Example sentences of "government have [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given the importance of such personal qualities , the government have called for improvements in the selection of students for initial teacher training and have urged that only students with the ‘ requisite personal qualities ’ should be awarded qualified-teacher status at the end of their studies . |
| 2 | He supports the curtailment , apparently , of green-form advice , which I believe is largely motivated by the embarrassment which the Government have suffered from a number of very successful cases that have been mounted against Home Office decisions by law centres and legal aid practices throughout the country . |
| 3 | If she walks within a few hundred yards of this building , she will see young people , whom the Government have deprived of benefit , sleeping rough and begging on the streets because of the total indifference of people such as the hon. Lady and Conservative Members . |
| 4 | We have not just heard what the official Opposition have to say , or what the Government have said in the autumn statement ; we have heard what the Opposition 's opposition suggest , in the form of the amendment tabled by the right hon. Member for Chesterfield ( Mr. Benn ) . |
| 5 | Let us then examine the progress that the Government have made towards achieving those objectives . |
| 6 | To ask the Secretary of State for Energy what progress the Government have made in establishing a standard assessment procedure for home energy labelling . |
| 7 | However , the hon. Gentleman will know that the Government have gone to great lengths to help the Northern Ireland economy and I am sure that the measures that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland is taking will continue to alleviate the situation in the Province . |
| 8 | However , we have just had the third record increase in the amount of money that the Government have given to the Arts Council of Great Britain , which is directly responsible for passing on such moneys to the Royal Opera House , the Birmingham Royal Ballet and other companies . |
| 9 | Those dramatic figures reflect several things , not least the steady and progressive reform that the Government have undertaken in industrial relations . |
| 10 | Changes in government have led to discontinuities in policy , but trends towards convergence have also occurred , despite the parties in office attempting to carry out different policies . |
| 11 | The treaty provides for the possibility that member states will wish to adopt a single currency later this decade , but they can do so only if they meet strict convergence conditions — conditions for which the British Government have pressed from the outset . |
| 12 | from students now that the Government have conceded in the new council tax that students will not pay it . |
| 13 | Cold weather payments , child benefit and the dependency allowances are important matters on which the Government have cheated in the uprating statement . |
| 14 | All European Members would have liked to pay tribute to the splendid work that she and the Government have done for overseas development . |
| 15 | The ‘ City of Culture ’ accolade will perhaps be an opportunity for the people of Dublin to howl in protest at what the Dublin Corporation and the Irish government have done to the city . |
| 16 | I welcome the work that the Government have done in that important respect . |
| 17 | Secondly , all the groups who are considered to be priorities by both the Government and the Opposition — low-income pensioners , low-income families and disabled people — have benefited significantly from what the Government have done in recent years . |
| 18 | Is my right hon. Friend aware that the measures introduced yesterday by our right hon. Friend the Chancellor , the harmonious industrial relations restored by the Government and the substantial investment from home and overseas mean that manufacturing in the heart of England is deeply grateful for all that the Government have done in the past 13 years ? |
| 19 | Those who may at some stage look at VSEL 's order books may care to consider that , even if the fourth submarine is constructed , the consequences for employment in such constituencies will remain severe because of what the Government have done in relation to naval and submarine construction . |
| 20 | That downturn is all the more remarkable considering the damage that the Government have done by reducing British industry . |
| 21 | Indeed proposals for the service to be administered by local government have fallen by the wayside because of the determination of central government to control the cost of the service . |
| 22 | The nation should be told about the chaos , poverty and hardship that the Government have created in deprived areas throughout the country . |
| 23 | If , with the help of all the civil servants who advise Ministers and who sit under the Gallery and elsewhere , one worked on a policy to create crime , one could not come up with anything better than what the Government have created in the past 12 years . |
| 24 | I honestly believe that this is a a a financial exercise that the government have imposed on the criminal justice system . |
| 25 | Is not that an extra tax that the Government have imposed on business ? |
| 26 | The Government have reneged on all their commitments to the civil servants who were transferred into the private sector . |
| 27 | If a local authority misused the billions of pounds that the Government have misused for that purpose , it would be taken to the district auditors . |
| 28 | SIX OF the seven top economics advisers to the Government have cautioned against tax increases in the Budget next month , saying that the economy is just too fragile to sustain them . |
| 29 | The Government have capitulated on the flat rate principle , the property base and on accountability . |
| 30 | The Government have capitulated on principle , but they have made a terrible mess of translating the principle into practice . |