Example sentences of "government [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Central government may assign a local authority a large guideline figure for capital expenditure but also assume it will finance a lot of it from sales of council houses , for example , and hence give a small credit approval . |
| 2 | He says that the squeeze on his income under a Labour government may mean that his wife would have to look for work , or he may seriously consider taking his skills abroad . |
| 3 | You 've got the District Council the County Council then the national Government may intervene by calling in the application . |
| 4 | And national or local government may offer subsidies for businesses to set up in favoured areas . |
| 5 | Thus the government may offer extra financial rewards to try to recruit scarce science teachers . |
| 6 | Alternatively , of course , a Conservative Government may stay in power , with , or without , the same Prime Minister . |
| 7 | The breadth of Montagnier 's assignment — to examine social and public health issues as well as current research — has prompted speculation that the government may appoint him to a new position of national AIDS coordinator . |
| 8 | I think our new government may make a tremendous mistake here by not realising this and failing to send any writers to prison . |
| 9 | The position of BAT leaders as assessors , funders and evaluators of projects and their role as the key link to other sectors of government may make for administrative efficiency . |
| 10 | Ryzhkov angrily denied the allegation , adding : " The government may make mistakes , but it is not corrupt . |
| 11 | Adversary politics and changes in government may make for " exciting politics , " but they produce " low-credibility Government strategies , whichever party is in power . " |
| 12 | In the case of matching grants the central government agrees to match a certain proportion of the expenditures of the local authority ; for example , central government may pay x per cent of the total cost of providing a service at the local level . |
| 13 | Political forces and corporate bodies may be more or less able to calculate the likely effects , ceteris paribus , of the implementation of their policies and demands , and the conservation/transformation effect is anyway likely to appear as the ‘ resultant vector ’ of non-coherent activities on the part of a whole range of such forces and bodies ( although , for instance , dominant positions within a government may give one political force more leverage than others ) . |
| 14 | But the Government may feel that as long as it is going to extend VAT it may as well slap newspapers for 17.5 per cent . |
| 15 | Or perhaps the Government may decide that the provision of cheap houses to its young supporters in the South-east is not as important as holding the thin green line , while cultivating the older guard . |
| 16 | They would , in return , assign not only their Polaris submarines , but also their V-bombers and tactical nuclear delivery systems to NATO , subject to the usual overriding proviso : ‘ except where Her Majesty 's Government may decide that the supreme national interests are at stake . |
| 17 | While the government may decide how much it wishes to spend on health care and it may seek to discourage employers from spending by changing tax incentives , the report said , the Fifth Amendment prohibits the government from ‘ barring individuals from using their own funds or their own insurance coverage to obtain appropriate medical care ’ . |
| 18 | But if there is a large group of potential claimants , the government may formalize the awarding of compensation . |
| 19 | There is also a suspicion that the Government may adjust local authority block allocations in the next financial year to take account of expected EC grant received . |
| 20 | The government may do this in order to help exporters , since a low exchange rate will make exports cheaper for foreigners to buy . |
| 21 | So , too , does some guess about where the government may set a capping limit . |
| 22 | The government may change the grants available , so it is essential to obtain up-to-date information . |
| 23 | household mobility means that differences in local preferences and in the policies of local government may reinforce each other … |
| 24 | Certainly the government may exert an indirect influence on these injections ( e.g. investment may be encouraged by lower interest rates ) , but the degree of control is not as powerful or certain as that which it exercises over government expenditure . |
| 25 | In more normal times the Government may exert pressure behind the scenes through the operation of the " D " notice committee . |
| 26 | There are several different approaches which a government may adopt when deciding on its merger policy . |
| 27 | For example , territorially based regional parties may adopt secessionist strategies or ‘ micro-nationalism ’ , whilst parties organizing ethnic groups or social classes excluded from representation in government may adopt ‘ ghetto politics ’ and refuse to participate in the political system . |
| 28 | Some observers also calculate that , if one takes account of the profits forgone from these enterprises in future years and sets them against the revenues raised now , the government may have sold the assets at too low a price . |
| 29 | People unhappy with the Major government may have told interviewers they intended to vote for one of the opposition parties even though they had not made up their minds or were even leaning towards the Tories . |
| 30 | The imminence of a Labour government may have persuaded some of the middle class to consult their interests rather than their tender consciences , and so return to the Tory fold . |