Example sentences of "government 's [noun pl] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dramatic July developments were triggered by the government 's attempts to use its new legislative majority to circumvent normal procedure and enact a series of controversial measures prior to the conclusion of the current legislative session in late July . |
| 2 | An enormous number of Polish nobles , therefore , had survived the government 's attempts to relegate them to lesser estates . |
| 3 | In some cases the government 's attempts to tighten its control and impose administrative and cultural uniformity created nationalist opposition where virtually none had existed : this was most evident in the Baltic provinces dominated by a Germanic aristocracy and in the semi-autonomous Duchy of Finland . |
| 4 | In areas such as the Baltic provinces and the semi-autonomous Duchy of Finland , the government 's attempts to tighten its control and impose administrative and cultural uniformity created nationalist opposition where little had existed . |
| 5 | The spate of recent disturbances , aggravated by high prices , housing shortages and the cut in food subsidies imposed during the Gulf war , led the government 's opponents to accuse it of ignoring the poor . |
| 6 | Not surprisingly , therefore , the Government 's claims regarding who is better off have become an issue of intense dispute . |
| 7 | For most people , unaware of the implications of an obscure West Country helicopter firm , it was in other ways that the government 's problems showed themselves . |
| 8 | When the dockers walked out at Sharpness , responding to the Government 's plants to scrap their jobs for life guarantee under the National Dock Labour Board Scheme , they surprised their own union officials as well as the management . |
| 9 | When things are going wrong the Government 's supporters call it a failure of presentation and everyone trots out the old excuse that ‘ we are not getting the message across ’ . |