Government and Authority

1. The Post Office is only a few yards ________.

2. Be quiet! It’s rude to ________ people when they are speaking.

3. The 1950s were the ________ of this cult but one still hears references to it today.

4. Violence in the local prison has ________ two lives.

5. The Jury gave a unanimous ________ of Not Guilty.

6. It takes six weeks to ________ a man to do this job.

7. The completion of the new Town Hall has been ________ owing to a strike.

8. He visited an ________ castle in an old part of the city.

9. What measures have been ________ to control the crowd at Saturday’s football match?

10. Motorists _____ of speeding may be banned from driving for a year.

11. The victory was ________ annually by a ten-gun salute.

12. After years of war, the whole nation wanted to make ________ with their enemies.

13. It was ________ by the railways board that the cost of rail fares would be increased by ten per cent.

14. The government has lost a great deal of ________ because of the large increase in food prices.

15. It is not profitable to provide bus services in districts where the population is widely ________.

16. She began to feel nervous when the train pulled up at the ________ between Austria and Yugoslavia.

17. The Government will have ________ this proposal very carefully.

18. A ________ change in policy is needed if relations are ever to improve.