Example sentences of "government have [verb] [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The French government has threatened to veto the vital Gatt agreement , aimed at averting a damaging international trade war , if its demands for a better agriculture deal are not met . |
| 2 | The French government has threatened to veto the vital agreement if its agriculture demands are not met . |
| 3 | In Germany the Federal Infrastructure Plan of 1985 makes provision for 4,500km of high speed line including 800km of new line ; in Italy and the Alta Velocita network will consist of 2,200km of new and upgraded line in a T shape linking Milan , Rome , Naples , Turin , and Venice ; in France the TGV ( Train a Grande Vitesse ) network will eventually total 7,000km including 2,300km of new lines such as the recently announced TGV Nord which will link with the Channel Tunnel : and in Spain the government has decided to adopt the standard European gauge for all new high speed lines with priority being given to the Madrid-Cordoba-Seville and the Madrid-Saragossa-Barcelona-French border lines . |
| 4 | Now the Government has moved to tackle the growing problem with four hard-hitting TV advertisements , as part of a £1.4m crackdown on sniffers . |
| 5 | There is a trick in making privatisations a success , something that the UK government has had to learn the hard way , and it seems that the Turks have yet to learn it : Reuter reports from Istanbul that the public offer of 20% of the shares in Netas Northern Electric Telekomunikasyon AS was undersubscribed , suggesting that the reason was that the maximum for which any one buyer could subscribe was 5,000 shares , costing the equivalent of $4,450 , which is thought to have put off institutional and foreign buyers . |
| 6 | But an aid worker who has daily contact with camp inmates does not believe this means that the Hong Kong government has managed to persuade the Vietnamese to quietly accept their fate . |
| 7 | This Government has managed to combine the worst qualities of scrooge , Shylock and Genghis khan . |
| 8 | The aim of the research is to study the way the government has attempted to combine the various objectives , which , despite much talk in the past , have never been seriously linked , as planning had more or less disappeared over the period 1970-81 . |
| 9 | Byrne ( 1986 , p. 299 ) sees it as a constitutional change such that ‘ central government , in relation to local government has come to resemble the Big Brother of George Orwell 's Nineteen Eighty Four ’ , while Newton and Karran ( 1985 , ch. 8 ) compare it to ‘ Knee-Capping Local Government ’ . |
| 10 | The government had wanted to retain the higher rate , whereas the parliamentary tax committee had advocated more drastic reductions , to 14 per cent and 7 per cent . |
| 11 | The government had hoped to make the private sector take over nuclear power stations , but John Wakeham eventually had to admit that no one wanted them . |
| 12 | In early 1988 the government had decided to liberalize the antiquated English licensing laws , to enable pubs to stay open longer on weekdays . |
| 13 | The Iraqi News Agency ( INA ) reported on May 20 that the government had decided to abolish the Revolutionary Court established in 1969 [ see p. 23231 ] . |
| 14 | The Convention of Scottish Local Authorities claimed that the Government had failed to acknowledge the overwhelming case for more investment . |
| 15 | The Archbishop of Canterbury , the Most Rev. Robert Runcie , announced on Jan. 18 after a meeting with Foreign Minister Tesfaye Dinka that the Ethiopian government had agreed to allow the church-based Joint Relief Programme to begin transporting food aid by road into rebel-held areas , in accordance with a December plan [ see p. 37113 ] . |
| 16 | It was also announced , however , on July 24 that the French government had agreed to scrap the S-45 mobile nuclear missile project , in favour of a new ground-to-ground missile , named Hades , which was to be used by both army and navy . |