Example sentences of "government [vb mod] do " in BNC.
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| 1 | So too is the argument that governments should do the reverse and intervene less in the running of the economy , relying instead on market forces . |
| 2 | Governments could do little to turn immorality into morality , or bad characters into good . |
| 3 | But if you like , governments could do this for the non-teaching staff and not do that for the teaching staff . |
| 4 | And I think governments would do well to talk to the people at the sharp end , like magistrates , who use this system , work the system , liaise with all the various components in the system and do know what they 're talking about . |
| 5 | But in London , as in Washington or Paris , there is an increasingly fatalistic view that there is very little governments can do to prevent popular pressure for reunification . |
| 6 | The worst thing that governments can do is to retard this admittedly painful process with subsidies to obsolete industries , or protectionist barriers . |
| 7 | Statutes are only one of the means by which governments can achieve their policy objectives and there are , surprisingly , relatively few things which governments can do only with the approval of Parliament as expressed in the passing of a statute . |
| 8 | Even with these environmental improvements , for the policy to succeed it must attract residents of all socio-economic groups — and there is not much that governments can do about this . |
| 9 | However , and rather more fundamentally , Rose goes on to make the point that " the gap between what governments can do and what the public ( and for that matter , the government ) wants to achieve is greatest in the management of the economy " . |
| 10 | ( b ) Anything governments can do the market can do better . |
| 11 | A conscious decision is needed to get government out of things the private sector does better and to concentrate government on the basic things that only governments can do . |
| 12 | The government may do this in order to help exporters , since a low exchange rate will make exports cheaper for foreigners to buy . |
| 13 | There 's no doubt about it , the government should do a lot more and I 'm sorry to leave on this kind of basic note , the thing what really got was when they were talking about the coal miners and I mean , I know that particular area quite well , where they , they said we 'll put some money in for training ! |
| 14 | In order for the UK to emerge successfully out of recession , the last thing the government should do is to make the acquisition of new skills and ideas , through education and training more expensive . ’ |
| 15 | They set up a dichotomy thus : ‘ Rather than scheming as to what a Left-Labour government should do , it is vital to consider the political basis on which such a government will become a possibility . ’ |
| 16 | I have quoted these latter points at length because I can readily agree with them , and consider them important , but what I find politically weakening is the dichotomy between promoting socialist developments which do not depend on the existence of a socialist government and the stigmatised ‘ scheming ’ as to what such a government should do . |
| 17 | I therefore contend that ‘ scheming as to what a Left-Labour government should do ’ — in the sense of attempting to elaborate credible options for policy at a national level , while recognising the real problems involved — is actually a rather important part of developing ‘ the political basis on which such a government will become a possibility ’ . |
| 18 | they were strolling up towards Elterwater — ‘ it is an addiction , Mr Crump , worse than tobacco , worse even than alcohol — perhaps the government should do something about it , perhaps my friend Mr Pitt should put a tax on nature as his father put a tax on gin . ’ |
| 19 | The government did not have to concern itself with the balance of payments ( which was always expected to be favourable or self-adjusting ) , free trade meant that there was no need for elaborate connections with industry , the level of employment had to be left to the supply and demand for labour , and all that the government should do was elementary regulation in the interests of those sections of the community unable to defend themselves . |
| 20 | The least that the Government should do when designing the legislation is to address the needs of women bus users . |
| 21 | He says ; The Government should do nothing , no more laws . |
| 22 | And that appeal is really calling for three objectives : first that all member states of the United Nations do all in their power to curb Khmer Rouge military aggression and the terrorizing of civilians , secondly that the British government should take the initiative in urging member states and the appropriate U N agencies to give essential development and reconstruction aid for Cambodia and thirdly that the British government should do all within it 's power to help secure the safety of the hundred thousand Cambodian refugees in Khmer Rouge camps in Thailand , by calling for their transfer to neutral camps under U N supervision . |
| 23 | Yes , they will go , but the government should do two things , and it should have done them in the White Paper announcement ; it should have said ‘ we are proposing to get rid of all advantages for company cars in tax terms and we are proposing to make sure that people pay by paying more road tax or more petrol costs if they have high gas-guzzling cars ’ . |
| 24 | I think they 're being irresponsible , I think we 're being responsible , and I make no apology er for borrowing when it 's for investment in our own future , that 's what intelligent companies do , it 's what an intelligent government should do . |
| 25 | Archbishop Tutu said in a statement that he had asked to see the President in an effort to spell out what the white minority government must do to resolve South Africa 's political crisis . |
| 26 | Mining unions who 've been told even more pits may soon close say the government must do more to secure orders . |
| 27 | ‘ We believe that the British Government must do more to oppose the job discrimination that has created unemployment levels two and a half times higher for Catholic workers than Protestant workers . |
| 28 | Indirect control through taxes or charges runs the risk that the government might do its sums wrong and set the tax too low . |
| 29 | In principle , the government might do this at least as effectively as private markets . |
| 30 | But he warned the next would be bigger and would bear directly on what a Labour government could do . |