Example sentences of "government was [v-ing] [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the US was anxious ( or at least willing ) to approve the Bay of Along agreement which would have reincorporated Cochinchina with the other two parts of Vietnam and paved the way for the return of Bao Dai as the Emperor of a legally united Vietnam , the French government was hesitating to submit the agreement to the Assembly because Indo-China , as the US Ambassador in France described it , was a stick of dynamite or , to change the metaphor , the French government was like an overloaded ship incapable of accommodating one more passenger without capsizing : ‘ Indo-China is that passenger ’ . |
| 2 | The idea was immediately rejected by the main health service union , Nupe , which said last night the Government was trying to split the ambulance staff . |
| 3 | The idea was immediately rejected by the main health service union , Nupe , which said last night the Government was trying to split the ambulance staff . |
| 4 | The idea was immediately rejected by the main health service union , Nupe , which said last night that the Government was trying to split the ambulance staff . |
| 5 | The idea was rejected by the main health service union , Nupe , which said last night that the Government was trying to split the ambulance staff . |
| 6 | The order was supported , a trifle ingenuously , by a claim that the government was trying to broaden the scope of the RCM to take in more of the not so urgent cases . |
| 7 | The Yugoslav Federal Defence Secretariat admitted responsibility for the " undesired and tragic accident " , and the immediate suspension of Yugoslav air force commander Col. Zvonko Jurjevic suggested that the Yugoslav government was hoping to prevent the incident from impeding the deployment of UN troops . |
| 8 | ‘ The Government was going to make the announcement on Wednesday . |
| 9 | Birch argued that the government was avoiding informing the public that it allowed companies to discharge dangerous chemicals and heavy metals directly into rivers . |