Example sentences of "government [modal v] have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , as we have argued , governments may have hidden agendas and their priorities may fluctuate according to political cycles . |
| 2 | By then governments may have woken up to a yet more radical option . |
| 3 | In part this may be justified because the UK competes in large world markets where the firms will have little monopoly power , but , given the documented lack of success of merged companies , successive governments may have encouraged too many mergers . |
| 4 | Sources predicted that there would be no sign of the frostiness which greeted Mr Spring 's suggestion , in a Guardian interview in July , that both Governments might have to bypass the parties and aim for joint rule . |
| 5 | Governments could have offset declining profitability by cutting taxes on profits or by increasing the generosity of tax allowances given for investment . |
| 6 | Governments would have to submit to the council of finance ministers rules or guidelines on budgetary policy that would go into national law . |
| 7 | Governments would have to give way more often to the opinions of back-benchers , and not force every measure through as a matter of confidence . |
| 8 | Governments would have to undertake solemnly not to seek to influence it . |
| 9 | What the addition of democracy to the liberal state did was simply to provide constitutional channels for popular pressures , pressures to which governments would have had to yield in about the same measure anyway , merely to maintain public order and avoid revolution . |
| 10 | It starts with about $380m over five years to help national authorities exchange information in areas such as taxes and export controls , says national governments would have to provide at least $6,700m over five years , it said , and wants another $7,900m or so over seven years to help all the Community 's backward regions to build up their telecommunications and computer infrastructures ; it says helpfully that loans will be available from the European Investment Bank to help with the effort . |
| 11 | The southern States , plus Texas , New Mexico and Arizona , would have to make the largest positive adjustments ( i.e. the largest increases in payments ) , whereas a number of northern State governments would have to reduce their levels . |
| 12 | But EC governments will have to agree on what changes to make to the Treaty of Rome by the end of 1991 , if the timetable is not to be derailed . |
| 13 | Governments will have to legislate eventually . |
| 14 | As sure as Concorde 's nose is pointed , the partners ' governments will have to subsidise this by coughing up so-called ‘ launch aid ’ . |
| 15 | First , the Freedom of Information Acts give an individual a right to information possessed by the government about him or her and the government may have to justify non-disclosure in court . |
| 16 | If the Commons defence committee thinks the government may have gone too far in defence cuts , I wonder what it would make of Labour and Liberal Democrat policies . |
| 17 | But the government may have to let Kowloon 's shadowy firms go on polluting . |
| 18 | For instance , government may have gained some pilot experience in attracting private money and management into certain areas like urban redevelopment and water resources . |
| 19 | The Government may have decided that membership of the exchange rate mechanism should be managed in such a way that we do not devalue , but if we wish to devalue , we can . |
| 20 | A spate of job losses , profit down-gradings and dividend cuts reflects the depth of the slump and observers feel that the Government may have to slash interest rates by a further 1% to 6% . |
| 21 | People unhappy with the Major government may have told interviewers they intended to vote for one of the opposition parties even though they had not made up their minds or were even leaning towards the Tories . |
| 22 | The imminence of a Labour government may have persuaded some of the middle class to consult their interests rather than their tender consciences , and so return to the Tory fold . |
| 23 | Can he tell the House a little more about any plans that he and the Government may have to recruit or to find peaceful employment for some of the rocket scientists and nuclear experts of Russia and , perhaps , even of the Ukraine ? |
| 24 | In the United States , the Attorney General has said that unless the American television industry substantially reduces violent programming over the next year , the government may have to intervene . |
| 25 | The government may have to offer a subsidy , or tax relief , to cable operators and subscribers willing to invest in the most adaptable system . |
| 26 | The truth is that the government may have had little choice but to move against the PAC . |
| 27 | Some observers also calculate that , if one takes account of the profits forgone from these enterprises in future years and sets them against the revenues raised now , the government may have sold the assets at too low a price . |
| 28 | I believe the government should have conducted a proper and wide review into the role and duty of auditors , not just in the area covered by these orders , but also throughout the whole of industry . |
| 29 | Some considered it to Mosley 's credit that a man who had the ability to attain the highest office in government should have ignored the rules of the political game because of his devotion to principle . |
| 30 | It is important to consider the link and the station together , and British Rail and the Government should have done so from the word go . |