Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] the [adj] government " in BNC.
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| 1 | The conditions laid down were therefore designed to differentiate the National Government from the Lloyd George coalition , and to make it clear that the National Government was not intended , as the Lloyd George coalition had been , to lead to a permanent realignment of the party system . |
| 2 | As the US government grew increasingly irritated with Israel 's intransigent position on the Palestinian issue , a number of apparently officially inspired reports appeared in the media in late 1989 , evidently designed to embarrass the Israeli government . |
| 3 | The Tories say Labour can not be trusted to form the next Government . |
| 4 | In the country 's first multiparty elections in January 1991 [ see p. 37948 ] , the newly formed MPD defeated the PAICV and was expected to form the next government after the February presidential elections . |
| 5 | The US Congress is expected to raise the Mexican government 's patchy environmental record during discussions over proposed free trade agreements . |
| 6 | The group were accompanied by a slightly older Thakin , Tun Ok ( born 1907 ) who was expected to head the civil government . |
| 7 | Political sources said that Mitterrand loyalists were already in touch with Gaullist Edouard Balladur , 63 , widely expected to head the next government , to discuss the handover from the present prime minister , Pierre Beregovoy . |
| 8 | The European Community 's environment commissioner , Carlo Ripa di Meana , has threatened to take the British government to court for failing to comply with the EC 's drinking water directive , which sets limits on levels of toxic and microbiological pollution . |
| 9 | Details were not released , but reports indicated that Hekmatyar had finally agreed to join the interim government and that Dostam and his forces would be moved out of Kabul . |
| 10 | Hekmatyar had refused to join the interim government , and his forces and artillery still threatened Kabul from the south . |
| 11 | The conditions set out by Samuel were intended to distance the National Government from the Lloyd George coalition which had cast its shadow across the politics of the 1920s . |
| 12 | Fuad Masum , a member of the political bureau of the PUK , was asked to form the first government . |
| 13 | A statement issued by the party noted that Saadeh had tried to persuade the Syrian government to support a postponement . |
| 14 | The Shah himself has tried to have the British government curb the BBC . |
| 15 | This decision has provoked much animus among many who knew him and believed in him , sustaining the view that he had planned to ditch the Labour government . |
| 16 | His model of utilitarian punishment was exemplified most famously in the Panopticon — a prison he designed and narrowly failed to persuade the British government to let him build . |
| 17 | Today he has shed a good deal of that ideology — his speech yesterday was social democratic through and through — but he remains devoid of the work experience relevant to his next task which is to convince the country that he , and Labour , are qualified to form the next government . |
| 18 | A series of uniform regulations would be promulgated to allow the central government to exert overall budget control . |
| 19 | For example , assume that , as a part of the cut in tax introduced by central government , the poorest citizens in this locality enjoyed no benefit ( possibly because their incomes were previously too low for them to be required to pay the central government tax ) . |