Example sentences of "[adv] to [art] government " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lewis 's statement , which wrote off the competition , was allowed to pass unnoticed , and the whole embarrassing affair , much to the Government 's relief , might well be forgotten had it not been for the persistence of Beresford Hope . |
| 2 | These pragmatic reforms have much to commend them — especially to a government that is ready neither for new legislation nor for big increases in regulatory costs . |
| 3 | ‘ We are being asked to ensure patients get certain benefits , but surely this is down to the Government , ’ said Mr Richardson . |
| 4 | ‘ We are being asked to ensure patients get certain benefits , but surely this is down to the Government , ’ said Mr Richardson . |
| 5 | He has encouraged me to reapply to the Government Information service to be kept apprised in case the two departures from the Scottish office , one gone and one going December , mean there may be a vacancy . |
| 6 | The only thing left to do was to get him in to the government hospital seventeen miles away , so we set out across the rice fields and village tracks , with the patient in a bullock cart . |
| 7 | It said , if Labour get in to the government today , will the last person who leaves Britain please put the light out . |
| 8 | However , before racing ceases to be a single-parent sport , the Jockey Club deserves full credit for not only having forged ahead with the Sunday fixtures but also firing the well-aimed salvos that finally got through to the Government the iniquities of the level of VAT being charged on the breeding , rearing and racing of bloodstock in this country compared with France and Ireland . |
| 9 | I was grateful to him for his tribute to the members of the two boundary committees , they did do an excellent job , they did it as he implied , slightly less un generously to the government er in a considerably shorter time than they and we would have liked but they did it very well and they did it very fairly . |
| 10 | Would he ever know which friends and fellows he had delivered over to the government in that one fatally careless moment ? |
| 11 | To give themselves ready cash , some American airlines want to keep a 10% ticket tax for up to a year before handing it over to the government . |
| 12 | Many schools were established by communities on a self-help basis , with the intention of handing them over to the government . |
| 13 | An investigation into Ouko 's murder was carried out by police officers from the United Kingdom ; the results , handed over to the government in September , were not made public . |
| 14 | As of late July both camps were surrounded by army units and Murr insisted that the blockade would continue until all heavy and medium-calibre weaponry had been turned over to the government . |
| 15 | NVA barracks and training areas were being handed over to the government for civilian use as rapidly as possible . |
| 16 | Looks like it 's over to the Government , Kirsty . |
| 17 | However , although the sale of a nationalised industry will provide a once-off boost for government finance , it should not be forgotten that the profits of the company , once privatised , will thereafter accrue to the private shareholders and not to the government , thereby reducing government revenues in the future . |
| 18 | Men , it is often said , give their allegiance not to the government of the day but to the state . |
| 19 | Her anti-slavery works include appeals to British women and ‘ not to the Government , but to the People of England ’ . |
| 20 | Because no indisputable evidence has been offered that the Tigers were to blame , conspiracy-minded Sri Lankans suspect other villains , perhaps close to the government itself . |
| 21 | Their arrest followed press reports of allegations by unidentified members of the opposition that private armies were being assembled by people close to the government , including the former Minister of Energy and IndustryKiprono Nicholas K. Biwott [ for whose dismissal from office see p. 38563 ] . |
| 22 | Independents without political affiliation but regarded as close to the government took 13.8 per cent of the vote and the loyalist Union constitutionelle 13.4 per cent . |
| 23 | Levels of pesticide in some samples of cereals and flour were as high as in non-organic produce , with levels of lindane , which attacks the nervous system in excessive quantities , close to the government 's safety limit . |
| 24 | In the form in which the proposals on community service appeared in the Bill they owed something also to the Government 's hope that the new measure would be seen as a credible alternative to custodial sentences , thus contributing towards the aim of bringing down the prison population . |
| 25 | After four years of economic boom , 1990 saw a slowing down of the Spanish economy , as a result in part of the impact of the Gulf crisis on oil prices but due also to the government 's restrictive monetary policy , which was designed to bring Spain 's currency and rate of inflation more into line with those of other members of the European Communities ( EC ) . |
| 26 | At the same time , there were other events which very considerably strengthened the lead from the centre and made it more likely that LEAs would respond positively to the government 's initiatives . |
| 27 | Of every hundred pounds that 's invested , round about forty pounds goes straight to the government in betting duty , round about thirty pounds goes to the football pools in expenses , commissions and profits , leaving round about thirty pounds to be returned in prizes , and so you can see that your rate of return on football pools is extremely small , but on the other hand a very large number of people do enter the football pools , and when they win they can win considerable sums of money and it can make absolute rational economic sense to go in for football pools because you are giving yourself a chance , no matter how small , of winning a sum of money that you would n't expect to come across in any other way of your life . |
| 28 | If so , is not that due partly to the Government 's support for small firms ? |
| 29 | Whilst paying lip service to the concepts , the CEGB remained unconvinced that it should bother seriously with either conservation or the renewable sources of energy , especially if it meant abandoning Hinkley C. It was up to the government to decide whether to provide incentives for energy efficiency , whilst the renewables must wait until pilot projects showed their worth . |
| 30 | In such a small country it is up to the Government to take a strong stand against unsuitable developments . |