Example sentences of "government have [been] trying " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Hong Kong Government has been trying to persuade Britain to make the package as wide as possible . |
| 2 | E. The Government has been trying to help people in these country areas , particularly in the north . |
| 3 | Noise from vehicles is something the Government has been trying to tackle for more than 20 years . |
| 4 | In Britain , the government has been trying to encourage commercial recyclers such as waste-paper merchants to join forces with the packaging industry to give more packaging a second life . |
| 5 | Mexico 's government has been trying to promote ‘ eco-tourism ’ in the area , believing that this will save the butterflies ' trees from the attentions of woodcutters . |
| 6 | Ever since 1979 the Government has been trying to widen and deepen share ownership , but apart from privatisations , which have resulted in millions of people owning a few hundred shares in one or two companies , it can not be said to have had much success . |
| 7 | Well I think in common with most local authorities we 've been playing a sort of cat and mouse game with Central Government over the last ten years , where we have attempted to continue to deliver the services that we believe we 've been elected to deliver , and Central Government has been trying to close off what it would see as loopholes and gain control of us and stop us doing what it does n't want us to do , but of course it 's a rather unequal struggle and the cat and mouse analogy is quite a good one in that Central Government has all the power and is able to erm take control of us to the extent now that the budget that both the City and the County Council have set for the coming year has effectively been set by Central Government . |
| 8 | But it is also a lesson that Yucatan 's businessmen and its state government have been trying to impress on investors from the United States — with controversial results . |