Example sentences of "government [vb -s] [verb] for [det] " in BNC.

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1 The Government has argued for some time now that we live in a parliamentary democracy and that all decisions on behalf of the people will be made by Parliament .
2 If you add that to the er problems that the government has created for this County , as with other County Councils , then the two things make it quite impossible for us to continue with a capital programme as we would like .
3 Mr Newton made no mention of the future of child benefit , which the Government has frozen for each of the last two years years at £7.25 a week .
4 The government has paid for this by printing money , fresh austral notes , smelling cleanly of half-dried ink , and borrowing on the domestic market in amounts that raise interest rates sharply , drain the market of productive capital and swell the rate of inflation .
5 Yet the government intends to ask for more food relief this year .
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