Example sentences of "government [vb past] [verb] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The previous day the government had stated that 1,001 LTTE guerrillas had been accounted as dead and 682 civilians killed in crossfire . |
| 2 | The government had hoped that left wing councils , especially those in the inner cities , would lose their schools , but the evidence so far does not bear this out . |
| 3 | The US government had hoped that some form of non-Communist coalition government could be set up in post-war China , and General Marshall had led a mission to achieve this end in 1946 . |
| 4 | The French Government had hoped that 9 hours of talks with lorry drivers ' Union Leaders would bring the dispute to a halt . |
| 5 | This was the first time that the government had confirmed that all votes would be of equal value ; de Klerk did not specify , however , whether there would be a common voters ' roll or separate rolls . |
| 6 | Restoring their land fell within the purview of the bill because in 1948 the Slovak government had agreed that many Hungarians should get their land back , but the decision had never been implemented . |
| 7 | The Government had predicted that rateable values would rise by about seven times , but the revaluation has produced an eightfold increase . |
| 8 | The Turkish government continued to maintain that any re-opening could only follow the lifting of sanctions against Iraq by the UN Security Council . |