Example sentences of "government have [vb pp] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | This means that German coal producers can expect DM 550 million as coking coal aid and DM 184 million as investment help in 1984 but the government has expressed a disinclination to subsidise exports , which it plans to phase out . |
| 32 | The British Government has expressed a commitment to reducing the fuel consumption of organisations and institutions occupying non-domestic premises . |
| 33 | The South African government has compiled a report outlining the country 's environmental problems , citing air pollution , poor water quality , and mounting waste problems as the most serious . |
| 34 | Its government has imposed a ceiling of 200 billion roubles on central-bank lending to the other republics during the second quarter of this year . |
| 35 | The French Government has imposed a tax on the use of waste disposal sites . |
| 36 | The Japanese government has criticized a plan proposed by Indonesia , Singapore and Malaysia to levy a toll on ships passing through the Malacca strait in order to pay for pollution of the seaway [ see ED 56 ] . |
| 37 | The government has declared a state of emergency and asked for assistance from the US . |
| 38 | To ease the burden of changing immediately from general rates to Community Charge the Government has implemented a scheme of transitional relief . |
| 39 | Since 1983 , the government has funded a series of one-term full-time courses in polytechnics and universities to provide intensive training for designated teachers with specific responsibility for pupils with special needs in ordinary schools ( see Meeting Special Needs in Ordinary Schools by Seamus Hegarty in this series for information on research on evaluation of their effectiveness ) . |
| 40 | Instead of introducing procedures which can be relied upon to identify and protect all those at risk of human rights violations in their own country , Government has introduced a range of measures which create obstacles in the path of those seeking asylum in the UK . |
| 41 | In the UK , the Conservative government has introduced a reform of local taxation which replaced domestic rates with the so-called ‘ community charge ’ or ‘ poll tax ’ . |
| 42 | In this the government has had a measure of success in that twenty-three separate sales have gone ahead , and most of them have been greatly over-subscribed . |
| 43 | The Government has had a Cabinet committee looking at ways of reducing unemployment but its recommended package is not due to be announced for a couple of weeks . |
| 44 | The Zimbabwe government has revived a plan to build a 250-kilometre pipeline to supply the city of Bulawayo and its environs with water from the Zambezi river . |
| 45 | But the Martian Government has signed a contract guaranteeing weekly delivery to the Furus — the native tribes of Mars — in return for which the Furus work the red iron mines . |
| 46 | The creation of the welfare state and the expansion of local and national government has produced a range of ‘ welfare professions ’ , and has resulted in the growth of the medical and teaching professions and the greater employment of professionals in government bureaucracies . |
| 47 | But after a 7-month-long public inquiry which saw vigourous opposition from green groups to the plan , the Government has backed a recommendation by its Inspector that the bypass should not be built to the east of the city . |
| 48 | The Swedish government has reaffirmed a pledge to phase out nuclear power by the year 2010 , but has reversed earlier undertakings to begin shutting down its 12 nuclear reactors in 1995 . |
| 49 | For the first time a British government has established a mechanism enabling it to determine the content and purposes of education along broadly similar lines to other Western European democracies . |
| 50 | In these circumstances the same output of OX 1 is provided after the central government has provided a cut in taxes which affects the median voter . |
| 51 | This Conservative Government has taken a lead in working to protect the ozone layer . |
| 52 | While making it easier for people to build up considerable capital assets , and to pass these on intact , the Government has taken a number of measures that have allowed many people to acquire capital assets for the first time . |
| 53 | The government has issued a warning that fish caught in inshore waters around Britain may not be fit to eat , but ministers will not say which fishing grounds are affected . |
| 54 | The UK government has issued a consultation paper on the further protection of wildlife and habitats designed to conform with an European Community ( EC ) directive on habitats which is due to come into force in June 1993 . |
| 55 | The Hungarian government has issued a protest to Czechoslovakia over the continued construction work on the Gabcikovo Dam on the Danube — a focus of growing tension between the two countries [ see ED 57 ; passim ] . |
| 56 | Since the early 1980s , the Chinese parliament has enacted four major laws on the protection of the environment , and eight laws on the protection of natural resources , and the government has issued a series of administrative regulations and environmental standards . |
| 57 | In Norway , for example , the government has instituted a system of approval which authorizes persons designated by the Ministry of Church and Education to ask the authors of school texts to remove sexist passages . |
| 58 | In the last few years the Conservative government has instituted a programme called ‘ Next Steps ’ . |
| 59 | Faced with the financial consequences of its commitment to a hard law and order policy the Government has attempted a conjuring trick . |
| 60 | This year the Norwegian government has allowed a catch of 160 minke whales for commercial purposes . |