Example sentences of "the government has [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In keeping with its stance on regional neutrality the government has undertaken no studies of the regional impact of the Tunnel outside the South East despite the fears of more remote regions that their businesses will move to locations nearer the Tunnel or lose trade to southern and French competitors .
2 In education and housing the government has limited the role of local government .
3 To ease the burden of changing immediately from general rates to Community Charge the Government has implemented a scheme of transitional relief .
4 At Twyford Down , protesters want a tunnel but the Government has rejected the scheme as too expensive and time-consuming .
5 But the Government has rejected the call saying that it 's already taken steps to reduce the risk of such an incident happening again .
6 The Government has rejected the demands of Smyth 's lawyer Karen Snell that confidential reports on the RUC compiled by British police officers should be examined in the San Francisco court .
7 The government has declared a state of emergency and asked for assistance from the US .
8 Since the collapse of communist rule in 1989 some improvements to the cityscape have been made , but the damage to buildings is so serious that the government has declared the city a disaster zone .
9 The Government has indicated an intention to set up some 20 such colleges in Inner City areas .
10 Concerned about possible unrest , the government has extended the mid-year university recess and cancelled public sporting events .
11 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 ) .
12 Since these calculations were made the government has raised the capital level for those qualifying for housing benefit .
13 In reality the argument is all about whether the government has increased the budget enough .
14 Responding to criticism from environmentalists , the government has increased the Inspectorate 's staff and budget , and given it the status of an independent agency .
15 But in the same period the Government has increased the rate of national insurance contributions from 6.5 to 9 per cent , and , because these rates start at a lower threshold than taxation , the net effect has been to mitigate the changes in income tax .
16 However a DSS Press Release states that the Government has accepted the recommendation of the Social Security Advisory Committee to adopt an alternative approach whereby the circumstances under which unlimited arrears can apply is more explicitly defined .
17 The government has adopted a decree laying down the legal framework for licensing companies to carry out recovery and treatment of packaging waste .
18 By imposing new policies and challenging traditional methods of decision-making , however , the government has disturbed a number of interests .
19 On maternity rights the government has weakened the rights available to British workers and on they are resisting reorganization of cases .
20 The Commission claims that the government has breached an EC directive on dangerous substances in groundwater and surface water .
21 The Commission claims that the government has breached the directive which requires an assessment of the environmental impact of major projects .
22 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 ) .
23 The government has made a mess of its showpiece , the privatisation of the profitable Muslim Commercial Bank .
24 In view of the relationship between occupational pension schemes , particularly contracted-out final salary schemes , and the State scheme , we feel that this uncertainty is likely to continue since the Government has made no indication that State pension ages will be equalised .
25 While the Government has made no promises , it is looking into the assessors ' findings .
26 To assist them the Government has made the west of the region a Development Area in which special grants are given to industries .
27 So the Government has made the valleys a Special Development Area where grants are made to help to start new industries .
28 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 .
29 So it looks as though the Government has given the council a cautious go-ahead to draw up a scheme if not to beat the Tay , then to lessen the disastrous effects another flood would have on the long suffering Perthshire population .
30 And she insisted the government has done the reverse by ‘ treating it as a cheap option ’ .
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