Government and Authority

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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