Example sentences of "[adj] government [verb] [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In August 1990 the French government attempted to appease this growing discontent by promising to hold discussions in 1991 on the territory 's future . |
| 2 | Only on Feb. 27 , i.e. not until Iraq 's comprehensive defeat in the land war , did the Iraqi government agree to meet these conditions . |
| 3 | What are the British Government doing to resolve that question ? |
| 4 | If central government wishes to increase those expenditure levels when they go over , that is down to them . |
| 5 | Whether central government chooses to remove this is , however , dependent on value judgements and a decision to attain horizontal equity ( Grewal , Buchanan and Matthews 1980 ) . |
| 6 | The theory of limited government appears to demand more than simple majority rule . |
| 7 | The current government wants to change this approach , which helped Mr Mazowiecki lose last month 's presidential election . |
| 8 | Quite predictably , the revolutionary government refused to pay any outstanding bills for their former masters ' frivolous luxuries , a state of affairs which had disastrous consequences for champagne houses , like Roederer , whose main market was Russian . |
| 9 | At various times , the Unionist government attempted to curb such displays either by banning marches or by re-routeing them through areas with the same politics as the marchers . |
| 10 | Again , the Conservative government tried to encourage such activity by enabling them to make one-off tax deductible donations of up to 3 per cent of annual dividends . |
| 11 | In January 1989 the Brazilian government seemed to acknowledge this . |
| 12 | The Brazilian government plans to build more roads into the heart of the rainforest for developers to prospect for oil and metals . |