Example sentences of "government have [vb pp] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Earlier , on Feb. 15 , 1990 , the two governments had approved a co-operation agreement . |
| 2 | Rather governments have favoured a policy of buying home-produced goods . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ] . |
| 5 | The government has adopted a decree laying down the legal framework for licensing companies to carry out recovery and treatment of packaging waste . |
| 6 | Since 1972 the UK government has adopted a policy of progressive reductions in the quantity of lead permitted in petrol . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | At home , the Japanese government has spearheaded a campaign to discredit reports that originated from its own news agency , Kyodo . |
| 10 | By imposing new policies and challenging traditional methods of decision-making , however , the government has disturbed a number of interests . |
| 11 | The government has made a mess of its showpiece , the privatisation of the profitable Muslim Commercial Bank . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The Thatcher Government has lost a vote only on rare occasions . |
| 15 | THE BRITISH government has extracted a price for generosity in providing funds for the British Antarctic Survey ( BAS ) . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | The UK government has announced a plan to give the public freer access to environmental information , in line with a 1990 EC directive on the subject . |
| 19 | monitoring of the environment The Soviet government has announced a decision to take part in global ecological monitoring by both utilising and contributing to the UN Environment Programme 's GRID database . |
| 20 | The Laotian government has announced a ban on all logging and timber exploitation in an effort to protect its fast-diminishing forests . |
| 21 | The Argentine government has announced a ban on all imports of toxic waste from abroad . |
| 22 | The UK government has announced a ban on the non-agricultural use of the pesticides atrazine and simizine , commonly used to clear weeds from roadside verges , railway lines and footpaths . |
| 23 | The UK government has announced a series of new initiatives for the countryside , in a package involving £22.5 million of new expenditure spread over three years . |
| 24 | The state government has announced a review of parks management . |
| 25 | The Government has announced a record fall in the number of people on National Health Service waiting lists for more than two years although Labour does not agree with the figures . |
| 26 | The Chinese government has announced a $55 million plan to increase the number of panda reserves from 13 to 27 . |
| 27 | Since the 1985 unrest , and particularly after the 1987 General Election , the Government has announced a number of initiatives on the inner city , and it has presented these as part of an effort to rejuvenate depressed areas on a sound basis . |
| 28 | The UK government has announced a number of measures to boost energy efficiency and the use of renewable energy sources . |
| 29 | The French government has announced a moratorium on its nuclear weapons testing programme for the remainder of the year . |
| 30 | The Government has announced a health improvement programme aimed at cutting smoking and drinking . |