1.   For years governments have let scientists pursue the defenceless boson at public expense.

2.   The government has let the whole country go to pot.

3.   Analysts thought that the Brazilian government would let regional electricity companies compete to sell energy over a nationwide grid that would remain under state control, Binder said.

4.   And it has sparked sometimes angry debate over what happens when the government lets the public carry guns.

5.   At the start of his protest, the surgeon asked the government to let him retire from the military and to guarantee him safe passage to Venezuela.

6.   A Justice Department spokesman said the government let pass a Friday deadline for requesting review of the appeals court ruling in the case of Petty Officer Keith Meinhold.

7.   After a weeklong buying spree to prop up the slumping stock market here, the Hong Kong government let the free market take over Friday.

8.   But a Western diplomat charged that the government let Lo launder his money in legitimate businesses.

9.   But Mrs. Aung San Suu Kyi had made it clear she would not leave Myanmar for fear the government would not let her return.

10.   But the bank is eager to march into China as soon as the government there will let it.