Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] by the [adj] government " in BNC.
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| 1 | He claims that Stanford has been leant on by the Chinese government and by American academics , who were scared that the door to China would be closed unless he was punished . |
| 2 | Can you say , Mr. Speaker , whether it would be in order , during any debate on the Maxwell group pension fund fiddles , to raise the subject of the fiddles carried out by the Labour Government in 1976 — |
| 3 | According to details reported on Aug. 8 , a study carried out by the Canadian government concluded that a mixture of energy efficiency and conservation would be the best approach to achieve the 20 per cent cut . |
| 4 | But an inquiry into how the accident happened would be carried out by the Danish Government 's Marine Department . |
| 5 | A survey of Central American women 's development programmes carried out by the Mexican government 's " Women 's Documentation Centre " in April 1982 produced from the Ministry of Education the following list of publications on women 's issues available in El Salvador : Vision Magazine ; Today At Home ; TV Guide ; Vanity ; Cosmopolitan ; Good Housekeeping . |
| 6 | To this end a campaign to grant the status of national park to a large wilderness area comprising about a sixth of the land area of the island is being carried out by the local government of Gran Canaria . |
| 7 | The ceremony , in the FMLN stronghold of Perquín in the north-eastern province of Morazán , was witnessed by Nicaragua 's Deputy Interior Minister and the chief of military intelligence , and by the Nicaraguan and Mexican ambassadors , whose presence had been accepted reluctantly by the Salvadorean government . |
| 8 | Last year Professor Brown was called in by the Italian government shortly after Mount Etna erupted . |
| 9 | The head of the Kuwait Investment Office ( KIO — a government agency based in London ) , Fouad Jaffar , returned to Kuwait in early March after being ordered to do so by the Kuwaiti government . |
| 10 | The plan clears up the legal wrangles set off by the federal government 's decision in 1988 to sue the state government over water quality in the Everglades , but leaves unclear many of the details of the clean-up . |
| 11 | These proposals were first aired publicly by the French government at the annual meeting of the IMF in September 1964 . |
| 12 | These were demanded relentlessly by the Russian government and by traders because of their commercial value , but they contributed nothing to the natural economy of the natives . |
| 13 | In its Report , presented in 1977 to Parliament , the working party set up by the Labour Government to develop further the idea of a Co-operative Development Agency , and broadly representative of the whole of the Co-operative Movement , declared of the three attempted rescues : |
| 14 | The last time there was an inquiry into activities which may involve cruelty to wild animals was the Scott Henderson Inquiry set up by the Labour Government in 1949 . |
| 15 | The National Working Party was set up by the federal government in 1988 to encourage the fair and accurate portrayal of women in the media . |
| 16 | Systematic excavation was begun on 30 July by a team of underwater divers from Stas ( the underwater archaeology team set up by the Italian government in 1986 ) headed by Claudio Mocchegiani Carpano and Roberto Petriaggi , together with the underwater unit of the Naples Carabinieri . |
| 17 | The reserve was the flagship of Project Tiger , the recovery programme set up by the Indian government and the World Wide Fund for Nature in 1972 . |
| 18 | The Foundation questions whether Project Tiger — set up by the Indian government and the World Wide Fund for Nature in the early 70s — can be termed a success , and suggests that tiger numbers in India now might be as low as when the project began . |
| 19 | One of the problems in evaluating the changes brought about by the Conservative government since 1979 is that of disentangling long term trends from the direct effects of policy initiatives . |
| 20 | Whilst DCT would not accept an Australian squadron , he did accept a Canadian squadron — No 405 — because he said the Canadians were actually getting their replacement crews direct from No 6 Group , which was the Canadian group wholly supported financially by the Canadian government . |
| 21 | Until 1980 , this was the British Country Club ; then it was taken over by the Regional Government and reverted to its original name , being opened as a Public park . |
| 22 | In 1981 NORP was taken over by the Bangladeshi Government , so that the funding that NORP had until then received directly from UNICEF was now channelled through the Government . |
| 23 | However , this turned out to be , in reality , another part of Kaiser Wilhelm 's expansionist policy , so the concessions were cancelled in 1905 and in 1914 , when Portugal joined in the First World War , all German interests were taken over by the Portuguese Government . |
| 24 | In the council chamber quite recently one of the Socialists supported the position taken up by the Soviet Government in Russia in a way that showed what would happen here if they got the power in their hands . |
| 25 | Spain 's Alcatel Sesa SA has taken control of two Polish companies , PZT Telkom , which employs 640 people in Warsaw , and Teletra , which has about 1,300 employees making public telephone exchanges ; Alcatel Sesa said it would guarantee jobs for 1,650 people at the two firms for the next 18 months and committed itself to increasing the capital of the two companies by another $25m within a year ; it plans to start manufacturing the Alcatel 1000 S-12 exchange in Poland , where it says it has already built eight digital exchanges in Poland with a $60m credit that was put up by the Spanish government . |
| 26 | The capital for the fund would be put up by the three governments . |
| 27 | The council endorsed the idea put forward by the British Government , and recently endorsed by the General Assembly , of a UN register of conventional arms transfers . |
| 28 | Opposition to the agreement was expressed both by the Turkish government , which feared that the clause on mutual defence could affect the status quo in Cyprus , and by left-wing parties in Greece , which wanted all the bases closed . |
| 29 | The importance of this was made evident following the results of another survey in April , this one carried out by the German Government , which identified that 46% of all tennis players suffer from tennis elbow as a result of impact shock vibration . |
| 30 | By early in the seventeenth century several of the states of Europe — France , England , the Dutch republic , Venice — already had permanent diplomatic representatives more or less securely established in Constantinope ( though the English and Dutch ones at least were for long concerned above all merely with the fostering of their countries ' trade : the former continued to be paid not by the British government but by a group of merchants , the Levant Company , until as late as the 1820s ) . |