Example sentences of "government had [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 | In February 1988 the Fiji government had sent a contingent of troops to Rotuma after an attempt by the islanders to secede [ see also p. 36700 ] . |
| 3 | On Jan. 20 the government had announced a delay in the formulation of its public- and private-sector reforms , after meeting labour leaders opposed to its economic programme . |
| 4 | At the end of August , with inflation , exacerbated by the Gulf crisis , running at an annual rate of 22.7 per cent , the government had announced a wage increase of only 7.1 per cent for the final quarter of the year under the automatic wage indexation system , due to be abolished in 1991 . |
| 5 | In September 1991 the Greek government had rejected a US request for his extradition , and his trial had opened in October 1991 . |
| 6 | The new German government had gone a stage further , adopting a target of a net reduction in C02 emissions of between 25 and 30 per cent by the year 2005 . |
| 7 | Earlier , the government had ignored a UN deadline ordering the release of the IAEA inspectors along with all documents " they deem appropriate " by Sept. 24 . |
| 8 | Every in-coming Labour government had inherited a mess from the Tories , Mr Kinnock said . |
| 9 | John MacGregor , Secretary of State for Education , said yesterday that it was misleading for the union to say the Government had made a mistake . |
| 10 | The Japanese government had indicated a willingness to provide " economic co-operation " to compensate for its colonization of Korea from 1910 to 1945 , but refused to accept any liability for the post-1945 period . |
| 11 | By the early 1970s the federal government had devised a formula for limiting student numbers in over-subscribed subjects : the notorious ‘ numerus clausus ’ rule . |
| 12 | Cristiani had earlier given the impression that the government had accepted a proposal by UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali on Oct. 23 to extend the deadline ( currently Oct. 31 ) for the completion of the UN peace process , to give both sides more time to comply with the details of the accord . |
| 13 | Although the Polish government had imposed a ban on waste imports since July 1989 , the effectiveness of this legislation was questioned because of the ease with which waste could be illegally imported . |
| 14 | On July 4 a goodwill visit to Port Vila by two Australian navy ships ( scheduled for July 9-12 ) was cancelled as a mark of Australian displeasure , and on July 29 it was reported that the Australian government had imposed a ban on all high-level contact with Vanuatu until Dec. 31 , 1992 . |
| 15 | The calf was born after the government had imposed a ban on the feed suspected of causing BSE , leaving maternal transmission as the most likely cause . |
| 16 | The government had imposed a limit of four hundred and ninety-three pounds , but Lambeth , predicting that fifteen percent of people would n't pay , revised that level to five hundred and twenty-one pounds . |
| 17 | Aquino made it clear in an interview that a new one-year notice would not be issued until the government had held a referendum . |
| 18 | It was reported on April 11 that the government had signed a ceasefire agreement with the Pa-o National Organization , a small group which had operated in the hill country of southern Shan state . |
| 19 | Reports that the government had re-imposed a food embargo were denied by Trade Minister Saleh on Nov. 17 . |
| 20 | The Assam government had filed a suit in the Supreme Court arguing that its boundary with Nagaland should be based on the 1925 boundaries of the then Naga Hills district . |
| 21 | On Jan. 22 it was reported that the government had ordered a tightening of security at the prison holding Pablo Escobar amid reports that he had been able to continue running his drug cartel through visitors . |
| 22 | However , press reports on Jan. 2 stated that the government had ordered a halt to all offensives against the Tamil Tigers . |
| 23 | Prime Minister Anerood Jugnauth , whose coalition government had won a majority in legislative elections on Sept. 15 [ see p. 38427 ] , announced on Oct. 22 that Mauritius would become a republic on March 12 , 1992 . |
| 24 | ( On Sept. 7 , at the end of a two-day debate for which the UK House of Commons had been recalled from its summer recess , the UK government had won a vote of confidence over its handling of the Gulf crisis , by 437 votes to 35 . ) |
| 25 | The tariff reform camp had a bonus in 1911 from events in Canada : Laurier 's Liberal government had negotiated a Reciprocity Agreement with the United States that cut across all of the arguments for imperial preference . |
| 26 | The Irish government had introduced a bill to provide stiffer penalties for terrorists . |
| 27 | According to the Middle East Economic Digest of Jan. 24 the government had revived a commission on economic Islamicization to seek a compromise between the banks and the sharia ( Islamic law ) courts . |
| 28 | The UK government had issued a licence approving the dumping and was reportedly considering at least 10 further licences . |
| 29 | The government had issued a decree on the same day suspending public activities " so that internal order should be preserved " . |
| 30 | It was reported at the beginning of October that the Lao government had issued a decree suspending the commercial exploitation of timber resources . |