Example sentences of "[prep] [art] government over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Interviewed on the BBC 's Today programme , he defended the record of the Government over the past 13 years . |
| 2 | The Catholic Church has now questioned — at great risk — the total control of the government over the minds of its citizens . |
| 3 | Michael Barnes was forty-five , an Oxford-educated barrister who specialized in planning law and whose main involvement in major public inquiries had been on behalf of the government over the proposed Stansted Airport . |
| 4 | The abolition of the heritable jurisdictions in 1747 substantially increased the influence of the Government over the Scottish voters by effectively restricting judicial patronage to the Crown . |
| 5 | The article quoted the former editor of the Catholic News , Edgar D'Souza , who accused Lee of using the controversial Internal Security Act ( ISA ) against the Church and of " tricking " the Catholic Archbishop of Singapore , Gregory Yong Sool Nighean , into appearing at a press conference in support of the government over the arrests . |
| 6 | The European Environment Commissioner , Carlo Ripa di Meana , has written to the UK Transport Secretary , Malcolm Rifkind , demanding that work on three controversial road development schemes should halt , pending the result of legal action by the Commission against the government over the alleged failure to carry out detailed environmental impact assessments ( EIAs ) , as required by EC law . |
| 7 | Friends of the Earth has been given permission by the High Court to pursue a legal case against the government over the level of pesticides in drinking water in the Thames and Anglian regions . |
| 8 | He acknowledged they were at odds with the Government over the agreement , but said the North Down association would support the party manifesto . |
| 9 | The Charter , backed by David Hatch , managing editor of Radio 1 , is considered a defensive move by the BBC as it prepares for difficult negotiations with the government over the issue of privatisation of the national network . |
| 10 | The violence had placed severe strains on the ANC 's relationship with the government over the issue of perceived police partiality towards Inkatha supporters , and had delayed the holding of negotiations on a post-apartheid constitution . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , it came after a series of disagreements with the government over the previous 18 months . |
| 12 | The societies have been at loggerheads with the Government over the past 12 months after Mr Lamont introduced a series of savings offers which attracted revenue away from the societies . |
| 13 | THE British defence industry has taken a battering from the government over the past decade . |
| 14 | Anticlericalism elsewhere was sometimes simply a matter of anti-Roman pinpricks , as in Great Britain , when agitation arose about aristocratic conversions to Rome and the British Reformation Society could protest to the government over the appointment of a Roman Catholic viceroy of India and a Roman Catholic lord chamberlain . |
| 15 | The Hungarian Democratic Union in Romania ( HDUR ) protested to the government over the appointments , and Hungarian demonstrators in the two counties — Covasna and Harghita — said on July 23 that they would wear a yellow star " a symbol of sad memories of civil intolerance and discrimination " if the decision were not revoked . |
| 16 | That level of investment , currently running at £1 billion a year , will be sustained by the Government over the public expenditure planning period which runs for the next three years and , I am quite confident , will run over the next 10 years . |
| 17 | The Inter-American Development Bank ( IDB ) granted a US$425,000,000 loan package on Sept. 18 , primarily aimed to assist the sweeping external trade reforms decreed by the government over the previous year . |
| 18 | Beveridge became more sanguine about the level of full employment which could be achieved at the same time as he proposed less control by the government over the economy . |
| 19 | Late or inadequate action by the government over the production of pollutants is endemic . |
| 20 | £221 million in tax could be easily saved by the simple use of the tax-efficient financial products which have been introduced by the Government over the last ten years ; |
| 21 | In this sense the ERM and the Single Currency are different points on a continuum leading to the loss of all control by a government over the value of its currency . |