Example sentences of "[art] government [verb] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our system of criminal justice demands that the government seeking to punish an individual produce the evidence by its own independent labours , rather than by the cruel , simple expedient of compelling it from his own mouth . |
| 2 | The government hopes to pick a winner in May but the selection could be delayed . |
| 3 | Despite the process of democratization , the government continued to pursue a number of these dissidents through the courts . |
| 4 | Although the government managed to survive a no confidence vote in the Knesset on Jan. 27 , Prime Minister Itzhak Shamir had made it clear shortly after the departure of Tehiya and Moledet that he favoured holding an early general election ( elections were due to be held before November 1992 ) . |
| 5 | It is all very well for the Government to pretend to mount a campaign against drugs and drug imports , but at the same time they have allowed another Department , the Treasury — Conservative Members do not want to hear — to cut 400 customs officer jobs . |
| 6 | So that all sections of the community can have confidence in the security forces , will the Government undertake to make a statement to the House after the conclusion of the Nelson case ? |
| 7 | The government refuses to release a Scotland Yard report on the death , and is instead running its own commission of inquiry . |
| 8 | Ministers may try to make a statement ( they secure this every Thursday with the weekly business statement ) ; the Opposition may seek to have a Private Notice Question ; the Government prefer to have a debate on a Government motion or bill ; the Opposition would like to have an Opposition Day when it opens the debate ; and backbenchers seek to get in with points of order and applications for emergency debates . |
| 9 | By not calling it a ‘ Nuclear Obligation ’ , the government hoped to avoid a charge of totally rigging the market and could be seen to at least throw out a lifeline to the renewables . |
| 10 | The prospect that the primate centre could be closed raised such a storm of protest that the government agreed to delay a decision until after the completion of a report on the centre 's performance by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences . |
| 11 | On May 13 the government agreed to sign an accord with Iran providing for the despatch of a 50-strong Iranian team to help put out oil fires in Burgan province . |
| 12 | The government does have a choice if it did n't want us to live like this then we would n't have to . |
| 13 | Although his speech to Edinburgh University students will spell out the need for the creation of a level market place which is supported not supplanted , he will also make clear that he believes the Government does have a role in ensuring Scotland prospers and in attracting industry . |
| 14 | As reported in the local press on July 18 , Fajgembaum had suggested ( i ) that if the government wished to obtain a $2,000 million extended IMF loan it should eliminate a constitutional law guaranteeing individual states a share of federal tax income ; and ( ii ) that inflation could only be sharply reduced if the federal deficit were reduced . |
| 15 | On Jan. 20 the government had announced a delay in the formulation of its public- and private-sector reforms , after meeting labour leaders opposed to its economic programme . |
| 16 | At the end of August , with inflation , exacerbated by the Gulf crisis , running at an annual rate of 22.7 per cent , the government had announced a wage increase of only 7.1 per cent for the final quarter of the year under the automatic wage indexation system , due to be abolished in 1991 . |
| 17 | Voice of Ethiopia radio , broadcasting from Addis Abada on Sept. 25 , stated that on that day the government had granted an amnesty to 120 political prisoners in Asmara ; it had recently ordered the release of 500 prisoners in Eritrea . |
| 18 | Earlier yesterday the government had defeated an opposition censure motion in the lower house of parliament . |
| 19 | Cristiani had earlier given the impression that the government had accepted a proposal by UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali on Oct. 23 to extend the deadline ( currently Oct. 31 ) for the completion of the UN peace process , to give both sides more time to comply with the details of the accord . |
| 20 | Earlier , the government had ignored a UN deadline ordering the release of the IAEA inspectors along with all documents " they deem appropriate " by Sept. 24 . |
| 21 | The calf was born after the government had imposed a ban on the feed suspected of causing BSE , leaving maternal transmission as the most likely cause . |
| 22 | The government had imposed a limit of four hundred and ninety-three pounds , but Lambeth , predicting that fifteen percent of people would n't pay , revised that level to five hundred and twenty-one pounds . |
| 23 | John MacGregor , Secretary of State for Education , said yesterday that it was misleading for the union to say the Government had made a mistake . |
| 24 | Reports that the government had re-imposed a food embargo were denied by Trade Minister Saleh on Nov. 17 . |
| 25 | The government had launched an offensive on April 17 , and estimated that at least 330 people had died between then and May 19 , after which there was a noticeable intensification in the fighting . |
| 26 | According to the Middle East Economic Digest of Jan. 24 the government had revived a commission on economic Islamicization to seek a compromise between the banks and the sharia ( Islamic law ) courts . |
| 27 | On Jan. 22 it was reported that the government had ordered a tightening of security at the prison holding Pablo Escobar amid reports that he had been able to continue running his drug cartel through visitors . |
| 28 | However , press reports on Jan. 2 stated that the government had ordered a halt to all offensives against the Tamil Tigers . |
| 29 | Aquino made it clear in an interview that a new one-year notice would not be issued until the government had held a referendum . |
| 30 | The government had issued a decree on the same day suspending public activities " so that internal order should be preserved " . |