Example sentences of "government [vb -s] [verb] a [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since 1972 the UK government has adopted a policy of progressive reductions in the quantity of lead permitted in petrol . |
| 2 | By imposing new policies and challenging traditional methods of decision-making , however , the government has disturbed a number of interests . |
| 3 | The government has made a mess of its showpiece , the privatisation of the profitable Muslim Commercial Bank . |
| 4 | The UK government has announced a series of new initiatives for the countryside , in a package involving £22.5 million of new expenditure spread over three years . |
| 5 | The state government has announced a review of parks management . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The UK government has announced a number of measures to boost energy efficiency and the use of renewable energy sources . |
| 8 | Its government has imposed a ceiling of 200 billion roubles on central-bank lending to the other republics during the second quarter of this year . |
| 9 | The government has declared a state of emergency and asked for assistance from the US . |
| 10 | To ease the burden of changing immediately from general rates to Community Charge the Government has implemented a scheme of transitional relief . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | Instead of introducing procedures which can be relied upon to identify and protect all those at risk of human rights violations in their own country , Government has introduced a range of measures which create obstacles in the path of those seeking asylum in the UK . |
| 13 | In the UK , the Conservative government has introduced a reform of local taxation which replaced domestic rates with the so-called ‘ community charge ’ or ‘ poll tax ’ . |
| 14 | Once an arm of the Post Office as a government department , telecommunications was first re-located ( 1969 ) in a public corporation and is now experiencing a ‘ liberalisation ’ phase as the present government has introduced an element of competition into the provision of telecommunication services through re-definition of the British Telecom monopoly . |
| 15 | In this the government has had a measure of success in that twenty-three separate sales have gone ahead , and most of them have been greatly over-subscribed . |
| 16 | The creation of the welfare state and the expansion of local and national government has produced a range of ‘ welfare professions ’ , and has resulted in the growth of the medical and teaching professions and the greater employment of professionals in government bureaucracies . |
| 17 | While making it easier for people to build up considerable capital assets , and to pass these on intact , the Government has taken a number of measures that have allowed many people to acquire capital assets for the first time . |
| 18 | Since the early 1980s , the Chinese parliament has enacted four major laws on the protection of the environment , and eight laws on the protection of natural resources , and the government has issued a series of administrative regulations and environmental standards . |
| 19 | In Norway , for example , the government has instituted a system of approval which authorizes persons designated by the Ministry of Church and Education to ask the authors of school texts to remove sexist passages . |
| 20 | This year the Norwegian government has allowed a catch of 160 minke whales for commercial purposes . |
| 21 | Remaining with the research theme , the Government has commissioned a review of the DTI 's five research centres ( including the National Engineering Laboratory in East Kilbride ) to look at options such as privatisation or franchising . |
| 22 | The Dutch government has set a target of producing 1,000 megawatts of electricity by the year 2000 thorough wind power generation . |
| 23 | But the government has set a target of recycling twenty-five percent of household waste by the end of the century . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The Russian government has approved a programme of measures to help people in the Urals region suffering from the effects of radiation . |
| 26 | On waste , the government intends to introduce a system of credits designed to ensure that local authorities get on target to meet the goal of 25 per cent recycling of household waste by 2000 . |