Example sentences of "to the government " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , we can not speak to the government , but we can speak to you . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Now , we are asking you ’ — he stressed the word with some irony — ‘ we are asking you to join with us in a petition to the government for relief from the Act . |
| 3 | The Tranent folk had had a notion ( but look whit happened to them ) — say to the government , ‘ You can not trust us if ever you make us fight . ’ |
| 4 | Would he ever know which friends and fellows he had delivered over to the government in that one fatally careless moment ? |
| 5 | A response to the Government 's consultation paper : A new tax for local government by the Audit Commission . |
| 6 | The problem will then return to the Government 's desk , and I hope it will then accept that the country can have no more universities , and no more university places , than it can afford . |
| 7 | Many students , still bitterly hostile to the government despite a barrage of propaganda and weeks of political study classes , refused to take part in the celebrations , spending the day inside their dormitories . |
| 8 | All the submissions to the Government from the biotechnology industry have called for greater public information about genetic engineering , so no one can object to giving consumers the chance to make informed choices as they push their supermarket trolleys . |
| 9 | The party reacted with unnecessary embarrassment and defensiveness to government attacks on general talks it has been holding with the Greens , and its desire , as part of its traditional Ostpolitik , to press on with contacts with the Communist party in East Berlin despite the sudden surge of open opposition to the government by East German citizens . |
| 10 | The broadcasting levy paid to the Government rose a third to £4.8m . |
| 11 | Mr Dromgoole said this would flatten , if not drop in the new year , as the group reins back its activities to minimise the amount of levy paid to the Government . |
| 12 | This was the first year since he became leader of his party six years ago that Mr Kinnock was relieved of his preoccupation with an ungovernable party and was able to turn his attention properly to the government of the country . |
| 13 | The prosecution over safety in an Advanced Gas-Cooled Reactor , reactors which form part of the electricity industry privatisation , will come as an extra embarrassment to the Government and will further dent City confidence in the value of the nuclear assets . |
| 14 | But — to the government 's continued chagrin — striking tax workers marched through Paris yesterday , and at the Peugeot factories in eastern France the employment ministry has appointed an official conciliator in a last-ditch attempt to bring the unions and management to the negotiating table . |
| 15 | The document was a riposte to the government 's refusal to permit a campus commemoration on 29 September of the first big student protests against corruption a year ago . |
| 16 | ‘ It 's right to hand him back to the government of the country to which he belongs in the expectation that he will be properly treated and if he has committed a war crime he would be tried accordingly , ’ Lord Aldington replied . |
| 17 | However , his membership of the team could prove an embarrassment to the Government , which is subsidising his bid attempt . |
| 18 | A Coopers & Lybrand report to the Government on the possibilities of privatisation was delivered in summer 1988 , but since then the group has had little indication of what its fate might be . |
| 19 | But they rushed through another resolution surrendering control of the 60,000-strong Workers ' Guard to the government . |
| 20 | We do not want to be handing our paper profits back to the Government . ’ |
| 21 | He added that the measures announced yesterday would be the last change to the Government 's poll tax plans . |
| 22 | Charles Richards , in Maan , describes changing attitudes to the government |
| 23 | Wolfgang Vogel , the lawyer who negotiated deals for East Germans who took refuge in West German missions in the East bloc , had earlier appealed to the government to free the demonstrators and hundreds of people jailed for trying to escape through Poland , Czechoslovakia and Hungary . |
| 24 | Most of the swing back to the government occurred during the winter of 1986–7 and there was relatively little swing in the last few months before the election . |
| 25 | He draws attention to the ‘ French approach of dividing time into thirds — one third each to the government , the governing parties and opposition parties ’ . |
| 26 | In order to show how acute the problems were , let us return to the government 's handling of the railway network in 1922 . |
| 27 | The advent of the poll tax in Scotland in 1989 and in England and Wales in 1990 , with its heavy burden on working-class families in urban areas , enormously added to the government 's unpopularity . |
| 28 | Since there was little or no lending to the Government during the year 1967/68 , it follows that that billion and a half of expenditure was financed from one of two sources . |
| 29 | The advantage of this scheme is that you do n't need to remember to save the money which you would have paid to the Government later on ! |
| 30 | The choice , according to such critics , has been either to increase taxes to cover the public spending for the services — which was contrary to the government 's tax-cutting policies — or to reduce the scale of state provision of welfare . |