Task 3. Analyze the sentences with predicative constructions and
translate them into Russian.
1. All three governments,
pleading
national budget austerity, have
refused to permit any rise in over-all EU spending above a controversial
financial ceiling.
2.
Tackled
over the government’s promise to maintain and improve
the quality of education the Education Secretary admitted the cuts
would leave gaps in schools timetables but hoped schools would help
each other.
3. They wanted
a Government freely chosen
by the will of the people.
4. He said that the strike movement may turn into a national strike
bringing about the downfall of the dictatorship.
5. Unfortunately the point of view of this politician is becoming
increasingly widespread in the Western press. This is why it seems
expedient to review some of the arguments put forward by those
opposing the idea of such talks.
6. Opening a new session of Parliament, he disclosed that the regime
intends to introduce legislation providing for preventive detention even
when there is no official State of Emergency.
7. The peoples of all countries are vitally interested in seeing
further
steps taken
at the Foreign Ministers’ Conference in October.
8.
Being
monopoly
dominated
the most powerful of all industrial
countries, the United States pushed inevitably ahead for world mastery
with every available means at its command.
9.
Considering
the complexity of the problem, the decision was
reached at a rather early date.
10.
Not satisfied with
the plans for the creation of an independent
anti-fraud office, which could take months or even years, the Chancellor
of the Exchequer calls for the speedy appointment of an independent
fraud-buster within the commission’s existing antifraud squad.
11. The Belgrade Children’s Hospital in South London now faces a
threat to close all the beds,
meaning
that the only children’s operating
theatre in the district will shut down despite recent modernization.
12. The main reasons given were the large amount of work
commissioned
by the Government and the need to be satisfied that
future changes in fees were consistent with P.I.B. (Prices and Incomes
Board) policy.
13. Those who opposed the ‘showdown’ in the State Department – a
small and not very influential group at the time – saw
their viewpoint
being taken
increasingly into account by the White House.
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