Example sentences of "government [vb -s] [verb] a [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Bromberg tells us at the beginning of her excellent mixture of history of science and politics , ‘ The US government has supported a research programme in fusion energy since 1951 , and in the 30 years through 1980 it has expended more than $2 billion . |
| 2 | The Commission claims that the government has breached an EC directive on dangerous substances in groundwater and surface water . |
| 3 | In the modern period even the apparatus of Cabinet government has become a masking façade for monocratic rule by the British Prime Minister ( Benn , 1981 ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The Government has announced a health improvement programme aimed at cutting smoking and drinking . |
| 6 | The Government has had a Cabinet committee looking at ways of reducing unemployment but its recommended package is not due to be announced for a couple of weeks . |
| 7 | The government has started an advertising campaign that will draw attention to health hazards . |
| 8 | The UK government has issued a consultation paper on the further protection of wildlife and habitats designed to conform with an European Community ( EC ) directive on habitats which is due to come into force in June 1993 . |
| 9 | Faced with the financial consequences of its commitment to a hard law and order policy the Government has attempted a conjuring trick . |
| 10 | The UK government has launched a grant scheme to encourage the restoration of damaged hedgerows and their maintenance as wildlife havens . |
| 11 | The French government has launched a research programme to map the spread of the algae and to find ways of destroying them [ see ED 56 ] . |
| 12 | The British government has launched an advertising campaign to persuade householders to use less electricity and heating fuel as their contribution to reducing global warming . |
| 13 | The Government has set a target date of 1991 for the development of occupational standards relating to the majority of occupations in the UK . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Er , as I said the government has already accepted when we introduced the legislation last year in the criminal justice act on money laundering , that there are far wider er interests and fidrer fi far wider implications than there have been ever before and I think the government needs to do a little bit more to show that it is aware of international implications and the sheer scale of what we 're dealing with and er I touched earlier on the question of indemnity , er perhaps the minister could specifically address that point . |
| 16 | The government refuses to release a Scotland Yard report on the death , and is instead running its own commission of inquiry . |
| 17 | Environment Minister Lord Strathclyde announced Government plans to introduce a licensing scheme regulating the release of captive-born barn owls into the wild . |
| 18 | Over 70,000 members of the Public Service Alliance of Canada ( PSAC ) held a nine-day strike ending on Sept. 18 to oppose government plans to impose a pay freeze in the current year and to place a ceiling of 3 per cent on pay increases in each of the following two years . |
| 19 | French government plans to build a road tunnel through the Pyrenees have been blocked by a court ruling . |
| 20 | Last year a court blocked government plans to build a road tunnel through the Aspe valley , which would have threatened the bears ' habitat [ see ED 65/66 ] . |