Example sentences of "the government [vb -s] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government hopes to pick a winner in May but the selection could be delayed . |
| 2 | The government refuses to release a Scotland Yard report on the death , and is instead running its own commission of inquiry . |
| 3 | The government does have a choice if it did n't want us to live like this then we would n't have to . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | No mention of massive unemployment , deprivation or any of the other factors which have to be taken into account when the Government considers making a town into a development area . |
| 6 | According to McKee , the government expects to award a contract by October , with takeover planned for next April . |
| 7 | To ease the burden of changing immediately from general rates to Community Charge the Government has implemented a scheme of transitional relief . |
| 8 | The government has declared a state of emergency and asked for assistance from the US . |
| 9 | The Government has indicated an intention to set up some 20 such colleges in Inner City areas . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | The government has adopted a decree laying down the legal framework for licensing companies to carry out recovery and treatment of packaging waste . |
| 12 | By imposing new policies and challenging traditional methods of decision-making , however , the government has disturbed a number of interests . |
| 13 | The Commission claims that the government has breached an EC directive on dangerous substances in groundwater and surface water . |
| 14 | Since 1983 , the government has funded a series of one-term full-time courses in polytechnics and universities to provide intensive training for designated teachers with specific responsibility for pupils with special needs in ordinary schools ( see Meeting Special Needs in Ordinary Schools by Seamus Hegarty in this series for information on research on evaluation of their effectiveness ) . |
| 15 | The government has made a mess of its showpiece , the privatisation of the profitable Muslim Commercial Bank . |
| 16 | Zambia is one of the countries in which the government has made an effort to sustain expenditure on education and its share in GDP has not actually fallen . |
| 17 | The Government has denied a decision has already been taken to close Rosyth , Scotland 's biggest employer with 4,000 workers , and an announcement is expected next month . |
| 18 | This means that German coal producers can expect DM 550 million as coking coal aid and DM 184 million as investment help in 1984 but the government has expressed a disinclination to subsidise exports , which it plans to phase out . |
| 19 | The Government has announced a record fall in the number of people on National Health Service waiting lists for more than two years although Labour does not agree with the figures . |
| 20 | Since the 1985 unrest , and particularly after the 1987 General Election , the Government has announced a number of initiatives on the inner city , and it has presented these as part of an effort to rejuvenate depressed areas on a sound basis . |
| 21 | The Government has announced a health improvement programme aimed at cutting smoking and drinking . |
| 22 | The Government has set a curfew on a mile-wide strip the length of the frontiers with Mozambique and Zambia , with orders to shoot on sight . |
| 23 | The Government has set a target date of 1991 for the development of occupational standards relating to the majority of occupations in the UK . |
| 24 | But the government has set a target of recycling twenty-five percent of household waste by the end of the century . |
| 25 | The Government has set an objective of having a structure of NVQs which , by the end of 1992 , covers 80 per cent of the working population of the UK . |
| 26 | The government has published a discussion document on climate change which sets out a series of options on how emissions of greenhouse gases can be reduced . |
| 27 | In order to attract new investment , the government has initiated a programme to update and extend its treaty network . |
| 28 | The government has ordered an investigation into the circumstances of the accident as well as a public inquiry into tanker movements around the coasts of Britain . |
| 29 | The government has ordered an investigation into procedures used by Social Services over the handling of allegations of the Satanic abuse of children in Rochdale . |
| 30 | The government has issued a warning that fish caught in inshore waters around Britain may not be fit to eat , but ministers will not say which fishing grounds are affected . |