Example sentences of "government [vb mod] have [vb pp] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Government should have made a statement on the way in which the police national computer operates ; it should not have been necessary for me or the National Council for Civil Liberties to prise information from them . |
| 2 | But with all the equipment at GCHQ the Government must have known a lot more than I did about the horrors . |
| 3 | People indeed talked privately about the waste of government money , the lack of respect for public property , and it is possible that government might have regarded a discussion of that issue alone as constructive criticism : Kufrans were not sure . |
| 4 | But that can be granted only to a refugee who is seeking asylum on the ground that the Government might have administered a case improperly and not followed its own rules for processing refugees under a United Nations Convention . |
| 5 | Had Mr Major lost , the Government would have tabled a motion of confidence and invited the Commons to approve it . |