Example sentences of "government [noun pl] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The European Court of Human Rights on Oct. 25 condemned United Kingdom regulations which denied prisoners legal recourse over government decisions extending their prison terms or recalling former inmates to prison . |
| 32 | Government forces reached it by dinghy , as part of an attack which the LTTE said was accompanied by heavy and indiscriminate shelling and bombing over Jaffna . |
| 33 | CROAT and government forces slugged it out for parts of central and southwestern Bosnia yesterday , sending waves of bedraggled Muslim refugees fleeing eastward . |
| 34 | Cumberland also felt some anxiety about the security of Blair Castle , situated about eight miles [ 13 km ] north-west of Pitlochry , the ancestral home of Lord George Murray , who obtained permission from Prince Charles to try and regain it from the government forces occupying it , but his light guns proved ineffective against the castle 's 7-ft [ 2.1-m ] thick walls . |
| 35 | They say government cutbacks mean they ca n't do the job properly . |
| 36 | Now Government cuts mean he will be released with £5,000 and some qualifications . |
| 37 | Most papers did not mind , however , for the government restrictions kept their paper and printing costs low and enabled them to make good profits from the big demand for advertising space . |
| 38 | Even if the inspector were to back the roads package , however , difficulties in obtaining central government grants meant it was unlikely to start before 1996–7 at the earliest . |
| 39 | Even if the inspector were to back the roads package , however , difficulties in obtaining central government grants meant it was unlikely to start before 1996–7 at the earliest . |
| 40 | Many recent government reports confirm its continuing presence . |
| 41 | Original government campaigns targeted everybody but are now considered to have failed . |
| 42 | The Bill , introduced by Labour MP Alf Morris , aims to outlaw discrimination against disabled people but government ministers say it is too wide-ranging and potentially costly for employers . |
| 43 | He added : ‘ As Government ministers reminded us this week , circumstances change . |
| 44 | Government ministers portrayed him ‘ not only as a champion of the law but a defender of the rights of workers not to unionise ’ ( Scraton , 1985b:158 ) . |
| 45 | Not since the days when Gosplan tried to micro-manage the Soviet Union have government employees attempted anything quite so ambitious , not to say foolhardy . |