Example sentences of "government have [vb pp] 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 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The Government has announced a health improvement programme aimed at cutting smoking and drinking . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Faced with the financial consequences of its commitment to a hard law and order policy the Government has attempted a conjuring trick . |
| 8 | The UK government has launched a grant scheme to encourage the restoration of damaged hedgerows and their maintenance as wildlife havens . |
| 9 | 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 ] . |
| 10 | The Government has set a target date of 1991 for the development of occupational standards relating to the majority of occupations in the UK . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | At the end of August , with inflation , exacerbated by the Gulf crisis , running at an annual rate of 22.7 per cent , the government had announced a wage increase of only 7.1 per cent for the final quarter of the year under the automatic wage indexation system , due to be abolished in 1991 . |
| 13 | In September 1991 the Greek government had rejected a US request for his extradition , and his trial had opened in October 1991 . |
| 14 | Earlier , the government had ignored a UN deadline ordering the release of the IAEA inspectors along with all documents " they deem appropriate " by Sept. 24 . |
| 15 | It was reported on April 11 that the government had signed a ceasefire agreement with the Pa-o National Organization , a small group which had operated in the hill country of southern Shan state . |
| 16 | Reports that the government had re-imposed a food embargo were denied by Trade Minister Saleh on Nov. 17 . |
| 17 | The tariff reform camp had a bonus in 1911 from events in Canada : Laurier 's Liberal government had negotiated a Reciprocity Agreement with the United States that cut across all of the arguments for imperial preference . |
| 18 | The US government had established a Fish Commission under Spencer F. Baird ( 1823–87 ) as early as 1871 to enquire into the depletion of fish stocks . |