Example sentences of "[adj] government [vb -s] [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The German government has announced the appointment of a commission to investigate an explosion at the Hoechst chemical plant in Frankfurt , which left one worker dead and another suffering third-degree burns . |
| 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 | Responsive government seeks to follow the preferences of its supporters , whereas strategic government action seeks to vote-maximize irrespective of the party 's own supporters ' preferences . |
| 8 | THE BRITISH government has extracted a price for generosity in providing funds for the British Antarctic Survey ( BAS ) . |
| 9 | The British government has ignored the advice of its own experts on the disposal of radioactive waste generated by hospitals and research institutes . |
| 10 | Since William Pitt 's day , in the late eighteenth century , the British government has recognised the absurdity of keeping multiple accounts — the crown 's revenue is the same whatever the source . |
| 11 | One problem relates to the grammatical word " have " when it is used to express past tense ( the " perfect " use of " have " ) : Women have been particularly targeted in magazines , especially during the Second World War , when the British government has realised the importance of women 's magazines as a channel of communication . |
| 12 | The British government has rejected the terms of a new European-wide agreement sponsored by the United Nations [ see ED 71 ] which would require cuts of sulphur-dioxide emissions by 80 per cent from 1980 levels . |
| 13 | This deplorable situation has come about because no British government has given the people of the Highlands and Islands the economic support that is given , for example , to Norwegians who live in difficult , out-of-the-way places . |
| 14 | IN ITS dying days , the British government has given the go-ahead for a controversial plan to build another oil refinery on Canvey Island in the Thames estuary . |
| 15 | The British Government has expressed a commitment to reducing the fuel consumption of organisations and institutions occupying non-domestic premises . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 ] . |
| 19 | At home , the Japanese government has spearheaded a campaign to discredit reports that originated from its own news agency , Kyodo . |
| 20 | As Japan has become an economically strong nation , the Japanese government has encouraged the building of national museums throughout Japan . |
| 21 | Unfortunately , as was earlier on , central government has led the attacks , it 's led the attacks through Sheehey right the way through , and we were supportive of our police then , I think not only of this county , but of all counties , and all county police forces said the same , and we will support our police force , and certainly this budget recommends itself to that . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Over the last few years the t Tory government has reduced the amount of wages inspectors . |
| 24 | The Bosnian government has condemned the plan for consigning Muslims , as it sees it , to ‘ concentration camps ’ . |
| 25 | In response to this situation ‘ the national government has made no response to the problem of erosion , and none is planned ’ ! |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The unanimity of the Conservative party in supporting Baldwin 's decision to join the National Government has masked the existence of growing backbench resentment on the part of protectionists . |
| 28 | The Swedish government plans to introduce a tax on carbon emissions in 1991 , at a rate of $150 per tonne of carbon . |
| 29 | The Swedish government has opposed the merger , which would create a European conglomerate with combined sales of SKr115 700m . |
| 30 | 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 . |