Example sentences of "government [verb] [adv] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The UK and French governments had initially expressed a preference for " four-plus-zero " ( that is negotiations among the four allies without German involvement ) , but had subsequently agreed to the US proposal . |
| 2 | The government has also drafted a set of measures to restrain the growth of individual cash incomes so as to reduce demand for goods . |
| 3 | The Australian government has just ordered a tranche of buses , and a further 900 could follow . |
| 4 | In reality therefore , strong government has simply enabled a series of " minority " governments to push their policies through the Commons . |
| 5 | When Simon pressed and won his claim for an assistant inspector to supervise the national vaccination scheme in 1871 , the current permanent secretary , Ralph Lingen , issued a general warning in the accompanying minute : ‘ I do not know who is to check the assertion of experts when the government has once undertaken a class of duties which none but such persons understand . ’ |
| 6 | The government has long favoured a system of loans , but recognising that the complete replacement of grants by loans would arouse considerable opposition , they are introducing a mixed system . |
| 7 | The Government has recently accepted a recommendation by the British Association of Accident and Emergency Medicine for a doubling in the number of trained consultants , currently 216 , but it will take 10 years before they are all in place . |
| 8 | The German government has never spent a lot of money on culture , and after reunification it cut the social , not the cultural , budget which is absurdly low anyhow . |
| 9 | It was a sensible policy , but it looked as if the Thatcher Government had simply executed a U-turn and baled out a loss-making nationalized industry . |
| 10 | The government had reportedly reached an agreement on Oct. 4 with 200 armed former contras who had seized land belonging to Sandinista co-operatives , and whose occupation of the northern town of Waslala had resulted in five deaths and seven people reported wounded . |
| 11 | Real incomes fell by 36 per cent in January , since the government had effectively imposed a wage freeze for the month , with wage increases restricted to one-fifth of the rate of inflation in succeeding months . |
| 12 | But the Government had already done a deal giving the Welsh nationalists , Plaid Cymru , a guaranteed place and were determined to keep two others reserved for the main parties , Labour and the Tories . |
| 13 | The Kaifu government had recently suffered a series of political humiliations , culminating in a major financial scandal and the forced retraction of numerous political reform proposals [ see pp. 38528-29 ] . |
| 14 | In September 1988 Mendes had saved from development some land owned by the Alves family which the government had then declared a reserve . |
| 15 | He said the Conservative government had always opposed a ban on tobacco advertising and he promised to ‘ continue to defend the interests of Rothman 's workers in my constituency . ’ |
| 16 | In fact , studies of colonial government have often involved a perspective which is derived from the colonialists ' own assessments of their impact on dependent territories . |