Example sentences of "[adj] government [verb] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new German government had gone a stage further , adopting a target of a net reduction in C02 emissions of between 25 and 30 per cent by the year 2005 . |
| 2 | French government plans to build a road tunnel through the Pyrenees have been blocked by a court ruling . |
| 3 | The French government has announced a moratorium on its nuclear weapons testing programme for the remainder of the year . |
| 4 | The French Government has imposed a tax on the use of waste disposal sites . |
| 5 | THE French government has launched a programme to set up a nationwide telecommunications research network , in an effort to catch up with Britain 's JANET system and Germany 's DFN . |
| 6 | The French government has launched a research programme to map the spread of the algae and to find ways of destroying them [ see ED 56 ] . |
| 7 | The local garrison of French soldiers at Abéché did not intervene , the French government having adopted an attitude of neutrality in what it regarded as an " internal affair " . |
| 8 | In December 1987 Mafart was allowed to return to France in defiance of the agreement because it was alleged he was ill , although the French government refused to allow a New Zealand doctor to examine him . |
| 9 | THE BRITISH government has extracted a price for generosity in providing funds for the British Antarctic Survey ( BAS ) . |
| 10 | The British Government has expressed a commitment to reducing the fuel consumption of organisations and institutions occupying non-domestic premises . |
| 11 | The British government has launched an advertising campaign to persuade householders to use less electricity and heating fuel as their contribution to reducing global warming . |
| 12 | For the first time a British government has established a mechanism enabling it to determine the content and purposes of education along broadly similar lines to other Western European democracies . |
| 13 | The Japanese government had indicated a willingness to provide " economic co-operation " to compensate for its colonization of Korea from 1910 to 1945 , but refused to accept any liability for the post-1945 period . |
| 14 | The Japanese government has criticized a plan proposed by Indonesia , Singapore and Malaysia to levy a toll on ships passing through the Malacca strait in order to pay for pollution of the seaway [ see ED 56 ] . |
| 15 | At home , the Japanese government has spearheaded a campaign to discredit reports that originated from its own news agency , Kyodo . |
| 16 | In 1976 central government did take an initiative to try to influence local policy-making in favour of the long-stay dependent groups . |
| 17 | In these circumstances the same output of OX 1 is provided after the central government has provided a cut in taxes which affects the median voter . |
| 18 | The tariff reform camp had a bonus in 1911 from events in Canada : Laurier 's Liberal government had negotiated a Reciprocity Agreement with the United States that cut across all of the arguments for imperial preference . |
| 19 | I invite Allied governments to consider establishing a Nato Arms Control Verification Staff . |
| 20 | THAT governments do make a difference is an important presumption of free competitive elections . |
| 21 | The creation of the welfare state and the expansion of local and national government has produced a range of ‘ welfare professions ’ , and has resulted in the growth of the medical and teaching professions and the greater employment of professionals in government bureaucracies . |
| 22 | In expanding on this point they do develop some important arguments concerning the constraints which would face a socialist government attempting to advance an AES ( for instance , the problems of ‘ forcing ’ investment referred to above , and the potential conflicts between such a government and the trade unions , given the need to raise labour productivity in order to develop a tenable trading position for the national economy ) yet ultimately their position tends to a form of defeatism . |
| 23 | On July 4 a goodwill visit to Port Vila by two Australian navy ships ( scheduled for July 9-12 ) was cancelled as a mark of Australian displeasure , and on July 29 it was reported that the Australian government had imposed a ban on all high-level contact with Vanuatu until Dec. 31 , 1992 . |
| 24 | It was announced on Sept. 2 that the Moldovan government had established a council to co-ordinate economic relations with Romania , presided over by Bulgarian First Deputy Prime Minister Nicolae Andronaci and including ministers and directors of enterprises and banking institutions . |
| 25 | The Swedish government plans to introduce a tax on carbon emissions in 1991 , at a rate of $150 per tonne of carbon . |
| 26 | The Swedish government has reaffirmed a pledge to phase out nuclear power by the year 2010 , but has reversed earlier undertakings to begin shutting down its 12 nuclear reactors in 1995 . |
| 27 | Once an arm of the Post Office as a government department , telecommunications was first re-located ( 1969 ) in a public corporation and is now experiencing a ‘ liberalisation ’ phase as the present government has introduced an element of competition into the provision of telecommunication services through re-definition of the British Telecom monopoly . |
| 28 | The International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) announced in a press release of July 12 that the Mongolian government had filed an application to join the IMF which would be considered " in accordance with prescribed procedures " . |
| 29 | The Japanese and Chinese governments have signed an agreement to carry out joint tests on equipment to desulphurize coal in Chinese power plants . |
| 30 | ITALY POST-WAR Italian governments have lasted an average of one year . |