Example sentences of "uk government [verb] [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The UK government had issued a licence approving the dumping and was reportedly considering at least 10 further licences . |
2 | ( On Sept. 7 , at the end of a two-day debate for which the UK House of Commons had been recalled from its summer recess , the UK government had won a vote of confidence over its handling of the Gulf crisis , by 437 votes to 35 . ) |
3 | The UK government has announced a ban on the non-agricultural use of the pesticides atrazine and simizine , commonly used to clear weeds from roadside verges , railway lines and footpaths . |
4 | The UK government has announced a plan to give the public freer access to environmental information , in line with a 1990 EC directive on the subject . |
5 | The UK government has announced a number of measures to boost energy efficiency and the use of renewable energy sources . |
6 | The UK government has announced a series of new initiatives for the countryside , in a package involving £22.5 million of new expenditure spread over three years . |
7 | The UK government has announced the appointment of an advisory committee on business and the environment , composed of leading industrialists . |
8 | Since 1972 the UK government has adopted a policy of progressive reductions in the quantity of lead permitted in petrol . |
9 | The UK government has launched a grant scheme to encourage the restoration of damaged hedgerows and their maintenance as wildlife havens . |
10 | The UK government has ordered the closure for modifications of a Derbyshire incinerator which was emitting dioxins , after milk from three nearby farms was found to contain the chemical at densities above the permitted level . |
11 | The UK government has issued a consultation paper on the further protection of wildlife and habitats designed to conform with an European Community ( EC ) directive on habitats which is due to come into force in June 1993 . |