Example sentences of "government [verb] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Government remain committed to the Anglo-Irish Agreement unless and until agreement can be reached on new and more broadly satisfactory arrangements . |
| 2 | In October 1889 , the British Government became determined not to allow any threat to the British strategical supremacy in South Africa , and that led to the outbreak of another Boer War , which included some humiliating defeats in the initial stages and the two great sieges at Ladysmith and Mafeking which were finally relieved in 1900 . |
| 3 | But ever since the Government became embroiled in the row over the plan to close 31 pits , local beer lovers have veered away from the pub with the Prime Ministerial name . |
| 4 | According to him , ‘ policy-making in British government became characterized by professional bureaucratic complexes based on specific functions : a series of vertical coalitions or policy networks in which central dependence on sub-national government ( SNG ) for the implementation of policy was complemented by SNG 's dependence on the centre for financial resources . |
| 5 | In effect , the government became trapped by its original , but incomplete , logic . |
| 6 | ‘ We deplore the manner in which the Government has ignored the united voice of the profession in respect of the composition of the Curriculum and Exams and Assessment Council , ’ stated the document , sent to the Department of Education . |
| 7 | The British government has ignored the advice of its own experts on the disposal of radioactive waste generated by hospitals and research institutes . |
| 8 | The Hong Kong Government has defended its decision to deny entry to two well known Chinese pro-democracy activists , Mr Chen Jun and Mr Wang Min , who were to take part in a seminar organised by students on the democracy movement in China . |
| 9 | Meanwhile property sales are in the doldrums , and the government has reneged on its agreement to let BR raise commuters ' rail fares by a real 3.5% a year . |
| 10 | The federal government has assumed responsibility for Columbia 's debts after the company went bankrupt , and California is now negotiating to pay off some of the monies owed by Maxxam in return for taking over the forest . |
| 11 | In keeping with its stance on regional neutrality the government has undertaken no studies of the regional impact of the Tunnel outside the South East despite the fears of more remote regions that their businesses will move to locations nearer the Tunnel or lose trade to southern and French competitors . |
| 12 | The list of reforms the Conservative government has undertaken in social security is long : the Fowler reviews ; the removal of young people from the benefits system , and Lilley 's categoric assurance that the youth training guarantee works ; the recent changes to the system of disability benefits ; and changes to the system of child maintenance . |
| 13 | In return for the group 's agreement to purchase and write off $4 million worth of Mexican debt from foreign creditors , the government has undertaken to carry out a $2.6 million programme of support for forest conservation efforts , with a particular focus on the Selva Lacandona , which is the largest remaining tropical rainforest in North America . |
| 14 | He predicted that the industry — which the Government has pledged will be privatised in the early 1990s — would be broken up before being sold , with each package containing a mixture of profit and loss-making pits . |
| 15 | The £200 million that the government has pledged to Alvey represents 60 per cent of the £350 million total spending proposed in last year 's Alvey report . |
| 16 | The Government has pledged to increase the number of assisted visits to two a month , and is putting more resources into prison visitor centres . |
| 17 | But the Government has pledged that all bills will be met , and extra funds have already been secured from the Treasury to pay for reconstruction . |
| 18 | The new " democratic " government has pledged billions of crowns to put right the damage caused by a 40 year industrial race with the West . |
| 19 | The British government has pledged to review planning procedures which allow development of important wildlife sites . |
| 20 | The Government has pledged to address the problem . |
| 21 | THE Government has pledged to keep tabs on radar detectors after The Northern Echo revealed how unscrupulous motorists used them to dodge speed traps . |
| 22 | ( Sadly , the commission will not report again because the government has disbanded it . ) |
| 23 | The first stage of a 60,000-hectare ( 150,000-acre ) industrial park , in which the Indonesian government has invested $570m , has just opened on the Indonesian island of Batam . |
| 24 | So far , the Saudi government has invested £10 billion through an oil-for-arms linked payment arrangement for a contract that is protecting 30,000 defence jobs in Britain . |
| 25 | The Government has invested £1.1m to make CD-Rom technology available in schools and apart from being available in many North-East schools our CD-Rom is widely used in schools as far afield as St Albans and London . |
| 26 | The French government has threatened to veto the vital Gatt agreement , aimed at averting a damaging international trade war , if its demands for a better agriculture deal are not met . |
| 27 | The French government has threatened to veto the vital agreement if its agriculture demands are not met . |
| 28 | In education and housing the government has limited the role of local government . |
| 29 | This , however , occurs at a time when the government has limited financial slack to be able to respond . |
| 30 | The Government has limited public sector pay rises to one point five per cent , although teachers will receive a rise of just above half of one per cent . |