Example sentences of "government [noun pl] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The publication of government maps showing which power stations most need the installation of equipment to curb acid emissions has been withheld until after share applications for the two electricity companies have been tendered . |
| 2 | After all , the Louvre uses private donations rather than government funds to make its most expensive acquisitions . |
| 3 | For a while the television channel went off the air as protesters swarmed into the building , before troops and government supporters pushed them out . |
| 4 | An appeal has been launched for government officials to improve their understanding of the importance of preserving nature , and to enforce local restrictions on the poaching , purchasing and smuggling of wildlife . |
| 5 | Our mountain — Chong Kumdan — lay to the east of the Siachen , and although still in a sensitive area , was far enough from the fighting to persuade government officials to sanction our visit . |
| 6 | Government officials say they aim to reform the economy gradually while shielding the country 's ten million people from the pain of full-blooded ‘ shock therapy ’ as attempted in Russia and elsewhere . |
| 7 | Government officials committed themselves to ensuring that there would be no net loss of US wetlands and expressed the hope that the proposals would end the stalemate between environmentalist and business groups on the wetlands issue . |
| 8 | King Fahd ibn Abdul Aziz declared that the disaster was " God 's unavoidable will " , and government officials described it as an " accident " and due to " panic " following the collapse of a pedestrian access bridge , denying that a power cut had halted the air supply in the tunnel . |
| 9 | But as the UN announced the talks , planned for the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa , Angolan government troops fought their way towards the besieged central city of Huambo . |
| 10 | ‘ Government regulations make it extremely difficult to move it by road , ’ said Allister Anderson , of Nuclear Services at Peel Park , who became involved at this stage . |
| 11 | It is fighting government efforts to sell its healthiest businesses , arguing that the rest of the group may collapse if they go . |
| 12 | Efforts to reduce stocking densities have met with little success due to the significance of cattle as a source of wealth and prestige rather than a source of income ( IBRD 1977a ; Doran , Low & Kemp 1979 ) , so that herd size has actually increased between 1968–77 in spite of government efforts to reduce it ( this being discussed further in Ch. 7 ) . |
| 13 | But other securities such as government bonds have their yields quoted before income tax . |
| 14 | Villagers have fallen into the role of waiting for the nurse to cure their sicknesses , the agricultural extension worker to apply the latest gardening technique and government officers to inform them on political developments . |
| 15 | Government sources denied there were any deliberate attempts at a cover-up . |
| 16 | The company says you ca n't just sell technology alone to commercial accounts and its Fortune 500 and government customers have lots of PCs and Macs and a whole lot of character terminals . |
| 17 | Government orders forbade anyone to show the natives how to use such weapons , yet inevitably they did on occasion obtain them and use them to deadly effect , though their culture might be basically Stone Age . |
| 18 | Similarly , home ownership offers freedom from interference by others , since the home owner does not have a landlord to worry about , nor local government bureaucrats controlling his destiny . |
| 19 | Meanwhile , Tadpole has picked up a second firm , Isometrics , to peddle the Sparcbook to the US government , and says a second strategy to make it easier for US government bodies to buy its technology will be revealed in a couple of weeks ( UX No 381 ) . |
| 20 | The president of the employers ' federation , the Union Patronale de Côte d'Ivoire ( UPACI ) , Joseph Aka Anghui , cited rampant fraud , inefficient bureaucracy , price controls and high taxes as key problems affecting industry ; he also complained of the failure of government bodies to meet their debts to the private sector . |
| 21 | The most important of these abolished the army which had in effect ruled the country from 1968 to 1989 , created the office of ombudsman to protect the individual and social rights of citizens , and established the full autonomy of the Electoral Tribunal , guaranteeing it 0.7 per cent of current central government finances to enable it to operate effectively . |
| 22 | It is about time that Government departments sorted themselves out and adopted the same approach to business taxation |
| 23 | I extend a standing invitation to any firm that is not being paid on time by any of the country 's 100 largest companies or Government Departments to allow me to take up its case individually . |
| 24 | 10% of all vehicles in New Zealand are NGVs , while US legislation enforcing the adoption of cleaner alternative fuels has resulted in many government departments converting their fleets to run on natural gas . |
| 25 | Politicians espouse it ; government departments ignore it at their peril . |
| 26 | The social science Data Archive has even less muscle , relying entirely on the goodwill of government departments to deposit their material . |
| 27 | The ever broadening range of involvement by government departments makes it difficult to trace the evolution of policy through Whitehall or to interpret decision making in development planning , and researchers are presented with a bewildering complexity of sources which hinders efficient and economic research . |
| 28 | And today , his future is in the balance , as Government whips deliver their verdict to No 10 — that the vote is ‘ too close to call ’ . |
| 29 | The municipalities of Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro , despite government threats to cut their funding , raised bus fares by 40 per cent on Feb. 1 . |
| 30 | Panama and Costa Rica had yet to ratify the SICA protocol , but their government leaders expressed their determination to participate . |