Example sentences of "government has [vb pp] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Already the Canadian government has retreated from a plan to cull 300 wolves and they have been reintroduced into American national parks . |
| 2 | However , the practice of incremental change under this Government has led to a much more comprehensive coverage of meeting the needs of disabled people . |
| 3 | But in a letter to the Times , a group of scientists , including many from Oxford , claim that over the past twelve years , the lack of funding given by the Conservative government has led to a ’ dramatic deterioration in the quality and depth of British science . ’ |
| 4 | Officials say they have identified new sources of timber that would not conflict with protecting the owl , but environmentalists are concerned that the government has called for a much smaller reduction in the timber " harvest " than the Thomas report . |
| 5 | The Swedish government has called for a ban on the international trade in the bluefin tuna . |
| 6 | * The Russian government has called for a comprehensive moratorium on weapons testing by all nuclear states . |
| 7 | Finally , in devising structures for essentially new but potentially problematic industries ( problematic as a result of natural monopoly issues ) such as cable TV and cordless telephone communication , the government has experimented with a variety of vertical systems and restraints . |
| 8 | The British government has applied for a one-year exemption from European Community environmental legislation requiring all new cars to be fitted with catalytic converters from 1 January 1993 . |
| 9 | The judgements that have to be made are complex , not least because local government has existed for a long time and the opportunities for building up capital or depleting it have been great . |
| 10 | That 's sticking a plaster on the cash haemorrhage of what will be the biggest sum a British Government has borrowed in a year . |
| 11 | The government has resorted to a variety of expedients to deal with teacher shortages . |
| 12 | One quarter of the chamber is under suspicion of involvement , local government has ground to a halt in many parts of the country and public works contracts have all but dried up . |
| 13 | THE BELGIAN government has put off a decision on whether to stump up cash for the nuclear plant being built by France at Chooz — a finger of France sucking into Belgian territory . |