Example sentences of "[noun] government [verb] [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Kazakh government has recognized the problem and has accepted a programme for the construction of appropriate burial sites . |
| 2 | Prime Minister Anerood Jugnauth , whose coalition government had won a majority in legislative elections on Sept. 15 [ see p. 38427 ] , announced on Oct. 22 that Mauritius would become a republic on March 12 , 1992 . |
| 3 | The Aquino government had resisted the return of the body on the grounds that it would have had a destabilizing effect on the country . |
| 4 | The Assam government had filed a suit in the Supreme Court arguing that its boundary with Nagaland should be based on the 1925 boundaries of the then Naga Hills district . |
| 5 | The Wilson government had supported the expansion of the universities following the Robbins Report , but the radicalism which the universities harboured in the late '60s was not generally translated into active support for Labour . |
| 6 | The United Kingdom Government has shared the Committee 's reservations as to the excessive use of Article 118A , and these have also been supported by other Member States in the Council . |
| 7 | Notwithstanding the constitutional changes which led up to the general election of July [ see p. 37603 ] , the Habré government had remained an alliance of faction leaders lacking any real popular support . |
| 8 | The wartime government had promised the troops they would return to ‘ homes fit for heroes to live in ’ , but the sick joke was that you had to be a hero to survive in them . |
| 9 | In February 1988 the Fiji government had sent a contingent of troops to Rotuma after an attempt by the islanders to secede [ see also p. 36700 ] . |
| 10 | The UK government had issued a licence approving the dumping and was reportedly considering at least 10 further licences . |
| 11 | ( 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 . ) |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The UK government has announced a number of measures to boost energy efficiency and the use of renewable energy sources . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The UK government has announced the appointment of an advisory committee on business and the environment , composed of leading industrialists . |
| 17 | Since 1972 the UK government has adopted a policy of progressive reductions in the quantity of lead permitted in petrol . |
| 18 | The UK government has launched a grant scheme to encourage the restoration of damaged hedgerows and their maintenance as wildlife havens . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | It was reported at the beginning of October that the Lao government had issued a decree suspending the commercial exploitation of timber resources . |
| 22 | In the modern period even the apparatus of Cabinet government has become a masking façade for monocratic rule by the British Prime Minister ( Benn , 1981 ) . |
| 23 | The Kaifu government attempted to win the support of the second-largest opposition party , Komeito , or Clean Government Party , which controlled sufficient seats in the upper house to ensure a pro-government majority . |
| 24 | However , the Miami Herald reported that the US government had overestimated the size of the station 's audience . |
| 25 | The US government had established a Fish Commission under Spencer F. Baird ( 1823–87 ) as early as 1871 to enquire into the depletion of fish stocks . |
| 26 | The US State Department on April 20 denied that the US government had approved the transfer by Saudi Arabia in the late 1980s and early 1990s of US-supplied military equipment to Iraq , Syria , and Bangladesh — as a recent report by the Los Angeles Times had alleged . |
| 27 | ( The US government avoided using the word " blockade " at this time , preferring to describe its intention as the " interdiction " of sanctions-breaking . ) |
| 28 | As Bromberg tells us at the beginning of her excellent mixture of history of science and politics , ‘ The US government has supported a research programme in fusion energy since 1951 , and in the 30 years through 1980 it has expended more than $2 billion . |
| 29 | How long it will remain confidential is a matter for debate , but the US government intends to control the technology 's export strictly , issuing licences only on a case-by-case basis and then only to ‘ US companies seeking to use these devices to secure their own communications abroad ’ . |
| 30 | The US government refused to release the ODA report , saying it was ‘ classified ’ . |