Example sentences of "government have [vb pp] a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Bulgarian government has restarted a reactor at the Kozloduy nuclear plant , which was found to be in a " very poor condition " during an inspection by the International Atomic Energy Authority last year [ see ED nos 48 , 49/50 ] . |
| 2 | Since 1972 the UK government has adopted a policy of progressive reductions in the quantity of lead permitted in petrol . |
| 3 | By imposing new policies and challenging traditional methods of decision-making , however , the government has disturbed a number of interests . |
| 4 | The government has made a mess of its showpiece , the privatisation of the profitable Muslim Commercial Bank . |
| 5 | The Danish government has lodged a protest with its Norwegian counterpart over the poaching of thousands of seals in Greenland 's territorial waters by two Norwegian-owned ships . |
| 6 | THE BRITISH government has extracted a price for generosity in providing funds for the British Antarctic Survey ( BAS ) . |
| 7 | The Laotian government has announced a ban on all logging and timber exploitation in an effort to protect its fast-diminishing forests . |
| 8 | The Argentine government has announced a ban on all imports of toxic waste from abroad . |
| 9 | The UK government has announced a ban on the non-agricultural use of the pesticides atrazine and simizine , commonly used to clear weeds from roadside verges , railway lines and footpaths . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The state government has announced a review of parks management . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The UK government has announced a number of measures to boost energy efficiency and the use of renewable energy sources . |
| 14 | The French government has announced a moratorium on its nuclear weapons testing programme for the remainder of the year . |
| 15 | The British Government has expressed a commitment to reducing the fuel consumption of organisations and institutions occupying non-domestic premises . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The French Government has imposed a tax on the use of waste disposal sites . |
| 18 | The government has declared a state of emergency and asked for assistance from the US . |
| 19 | To ease the burden of changing immediately from general rates to Community Charge the Government has implemented a scheme of transitional relief . |
| 20 | 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 ) . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 ’ . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | But after a 7-month-long public inquiry which saw vigourous opposition from green groups to the plan , the Government has backed a recommendation by its Inspector that the bypass should not be built to the east of the city . |
| 26 | The Swedish government has reaffirmed a pledge to phase out nuclear power by the year 2010 , but has reversed earlier undertakings to begin shutting down its 12 nuclear reactors in 1995 . |
| 27 | In these circumstances the same output of OX 1 is provided after the central government has provided a cut in taxes which affects the median voter . |
| 28 | This Conservative Government has taken a lead in working to protect the ozone layer . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The Hungarian government has issued a protest to Czechoslovakia over the continued construction work on the Gabcikovo Dam on the Danube — a focus of growing tension between the two countries [ see ED 57 ; passim ] . |