Example sentences of "[adj] government [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the war continued and the death toll at sea mounted , Wilson 's patriotism , his sense of outrage at the methods by the German government to break the Allied blockade and the strength of his anti-German sentiments grew until they became almost pathological . |
| 2 | Of the four partners in the EFA project , Britain , Italy and Spain are thought to favour the Ferranti consortium — which also includes West Germany 's Siemens — but the West German government prefers the Telefunken option . |
| 3 | Of the four partners in the EFA project , Britain , Italy and Spain are thought to favour the Ferranti consortium — which also includes West Germany 's Siemens — but the West German government prefers the Telefunken option . |
| 4 | The French government allows the Annamese almost no say at all in running their affairs . |
| 5 | A spokesman said that the French government regarded the whole issue as closed . |
| 6 | The French government welcomed the Iraqi " unilateral decision " of Oct. 23 ( which took the form of the Iraqi parliament 's approving Saddam Hussein 's proposal ) . |
| 7 | On Aug. 14 the Iraqi government demanded the immediate withdrawal of all Turkish forces from northern Iraq . |
| 8 | On April 18 the Iraqi government informed the International Atomic Energy Agency ( IAEA ) about holdings of non-conventional weapons stocks . |
| 9 | On June 16 the Iraqi government suspended the twice-daily flights between Baghdad and Basra , the last remaining domestic flights , on account of the lack of spare parts . |
| 10 | The ambassador , Mr Thomas Stroock , had earlier complained of ‘ the inability of the Guatemalan government to protect the human rights of its citizens ’ . |
| 11 | In so far as the population of Africa , and especially that of Somalia , is clearly at risk from internal conflict and where the aid agencies can not deliver any assistance because of that conflict , is it not time for the British Government to urge the United Nations to take a more interventionist and far stronger role in resolving those disputes ? |
| 12 | The British Government recognises the democratic right to aspire towards Irish unity but also accepts that until a majority here wishes otherwise , Northern Ireland 's status will be unchanged . |
| 13 | ‘ The prospects have been greatly improved , ’ he reported breathlessly , ‘ by the promise of the British government to provide the main roads if the stage of mass settlement is reached . ’ |
| 14 | The British government introduced the Criminal Jurisdiction Bill in the Lords during January 1975 and , following the announcement of the date of the election for the Convention , the government of the Republic introduced their counterpart Criminal Law ( Jurisdiction ) Bill at the beginning of April . |
| 15 | In October 1989 the British government introduced the new actively seeking work legislation . |
| 16 | Insensitive Roman government provoked the Jewish revolts of ad 66 , 116 , and 132–5 , the last ending in their expulsion from Jerusalem and its transformation by Hadrian into a wholly Gentile city , Aelia ( Hadrian 's family name ) Capitolina ( because a shrine of Jupiter of the Capitol was built ) . |
| 17 | He plunged headlong into the controversy over the architectural style for New Delhi , urging the imperial government to adopt the Mogul style for its new capital as a gesture of goodwill towards their Indian subjects . |
| 18 | In 1918 he was commissioned by the Canadian government to record the naval base at Halifax , Nova Scotia . |
| 19 | On Jan. 16 , the central government informed the Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir , Farooq Abdullah — whose National Congress ( Farooq ) party was allied to the formerly ruling Congress ( I ) — that Gen. ( retd ) K. V. Krishna Rao was to be replaced as state Governor . |
| 20 | Everyone in local government would accept that central Government set the broad parameters for overall spending , which is perfectly legitimate . |
| 21 | The duty to carry out certain services is imposed on local authorities and as such services are of a nature affecting the whole of the country , for example , the police , or trunk roads , it has long been the practice for Central Government to assist the local authority financially . |
| 22 | This exposé and the Salvation Army spectacle were symptomatic of a carefully organized campaign by purity workers and feminists to press the Liberal government to pass the Criminal Law Amendment Bill , which had been before Parliament since 1883 . |
| 23 | Distrust of the motives of the National government prevented the Labour Party and the Left from supporting measures such as rearmament and conscription which were the logical outcome of the failure of " appeasement . |
| 24 | Secondly , it wished to mount a national campaign to force the National government to allow the Spanish Government to buy arms . |
| 25 | Hardly any of the studies of the crisis go on to consider why the National Government broke the specific pledges upon which it had been formed and went to the country as a government in an election which bore some considerable resemblance to the ‘ coupon election ’ of 1918 . |
| 26 | The Australian Government met the British request by sending the Royal Australian Air Force 's Dakota transports of 38 Squadron to Malaya , deploying in May 1950 . |
| 27 | However , despite all the emergencies , in the first instance , the Declaration of the Rights of the Peoples of Russia ( of 18 November 1917 ) boldly committed the new Bolshevik Government to support the national self-determination of Russia 's peoples ‘ even to the point of separation and the formation of an independent State ’ . |
| 28 | In the afternoon we visit Ruthven Barracks , near Kingussie , an infantry barracks built by the Hanoverian government following the Jacobite rebellion of 1715 . |
| 29 | In 1972 , the Swedish government hosted the United Nations Stockholm Conference on the Environment and called for international action to reduce transboundary movement of air pollution . |
| 30 | The Swedish government welcomed the positive opinion , and reiterated its view that neutrality or defence considerations would not form an obstacle to Sweden 's accession to the EC . |