Example sentences of "government was [verb] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Nov. 5 , two days before the government was scheduled to face a vote of confidence in the Lok Sabha ( lower house of parliament ) , the Janata Dal split into two factions . |
| 2 | Another scholar claims that since the government was trying to create a class of peasant smallholders , it had to safeguard the peasant 's person , his property and his entrepreneurial activity ; " Securing these conditions without an apparatus of justice was impossible " . |
| 3 | If peasants could get out of hand when the government was trying to raise a militia , it was not unreasonable to suppose that they would run amok on learning what the government meant by freedom . |
| 4 | Commenting on the new economic legislation , the Finance Minister , Vaclav Klaus , said that its main thrust was to revitalize small and medium-size state-owned companies through improved management and new investment ; furthermore , the government was aiming to establish a climate favouring private enterprise , but around one-third of the economy would remain under state control for the time being . |
| 5 | There was speculation in December that the government was contemplating re-opening a dialogue with the Basque armed movement ETA after the Interior Ministry released to the press transcripts of two ETA prisoners ' conversations in which they condemned the use of violence . |
| 6 | Reports confirmed by members of a team of UK trade experts led by the UK Secretary of State for Trade and Industry , Peter Lilley , said that the government was planning to raise a series of loans in different countries to help finance reconstruction plans . |
| 7 | Because of the complexity of the balance of forces represented in the new parliament , the formation of a government was expected to take a number of weeks . |
| 8 | In one notable Supreme Court decision , the government was allowed to bar a merger of two Los Angeles supermarket chains whose combined market share was only 7.5% . |