Example sentences of "british government [vb -s] [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE BRITISH government has extracted a price for generosity in providing funds for the British Antarctic Survey ( BAS ) . |
| 2 | The British government has ignored the advice of its own experts on the disposal of radioactive waste generated by hospitals and research institutes . |
| 3 | Since William Pitt 's day , in the late eighteenth century , the British government has recognised the absurdity of keeping multiple accounts — the crown 's revenue is the same whatever the source . |
| 4 | One problem relates to the grammatical word " have " when it is used to express past tense ( the " perfect " use of " have " ) : Women have been particularly targeted in magazines , especially during the Second World War , when the British government has realised the importance of women 's magazines as a channel of communication . |
| 5 | The British government has rejected the terms of a new European-wide agreement sponsored by the United Nations [ see ED 71 ] which would require cuts of sulphur-dioxide emissions by 80 per cent from 1980 levels . |
| 6 | This deplorable situation has come about because no British government has given the people of the Highlands and Islands the economic support that is given , for example , to Norwegians who live in difficult , out-of-the-way places . |
| 7 | IN ITS dying days , the British government has given the go-ahead for a controversial plan to build another oil refinery on Canvey Island in the Thames estuary . |
| 8 | The British Government has expressed a commitment to reducing the fuel consumption of organisations and institutions occupying non-domestic premises . |
| 9 | The British government has launched an advertising campaign to persuade householders to use less electricity and heating fuel as their contribution to reducing global warming . |
| 10 | For the first time a British government has established a mechanism enabling it to determine the content and purposes of education along broadly similar lines to other Western European democracies . |