Example sentences of "[adv prt] [verb] the government " in BNC.
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| 1 | The UP accused the government of responsibility for the murder ; until December Gutiérrez had been held in a top-security prison in Bogotá , but he was then transferred to Medellín and released for Christmas to join his family . |
| 2 | The providers of training ended up playing the government 's games and giving it credibility when it was in reality doing nothing in a serious situation . |
| 3 | IN 1965 a Sports Council was set up to advise the government on future policy on sport and physical education . |
| 4 | The Renewable Energy Advisory Group , set up to advise the government , has recommended that Britain aim to produce 1,500 megawatts of energy from renewable sources by the year 2000 . |
| 5 | The Animal Procedures Committee , set up to advise the government on animal experiments , recommended that there was sufficient evidence of sentience to give one species of invertebrate , the common octopus , protection . |
| 6 | Already Scottish Tory Mps are lining up to threaten the Government that they will withhold support or even vote against if Rosyth is forsaken . |
| 7 | The magazine folded and we all got drunk on Bulgarian wine and I made a speech about going out to penetrate the government and cut the arteries of the police state right at its heart — you need Bulgarian wine to say things like that it makes me faint to think of it now . |
| 8 | In America and Britain , even to some extent in Germany , think-tanks set out to influence the government . |
| 9 | Thornburgh , who was about to leave the government in order to contest a Senate vacancy , insisted that he was concerned only with the jurisdiction of federal judges , and not with the rights or wrongs of the abortion issue . |