Example sentences of "government would have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Governments would have to submit to the council of finance ministers rules or guidelines on budgetary policy that would go into national law . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Governments would have to undertake solemnly not to seek to influence it . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Any post-war government would have met Unionist critics in its reconsideration of Britain 's imperial role , but the existence of a bipartisan policy did not help to secure acceptance . |
| 8 | With neither the political crisis that Labour 's resignation from the Government would have caused , nor the industrial explosion , which — however much pacifists might fear it — would undoubtedly have created new possibilities for their politics , the momentum that had been building up since the Russian Revolution nearly a year earlier was sharply checked . |
| 9 | M. Look , if there are enough of us who believe the bomb is wicked and that a decent nation could never think of having it , whatever the circumstances , then the government would have to do something . |
| 10 | I believe that the Government would have kept the matter secret for much longer if the draft letter had not been leaked . |
| 11 | A Labour government would have to define what that meant . |
| 12 | The opposition New Progressive Party ( PNP ) claimed that victory for the government would have strained relations with the USA and have led to the possible loss of student scholarships and federal food aid . |
| 13 | To the social reforms any left-of-centre government would have wanted to make , the Socialists added a large helping of the special Greek look-after-your-own system . |
| 14 | As David Trippier from the Department of the Environment said , this is two-and-a-half years ahead of the schedule laid down by the Montreal protocol — and the government would have liked it even faster . |
| 15 | We would have had to make something like 10 million pounds in cuts , largely in schools and the Government would have ignored the protests against these wicked cuts . |
| 16 | It would require patience and a Labour government would have to continue to meet its obligations to Nato , to service personnel and to workers in the defence industries . |
| 17 | The British Government would have to respond . |
| 18 | We do not suggest that the Conservative Government has been responsible for that , we doubt that a Labour Government would have done any better . |
| 19 | To the extent that non-governmental bodies perform functions which government would have to perform if they did not , there is no good reason why such bodies should not be subject to judicial review in the same way as a government body performing equivalent functions would be . |
| 20 | A truly democratic government would have realised the populace was against the tax and abandoned it immediately . |
| 21 | If it were consistent the government would have to view these variations too as evidence of inefficiency . |
| 22 | Did the trade union movement really fail to grasp that the two pre-conditions were : first , that its sense of responsibility must be seen not to be limited to a commitment in the shorter term to contribute to recovery from immediate crisis , but to extend , at the expense of short-run advantage , to the longer term commitment , to the revival of British industry and to its successful competition in world markets ; and secondly , that a Labour Government would have to preside over the management of the country 's affairs ? |
| 23 | The government would have to borrow more outside or spend less . |
| 24 | But Mr Kinnock stressed in his speech that given the inevitable and unprecedented ‘ mess ’ which would be left behind by Mrs Thatcher , a Labour government would have to set — and unflinchingly stick to — four basic priorities . |
| 25 | A Labour government would have clung to the current parity in the ERM while suffering continual assaults on its aims and methods by a business and financial establishment wholly converted to the values of Thatcherism . |
| 26 | ‘ If it had not been for the Liberal Democrats , the government would have lost . ’ |
| 27 | I do not believe that a Conservative government would have aroused hostility at that pitch , but the difference between a Tory government and a Labour government was that the latter threatened , or was thought to threaten , the money and positions of the rich — a threat which moved the rich to unreasoning hostility . |
| 28 | As I have said before , I do not believe that a Labour Government would have embarked on any of this . |
| 29 | Although the Labour party failed to mount a sufficiently large campaign against the non-intervention policy , there seems little doubt that the government would have continued along its agreed course . |
| 30 | Private enterprise-led , of course , as the Government would have wished . |