that the government 's attempts to raise additional troops created more problems than they solved . |
| 8 | As Greenwood ( 1982 , p. 259 ) noted , ‘ The Conservative Government 's attempts to extract deeper cuts from higher rather than the lower spending authorities represent a movement away ’ from the former ‘ philosophy ’ . |
| 9 | They 're protesting at the government 's proposals to allow private firms to tender for prison work . |
| 10 | Age Concern welcomes the Government 's proposals to remove administrative barriers to people who wish to change general practitioners . |
| 11 | The main criticisms directed against the legislation of the first half of the 1980s were ‘ that decentralized democratic decision making in the form of representative local government is an essential element of the country 's political and government system … we believe the government 's proposals to limit local authority rates and expenditure levels are a major threat to this ’ ( SAUS , 1983 , Conclusion ) . |
| 12 | On the following day Deputy Prime Minister Lee Seung Yoon presented details of the government 's plans to combat consumer-price abuses and real estate speculation , including the proposed forced sale of idle land held by the Chaebol . |
| 13 | The UK government 's plans to allow limited use of 44-tonne lorries on British roads have been attacked by environmental groups as being open to widespread abuse . |
| 14 | The Law Society is not opposed to competitive tendering in itself — now widespread for commercial legal work — and indeed is working with the Department of the Environment on the Government 's plans to compel local authorities to put their legal services out to tender . |
| 15 | The government 's plans to privatize public-sector banks [ see p. 38533 ] suffered a setback after a poor response from prospective investors . |
| 16 | The government 's moves did little , however , to counter the growing sense of crisis in the Tokyo stock market , and share prices continued to fall during April . |
| 17 | The first has been fighting a ( largely losing ) battle against social condemnation of " stealing other people 's homes " ; the second has been the mechanism by which to carry out government 's policies to protect some short-term occupiers ( tenants , with exclusive possession ) but not others ( licensees ) . |
| 18 | Therefore , many of the Government 's intiatives using those funds suggest ways in which energy consumers can save energy . |
| 19 | The Chief Highways Planner followed , outlining the Government 's intentions to provide further motorway links between industrial centres and the ports . |
| 20 | The government 's measures to secure more planning permissions for housing development will go a long way to remedy the shortage of building land and so remove the occasion for windfall profits based on scarcity values . |