Example sentences of "government [verb] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They did not snub him because he is too right-wing , but because his government has been incompetent . |
| 2 | The Government has been anxious to find a slot for such legislation but has not acted yet , partly because of a full parliamentary timetable and because of technical difficulties in defining which types of weapons should be outlawed . |
| 3 | It means the savings expected to follow council reform could be less than suggested — an issue which may become crucial since the Government has been anxious to demonstrate that dismantling the present two-tier council structure would bring meaningful savings . |
| 4 | The government has been obsessed with secrecy as is indicated by the prosecution of Clive Ponting and Sarah Tisdall over the disclosure of material covered by the Official Secrets Act and by their efforts to prevent the publication of Spycatcher by Peter Wright . |
| 5 | This stands in marked contrast to the emphasis on parental responsibility in recent child-care law developments , although it must be acknowledged that in extending parental rights in education the government has been keen to stress the duty of parents to involve themselves in their child 's schooling in various ( often ‘ consumerist ’ ) ways . |
| 6 | The government has been keen to encourage employees to buy shares in their privatised companies , in an attempt to improve industrial relations and productivity and to eradicate the ‘ them and us ’ attitude in industry , by improving employee identification with their company . |
| 7 | There appears to be no room for the bill in the present legislative session , but the government has been keen to maintain the momentum of its proposals for reform to the laws . |
| 8 | As visitors to Spain this summer will notice , the Government has been encouraging hoteliers to go ‘ up market ’ . |
| 9 | The second characteristic of these more successful countries follows from the first : government has been strong , and has continued to function . |
| 10 | The Thatcher Government has been critical of the growth of quangos . |
| 11 | So far , the Government has been unreceptive . |
| 12 | While government has been firm in its insistence upon the importance of personal qualities as a determinant of teaching quality , it has , however , been much less clear about what these particular qualities might be — sense of responsibility , awareness , sensitivity , enthusiasm and ease of communication being the only ones they have specifically identified , and then only in passing . |
| 13 | This point has been reinforced further by the findings of Goldsmith and Newton ( 1986 ) who show that , while the Thatcher government has been very directive towards local authorities on council house sales , by contrast it hardly involves itself in matters of environmental health ( a reflection of the much lower priority the Thatcher government gives to this policy area ) . |
| 14 | It appears that in practice the interim government has been unable to operate in Mogadishu and Mr. Qalib has based himself in a hotel in Riyadh in Saudi Arabia . |
| 15 | The loans were to be administered by a specially formed company under contract to the government ; but the government has been unable to secure the co-operation of the major banks , who were to be the chief participants in the new company , and the loans scheme is in disarray . |
| 16 | But until now the Government has been reluctant to take up their case . |
| 17 | Although the affair stinks of a set-up , the government has been able to manipulate the publicity to deflect some of the heat from the Bofors affair . |
| 18 | As a consequence , government has been able to expand the sphere of its operations at the expense of the peasant farmers whose primary produce formed the bulk of exports . |
| 19 | Unfortunately this has rebounded on local authorities since , operating under the principle of he who pays the piper calls the tune , Central Government has been able to impose severe restrictions on local authority spending , not only by curbing the total amount of the grant , but also by penalising local authorities who exceed targets imposed by the Central Government . |
| 20 | The Urban Programme has been one policy instrument through which the government has been able , if only at the margins , to influence the position of black people in the major conurbations . |
| 21 | This problem does not seem to afflict the radical right in the same way ; since the early 1980s the Thatcher Government has been able to implement radical change without alienating its newspaper support . |
| 22 | While the power of dismissal may be of limited use , where the government has been able to appoint a new rail chairman , it has the opportunity to shape a management team more in tune with its thinking . |
| 23 | So far as education is concerned , it is known that the government has been concerned for some time about an alleged willingness on the part of some teachers to bring the question of homosexuality out into the open in a way that seeks to normalise it as a form of human relationship . |
| 24 | The government has been quick to say that it plans to continue the economic policies that have pleased businessmen and kept the country relatively well-off . |
| 25 | At times when the government has been responsive to union calls for intervention , appeal to the minister has become a defacto final stage of the machinery . |
| 26 | The Conservative government has been sympathetic to these concerns and has launched a fierce rhetorical offensive against social liberalism , initiating or supporting measures designed to police the moral boundaries . |
| 27 | We do not suggest that the Conservative Government has been responsible for that , we doubt that a Labour Government would have done any better . |
| 28 | In presenting who gains and loses , the Government has been careful to cite figures based on the number of households . |
| 29 | At least since the early 1970s successive governments have expressed concern about the decline of our inner cities , but no government has been prepared to devote the massive resources which are now required to overcome decades of neglect . |
| 30 | There was some speculation that the Saudi government had been encouraging " worst-case " estimates in an effort to attract international assistance . |