Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] the [noun prp] government " in BNC.
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| 1 | A public consensus began to form , especially in rural areas , that something had to be done to force the Westminster government to act against the killing and crime . |
| 2 | The EC Environment Commissioner , Ioannis Paleokrassas , has threatened to take the UK government to court over its alleged failure to conduct a proper environmental impact assessment over the planned motorway through Oxleas Wood in south-east London . |
| 3 | IBM Corp has agreed to pay the US government $14.8m to settle that potential False Claims Act civil suit after IBM admitted to providing reconditioned or remanufactured computer equipment to the US government between 1980 and 1990 , contrary to contract provisions — under the contract , IBM was required to notify the government prior to delivery of anything other than new equipment , and the investigation revealed that IBM delivered approximately 15,000 reconditioned or remanufactured machines to the government ; IBM voluntarily owned up that it might not have fulfilled its obligations under the contract after conducting an internal audit . |
| 4 | Up to now , the PAC has refused to meet the Pretoria government or to join the Convention for a Democratic South Africa ( Codesa ) negotiations on a multi-racial constitutional agreement . |
| 5 | Meanwhile , Progressive Democrat leader Des O'Malley today warned that extradition laws for terrorist suspects had to be tightened to endorse the Dublin government 's condemnations of IRA attacks . |
| 6 | The DUP view was that the ban was intended to placate the Dublin government . |