Example sentences of "[art] government [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nurses ended a six-week dispute on Nov. 8 when the government offered a deal on pay and shorter hours . |
| 2 | The government called a session of the National Security Council ( NSC , comprising the four heads of the armed forces and police , the President , the President of the Senate , the President of the Supreme Court , and the Comptroller-General ) , which met on March 27 and agreed that each branch of the armed forces would make its own report public . |
| 3 | Proposals for fundholding were greeted with scepticism by many general practitioners , and in Scotland the BMA persuaded the government to allow a scheme to test the arrangements as a demonstration project operating ‘ shadow ’ practice funds . |
| 4 | In his resignation letter Mann said he had resigned to protest against the recent extension of President 's rule in Punjab and the refusal of the government to allow a state legislature to be elected . |
| 5 | He persuaded the government to allow a group of students to be sent to the USA in 1872 , but they were recalled for fear they might become ‘ too gay ( morally loose ) or western ’ ( Wang 1928 : 44 ) , a comment which would not be out of place in more recent times . |
| 6 | A quiet , soft-spoken man , he arrived at the yards in the dark days of 1983 fresh from a difficult stint at British Shipbuilders and it was he who persuaded the Government to allow a management/employee buyout in 1988 . |
| 7 | It could take up to four years before a full hearing in the European Court , but Liberty 's legal officer , John Wadham , suggested yesterday that the action might prompt the Government to include a mechanism for complaints over GCHQ in its forthcoming bill to put the Secret Intelligence Service , MI6 , on a statutory footing . |
| 8 | On Aug. 24 the government imposed a state of emergency in 27 townships of the Vaal Reef and banned the carrying of all potential weapons . |
| 9 | Amid continuing disturbances the government imposed a state of emergency in the region on July 20 . |
| 10 | The Government imposed a ceiling of 1.5 per cent in the public sector is showing little sign of filtering through to private companies , said the report . |
| 11 | The DFG originally wanted to allow the fellowships to run indefinitely until the researcher obtained a permanent post , but the government imposed a time limit of five years . |
| 12 | On March 27 , as the national conference got under way , the government imposed a curfew and banned strikes and demonstrations . |
| 13 | On May 8 the government imposed a curfew on the city . |
| 14 | At the same time , however , the government condemned a wave of guerrilla attacks in the departments of Cundinamarca and Antioquia and the intendency of Putumayo in which eight members of the judiciary , a businessman and 10 policemen died . |
| 15 | Mr Wallace said : ‘ While the Government continues a policy of indifference and inaction , over 120,000 more individuals , families and households are now suffering the misery of unemployment . ’ |
| 16 | The council asked the Government to erect a memorial next year to mark the 20th anniversary of the atrocity . |
| 17 | They have written to Director General of Fair Trading Sir Bryan Carsberg asking him to advise the Government to lift a ban on the two companies discussing the integration of their Dover-Calais services . |
| 18 | A three-week strike by 11 teacher unions had ended on Sept. 20 when the government reached a settlement with nine of the unions whereby it would pay immediately the equivalent of US$1,600,000 in back salaries from 1987 and the remaining US$4,400,000 in the next fiscal year . |
| 19 | The government reached a draft agreement with representatives of the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) on Jan. 17 . |
| 20 | A fresh attempt has been made to persuade the Government to let a county council spend ten million pounds more than Whitehall wants . |
| 21 | In 1984 the Government announced a union ban at the base , and in 1989 Robin Smith was sacked . |
| 22 | On Dec. 10 the government announced a ban on the Bajrang Dal , the RSS and the VHP . |
| 23 | In September the government announced a ceiling of 5.5 per cent for wage increases in 1991 ; according to the employers ' organization , the Confederación Española de Organizaciones Empresariales ( Spanish Confederation of Employers ' Organizations — CEOE ) , wages rose by 9 per cent in 1990 — well above the level of inflation . |
| 24 | In an effort to improve the competitiveness of the fishing industry , the government announced a devaluation of the króna by 1.5 per cent on May 10 , 1989 , the third in 1989 [ see also p. 36430 ] . |
| 25 | The government announced a pilot scheme to issue 45,000 training vouchers in 11 areas . |
| 26 | Last May , however , in response to the House of Commons Agriculture Select Committee report on ‘ Land Use and Forestry ’ and to public pressure , the government announced a review of red deer legislation to bring damage to the natural heritage within its remit . |
| 27 | In October 1989 the government announced a number of measures to encourage farmers to sell more produce to the state . |
| 28 | In the winter of 1984–5 the Government announced a cut in the annual grant for land drainage from £60 million to a projected average of £30 million , and stipulated that the emphasis should now be on urban flood protection , rather than improvement for agriculture . |
| 29 | On Feb. 1 , 1990 , therefore , the government announced a package of anti-inflationary measures . |
| 30 | At the same time the government announced a package of new measures under which ( i ) the minimum wage was increased by 18 per cent from Nov. 18 ; ( ii ) a 40 per cent cut in income tax for those earning up to four times the minimum wage was to take effect in 1991 ; ( iii ) petrol prices were increased by 20 per cent and diesel oil , liquid gas and electricity prices by 30 per cent ; ( iv ) the peso 's rate of progressive devaluation against the US dollar was halved from 80 centavos to an " average " of 40 centavos a day , a depreciation rate of 5 per cent per year , as part of a anti-inflationary move aimed at fixing a future parity for the two currencies and stemming the flight of capital abroad . |