Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the [adj] government in " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was the area that was attacked by the Tory Government in their valuations and that is why we had the revolt . |
| 2 | Indeed the so-called ‘ Revolution Bill ’ , the Umsturzvorlage proposed by the German government in 1894 to ward off the threat of revolution , made criticism of the family as an institution punishable by drastic penalties . |
| 3 | Then a policy directive in 1977 reinforced by the new government in 1979 , also insisted that InterCity should run commercially even if other parts of the passenger business were to receive grant-aid under the 1968 Act . |
| 4 | Despite the insistence of Serbia that its actions were illegal , the Kosovo Assembly ( dissolved by the Serbian government in July 1990 — see pp. 37621-22 ) organized a referendum on Sept. 26-30 on sovereignty for the 92 per cent Albanian-speaking province of Kosovo , and proceeded on Oct. 19 to elect a provisional coalition government , headed by Bujar Bukoshi , which was recognized on Oct. 22 by Albania . |
| 5 | They encompass the area designated as autonomous Croatia in an agreement made with the federal government in Belgrade in 1939 . |
| 6 | In April AI appealed to the Iraqi Government in the strongest possible terms to put an immediate end to the mass deliberate killing of unarmed civilians and the summary execution of government opponents and their suspected supporters . |
| 7 | This is not the place to review housing policy since the war , except to note that market criteria asserted themselves again during the 1950s under the Conservative governments and were accepted by the Labour government in the mid-1960s . |
| 8 | In late February the UN boundary commission was preparing a report which would reinstate the 1923 border with Kuwait , delineated by the British and accepted by the Iraqi government in an agreement with Kuwait in 1963 . |
| 9 | The world 's needy have been deprived of £10 billion of aid due to the cuts made by the present Government in Labour 's programme . |
| 10 | The most recent attempt was made by the Labour government in the late Sixties . |
| 11 | The ( Wheatley ) Royal Commission on Local Government in Scotland ( 1966–9 ) saw its proposals ( 1969 ) largely adopted by the Conservative government in the Local Government ( Scotland ) Act , 1973 , which became effective in May 1975 . |
| 12 | The policy was adopted by the Mexican government in part with a view to forming a well-populated " buffer zone " on the border with Guatemala , where the forest is situated . |
| 13 | The tide turned against the Labour government in its marginal defeat in 1951 because of what was seen to be its still strong commitment to state regulation and control and because of the new-found attractiveness of the free-market ideology offered by the Conservatives . |
| 14 | After Gen Zia 's coup of 1977 , he served as railways minister in the military government in 1978-79 . |
| 15 | The elder Coxe died 19 January 1730 ; at that point he retained the title to Carolana , which his descendants surrendered to the British government in return for land in the colony of New York in 1769 . |
| 16 | Over the years , the price of that work leapt from $6,000 ( an appraisal Hoelzer offered to the federal government in 1972 ) to more than $60,000 ( a 1980 estimate by Hoelzer of what it would cost to fully repaint , line and mount the panels ) . |
| 17 | The leader of the Union of the Gabonese People ( Union du peuple gabonais — UPG ) , Pierre Mamboundou , who had been accused by the Gabonese government in October 1989 of planning a coup attempt against Bongo [ see p. 36967 ] , was expelled to Senegal from France on Feb. 28 , 1990 , on the orders of the French Minister of the Interior . |
| 18 | Such schools might , gradually , become selective , and indeed might be very like the old direct grant schools , abolished by the Labour Government in 1966 . |
| 19 | The Land Commission was abolished by the Conservative government in 1971 , but a summary account of its powers and operations is appropriate . |
| 20 | I have with me the defence White Paper produced by the Labour Government in 1979 . |
| 21 | A declaration in April by the governing coalition emphasized the environment , social progress and social justice as major planks in the coalition 's programme , and disagreement later arose with the federal government in Bonn concerning among other matters the SPD/AL coalition 's proposal to ease restrictions on asylum-seekers arriving in West Berlin . |
| 22 | Towards the end of June , however , it was reported that neither the Irish government nor the Northern Ireland Social and Democratic Labour Party ( SDLP ) could agree to the wording of a statement which Brooke had planned to make and which was to include a consideration of the role to be played by the Irish government in devolution talks . |
| 23 | Senator Albert Gore , one of the most respected and influential members of the Democratic Party , on June 24 called for a " formal investigation " of the " October Surprise " allegation — the claim that the Reagan-Bush campaign team had negotiated with the Iranian government in 1980 in order to reap electoral advantage by delaying the release of 52 US hostages held in Iran . |
| 24 | Many states specified a minimum private income which recruits to their diplomatic services had to have ( for example the 6,000 lire demanded by the Sardinian government in 1856 which continued to apply in the new united Italy , or the £400 required in Britain ) . |
| 25 | The urban development corporations first introduced by the Conservative government in 1981 are one example of this . |
| 26 | The reductions in university places introduced by the Conservative government in the early 1980s are likely to widen even further the gap between the higher and the lower socio-economic groups among the student population . |
| 27 | This research is exploring this relationship via a detailed examination of the origins , operation and effects of the Assisted Places Scheme , introduced by the Conservative government in 1981 to provide places in certain independent schools ‘ for academically able children whose parents can not otherwise afford the full tuition fees ’ . |
| 28 | In return the states agreed to co-operate with the federal government in reducing duplication of health and welfare services , cutting losses in state-owned businesses , co-ordinating infrastructure spending , and harmonizing regulations in areas such as environmental protection and professional qualifications . |
| 29 | The Federal Radio Corporation ( FRCN ) , established after the dissolution of the old Nigerian Broadcasting Corporation , is a statutory corporation whose members are appointed by the Federal Government in Lagos . |
| 30 | A US-financed $35,000,000 military aid programme , announced by the Peruvian government in late April to counter drug production in and left-wing guerrilla control of the Upper Huallaga valley , was held up in May due to a hostile domestic political response . |