Example sentences of "[art] government have [vb pp] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | John MacGregor , Secretary of State for Education , said yesterday that it was misleading for the union to say the Government had made a mistake . |
| 8 | Reports that the government had re-imposed a food embargo were denied by Trade Minister Saleh on Nov. 17 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | However , press reports on Jan. 2 stated that the government had ordered a halt to all offensives against the Tamil Tigers . |
| 12 | Aquino made it clear in an interview that a new one-year notice would not be issued until the government had held a referendum . |
| 13 | The government had issued a decree on the same day suspending public activities " so that internal order should be preserved " . |
| 14 | The decision was taken after the government had considered a report on the deteriorating state of law and order , a result of the activities of the separatist United Liberation Front of Assam ( ULFA ) . |
| 15 | The complaint , filed on 19 December , stated that the government had had a duty to inform Pan Am of information in its possession that a terrorist organization was planning to place a bomb on a Pan Am flight from either Frankfurt or London , specifically on Flight 103 on 21 December 1988 , and had ‘ negligently failed to inform Pan Am ’ . |
| 16 | It was reported on April 11 that the government had signed a ceasefire agreement with the Pa-o National Organization , a small group which had operated in the hill country of southern Shan state . |
| 17 | As I said in reply to the hon. Member for Liverpool , Mossley Hill ( Mr. Alton ) , the Government have obtained a report from the Director General of Fair Trading , which was only published on 24 September . |
| 18 | The Government have received a number of representations calling for the reintroduction of executive detention . |
| 19 | These are the 16 to 18-year-olds to whom the Government have given a guarantee . |
| 20 | The Government have painted a picture of willing participants lining up to take part in this scheme . |
| 21 | During the past 12 years the Government have shown a lack of interest in regional economic policies . |
| 22 | In the past few years , the Government have introduced a number of beneficial educational reforms , which will definitely improve matters . |
| 23 | The Government have taken a stand on the right principles , and when my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister goes to Maastricht to uphold them , he will have the overwhelming support of the House and the country , whatever the outcome of the summit . |
| 24 | of that fund was paid in by the Government , but now the Government have taken a holiday . |
| 25 | The Government have taken a number of steps to promote the provision of affordable homes for exactly the people whom the hon. Gentleman mentions . |
| 26 | One in eight mortgage payers are in arrears because the Government have launched a drive towards home ownership so powerful that mobility of labour has suffered . |
| 27 | To ease the burden of changing immediately from general rates to Community Charge the Government has implemented a scheme of transitional relief . |
| 28 | The government has declared a state of emergency and asked for assistance from the US . |
| 29 | The Prime Minister , for example , writing in Action for Cities in 1988 argued that ‘ the Government has created a climate which supports enterprise and has set about removing obstacles in the way of inner city recovery ( HMSO , 1988a , p. 2 ) . |
| 30 | The government has adopted a decree laying down the legal framework for licensing companies to carry out recovery and treatment of packaging waste . |