Example sentences of "government ['s] [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 61 | And he does not believe the Government 's proposals to make gipsies responsible for finding their own sites will work either . |
| 62 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that the Government 's proposals to introduce powers to prevent local authorities from excessive spending by means of capping will be very well received by all those in Labour-controlled authorities who have to put up with excessive tax bills ? |
| 63 | The Conservative government 's proposals to reform the health service published in the White Paper Working for Patients , were designed to improve the efficiency of the NHS and , at the same time , increase the patient 's choice . |
| 64 | In support of his proposition , Mr Connell refers to the Government 's proposals to transfer responsibility for the Scottish Arts Council from the Secretary of State for National Heritage to the Secretary of State for Scotland . |
| 65 | But it was also clear that the longer the inquiry went on , the more it would coincide with the growing national debate about the government 's proposals to privatize the electricity industry . |
| 66 | Age Concern welcomes the Government 's proposals to remove administrative barriers to people who wish to change general practitioners . |
| 67 | What the Government 's proposals offer is not only the chance to seize the initiative from Mrs Thatcher on this front , but to begin to think carefully about what is meant regarding the devolution of power . |
| 68 | 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 ) . |
| 69 | Will he confirm that , for example , opencast mines and jobs in Ayrshire are threatened by the Government 's proposals to privatise Northern Ireland Electricity ? |
| 70 | The government 's critics charge that the area to be protected includes bogs , rock and tundra and that over 86 per cent of the surviving big trees will be cut by MacMillan Bloedel , a logging company in which the government recently invested C$50 million . |
| 71 | But that is the position which some of the Government 's critics seem now to occupy . |
| 72 | But that is the position which some of the Government 's critics seem now to occupy . |
| 73 | October 20 : Sir Godfray Le Quesne 's inquiry is judged by Lord Young to have found no grounds for concluding that the Government 's actions caused the losses . |
| 74 | Mr Budgen said : ‘ The Government 's actions have been disgraceful , describing Maastricht as an issue of confidence in private and denying it in public . |
| 75 | The serious business of taking the tough decisions necessary to agree on a budget that both puts the deficit on a downward path and meets the government 's priorities has virtually disappeared . |
| 76 | What had been intended as a warning shot across the government 's bows has sunk a government that had given Poland a year of political continuity , maintained budgetary austerity against populist opposition and taken the first steps on two essential reforms that now go into limbo . |
| 77 | Supply Days , when at least in theory the Commons discussed ministerial proposals to spend money , have been replaced with Opposition Days which allow the government 's opponents to decide the subject for debate . |
| 78 | The spate of recent disturbances , aggravated by high prices , housing shortages and the cut in food subsidies imposed during the Gulf war , led the government 's opponents to accuse it of ignoring the poor . |
| 79 | The Government 's reforms proposed a more comprehensive and coherent system of disability benefits and the Secretary of State for Social Security , Tony Newton , promised ‘ a better life for Britain 's disabled people ’ , ( The Way Ahead , Benefits for Disabled People , Cm 917 , HMSO , 1990 ) . |
| 80 | Is the Secretary of State prepared to recognise that the Government 's reforms have added to the difficulties of health care provision in the capital ? |
| 81 | Faced with the intense competition of foreign trade competitors , employers resorted to attempts to reduce monetary wages , an action which was given an additional downward twist by the Baldwin government 's decisions to return to the gold standard and to reflate the pound in 1925 . |
| 82 | The wartime machinery of industrial relations still survived — particularly the Whitley Councils which had been competitors , employers resorted to attempts to reduce monetary wages , an action which was given an additional downward twist by the Baldwin government 's decisions to return to the gold standard and to reflate the pound in 1925 . |
| 83 | In the present recession , almost 100,000 jobs have gone , according to the Government 's figures published in Employment Gazette . |
| 84 | Nowadays the government 's lawyers appear more interested in the publicity a case will win them than anything else . |
| 85 | By 1989–90 , the government 's grants had risen to 82 million to support expenditure on 15 ‘ activities of national priority ’ , with LEAs encouraged to seek additional funding from outside the public sector . |
| 86 | They had ceased operations in February 1992 on the basis of government 's pledges to provide land and credits , and were now demanding that these pledges be honoured . |
| 87 | The government 's advisers say that this is a rare condition ‘ in which the ability of the blood to carry oxygen is decreased , characteristically causing a grey/blue tint to the skin ’ . |
| 88 | The number of people employed in private enterprise , the government 's statisticians guess , grew by more than 500,000 in 1989 , bringing the total to between 1.8m and 2m people . |
| 89 | At the same conference , Law warned the Unionists that they must accept the government 's plans to extend the franchise , whatever their personal opinions : |
| 90 | In a robust speech , which won him a standing ovation , Mr Clarke denied suggestions that Government 's plans to overhaul the NHS were a substitute for extra money for the service . |