Example sentences of "government ['s] [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was helped by the obvious inadequacy , indeed fatuity , of the governments ' plans to protect their populations by civil defence . |
| 2 | After visiting Uganda , Ethiopia , Kenya ( where he was outspoken about Western governments ' attempts to pressurize African countries into hastening the pace of political reform ) and Mozambique , Mandela returned to South Africa on July 18 . |
| 3 | The problems of the British social formation were sufficiently pressing to demand at least rhetorical radical solutions from the parties ( Wilson 's ‘ planning ’ , Heath 's ‘ free market ’ ) , and governments ' failures to match their promises were of sufficient concern to the people to breed a serious disillusionment with party politics , yet I submit that for most people of all classes the problems were not considered so urgent as to demand a really radical questioning of existing social relations , with all the risks that would entail . |
| 4 | , A league table of governments ' contributions to UNEP reveals that the largest single donor is the USA ( $11.5 million ) , followed by Japan ( $6.8 million ) , the Soviet Union ( $5.9 million ) , and the UK ( $5.7 million ) . |
| 5 | Anti-narcotics agents see the arrests as test cases in the government 's efforts to curb next year 's harvest , which provides Britain with 80 per cent of its heroin supply . |
| 6 | The government 's efforts to join GATT could just pay off , but the bid to rejoin the United Nations ( in which communist China replaced Taiwan in 1971 ) is another matter . |
| 7 | In return the Colorados pledged support for the government 's efforts to draw up an economic plan to combat inflation and reduce the fiscal deficit . |
| 8 | The government 's efforts to reign in inflation led to interest rates reaching about 15.4 p.c. in early 1990 before being cut six times to the current level of 10.95 p.c |
| 9 | Since the early seventeenth century , despite the central government 's efforts to attenuate , curb or eliminate the worst abuses ( to the extent of publicly hanging the first Governor of Siberia , M.P . |
| 10 | An immediate outcome of the government 's efforts to implement this programme and raise basic consumer prices was the outbreak of riots in June 1990 which further highlighted the government 's unpopularity . |
| 11 | This it at once began to use to hamper the government 's efforts to cope with the desperate financial situation . |
| 12 | I would certainly join my honourable friend in condemning the advice which has been reported in the paper today er the government 's efforts to improve the campaign against truancy and the to succeed in getting errant pupils back to school which is where they should be , I believe is and should be widely supported . |
| 13 | But confusion and uncertainty surrounding the Government 's efforts to restore confidence in the colony are likely to continue after the Foreign Secretary , Mr Douglas Hurd , makes his long-awaited statement to the Commons this afternoon . |
| 14 | But confusion and uncertainty surrounding the Government 's efforts to restore confidence in the colony are likely to continue after the Foreign Secretary , Mr Douglas Hurd , makes his long-awaited statement to the Commons this afternoon . |
| 15 | The US government 's efforts to create a long-term repository for nuclear waste have received a setback with the announcement that a deep underground salt chamber in New Mexico provisionally selected for this purpose may be close to collapse . |
| 16 | A new government 's efforts to undo much of its predecessor 's work is damaging and disruptive . |
| 17 | Thus , as Austerberry and Watson point out , government 's efforts to increase the proportion of owner occupied housing in this country has the unintended consequence of profoundly affecting the property rights of women , particularly when marriage ends . |
| 18 | The government 's efforts to increase oil drilling in its Amazonian regions in conjunction with international oil firms provoked international protest because of the threat posed to Indian tribes such as the Waoranini . |
| 19 | In Brazil Bush thanked President Fernando Collor de Mello for adopting sanctions against Iraq ( one of Brazil 's major export markets ) and expressed his support for the government 's efforts to protect the Amazonian rain forest . |
| 20 | The government 's efforts to wipe out bourgeois liberalism abated during the summer of 1987 but many had suffered , from Hu Yaobang at the top to graduating students at the bottom . |
| 21 | Some stolen stock was allowed to be recovered by the traditional method — not , it can be imagined , without amusement on the part of the Masai , who had spent forty years resisting the government 's efforts to abolish that fighting spirit which was now deemed so commendable . |
| 22 | The publicity generated by the government 's efforts to ban the book ensured that it became an instant bestseller . |
| 23 | Although the Forum praised the French government 's efforts to bring " peaceful evolution to self-determination " in the French territory of New Caledonia , its desire to monitor the situation was rebuffed by the French government . |
| 24 | THE Government 's efforts to ensure that all 10 water authorities are successfully floated on the Stock Exchange in December are becoming more than a little disingenuous . |
| 25 | The government 's efforts to get a bill through parliament allowing soldiers to be sent to the Gulf in non-combat roles came to nothing . |
| 26 | Despite the government 's efforts to reduce the number of cars on the roads , the number of new private car registrations has increased from 99 000 in 1989 to 140 000 last year . |
| 27 | I thank my hon. Friend for the Government 's efforts to reduce the pressure on drift netting in the North sea , which will have a good impact on salmon fishing in Scotland . |
| 28 | The British Government 's accounts adopt very high levels of aggregation . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Urban violence , inadequate infrastructure and , at 3.1 per cent a year , the fastest population growth in southern Asia were among the chief obstacles in the way of the Bhutto government 's attempts to revitalize the economy . |