Example sentences of "government [verb] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In February 1961 a summit meeting of the six Common Market governments agreed to create a commission to make proposals for a political union . |
| 2 | During the visit a Franco-Romanian management institute was established and both governments agreed to negotiate a friendship and co-operation treaty . |
| 3 | I invite Allied governments to consider establishing a Nato Arms Control Verification Staff . |
| 4 | THAT governments do make a difference is an important presumption of free competitive elections . |
| 5 | The 137 governments participating agreed a statement which committed them to working towards a legally-binding climate convention , which should be ready for signature at the Brazil conference on environment and development in 1992 . |
| 6 | Earlier , on Feb. 15 , 1990 , the two governments had approved a co-operation agreement . |
| 7 | Rather governments have favoured a policy of buying home-produced goods . |
| 8 | Blind and deaf people have also been recruited for certain jobs in central government , and a number of state governments have reserved a percentage of jobs for the disabled . |
| 9 | ITALY POST-WAR Italian governments have lasted an average of one year . |
| 10 | The Japanese and Chinese governments have signed an agreement to carry out joint tests on equipment to desulphurize coal in Chinese power plants . |
| 11 | The Soviet government failed to provide a warning of the accident to European governments and when information was offered it was incomplete . |
| 12 | The prospect that the primate centre could be closed raised such a storm of protest that the government agreed to delay a decision until after the completion of a report on the centre 's performance by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences . |
| 13 | On May 13 the government agreed to sign an accord with Iran providing for the despatch of a 50-strong Iranian team to help put out oil fires in Burgan province . |
| 14 | It is all very well for the Government to pretend to mount a campaign against drugs and drug imports , but at the same time they have allowed another Department , the Treasury — Conservative Members do not want to hear — to cut 400 customs officer jobs . |
| 15 | The Bulgarian government has restarted a reactor at the Kozloduy nuclear plant , which was found to be in a " very poor condition " during an inspection by the International Atomic Energy Authority last year [ see ED nos 48 , 49/50 ] . |
| 16 | The government has adopted a decree laying down the legal framework for licensing companies to carry out recovery and treatment of packaging waste . |
| 17 | Since 1972 the UK government has adopted a policy of progressive reductions in the quantity of lead permitted in petrol . |
| 18 | The South African government has appointed a panel to review plans by Richards Bay Minerals ( RBM ) , part of Rio-Tinto Zinc , to mine titanium from sand dunes at Lake St Lucia in Zululand . |
| 19 | The Government has denied a decision has already been taken to close Rosyth , Scotland 's biggest employer with 4,000 workers , and an announcement is expected next month . |
| 20 | At home , the Japanese government has spearheaded a campaign to discredit reports that originated from its own news agency , Kyodo . |
| 21 | By imposing new policies and challenging traditional methods of decision-making , however , the government has disturbed a number of interests . |
| 22 | The government has made a mess of its showpiece , the privatisation of the profitable Muslim Commercial Bank . |
| 23 | Zambia is one of the countries in which the government has made an effort to sustain expenditure on education and its share in GDP has not actually fallen . |
| 24 | The Prime Minister , for example , writing in Action for Cities in 1988 argued that ‘ the Government has created a climate which supports enterprise and has set about removing obstacles in the way of inner city recovery ( HMSO , 1988a , p. 2 ) . |
| 25 | The Danish government has lodged a protest with its Norwegian counterpart over the poaching of thousands of seals in Greenland 's territorial waters by two Norwegian-owned ships . |
| 26 | The Thatcher Government has lost a vote only on rare occasions . |
| 27 | THE BRITISH government has extracted a price for generosity in providing funds for the British Antarctic Survey ( BAS ) . |
| 28 | As Bromberg tells us at the beginning of her excellent mixture of history of science and politics , ‘ The US government has supported a research programme in fusion energy since 1951 , and in the 30 years through 1980 it has expended more than $2 billion . |
| 29 | The Commission claims that the government has breached an EC directive on dangerous substances in groundwater and surface water . |
| 30 | In the modern period even the apparatus of Cabinet government has become a masking façade for monocratic rule by the British Prime Minister ( Benn , 1981 ) . |