Example sentences of "government have [verb] that [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Farmers are warning that millions of hectares of crops could be lost unless the weather changes , and the government has admitted that drinking water in many towns is of poor quality . |
| 2 | On July 2 , one day after the government had announced that unemployment had reached an eight-year peak of 7.8 per cent , Congress approved legislation to extend unemployment benefits for a further 26 weeks [ for February extension see p. 38757 ] ; the bill was signed by President Bush on July 3 . |
| 3 | And the Government had ruled that planning applications made before July 1988 ( the date when the directive came into operation ) did not need EIAs . |
| 4 | In February 1989 the government had admitted that torture was suspected as a factor in the deaths of 32 prisoners mentioned in Amnesty 's 1988 report [ for which see p. 36565 ] . |
| 5 | But Brown did not tell Pincher that some of those agents had been betrayed with the knowledge and authority of MI6 , as part of Blake 's supposed role as a double agent , because the government had suppressed that part of the story just as it had Blake 's part in the Berlin tunnel affair . |
| 6 | The move brought into the open the so-called " Saddamgate " scandal , the rumbling allegations of which centred upon the charge that the Bush government had concealed that extent of its illegal support for Saddam Hussein prior to August 1990 . |
| 7 | The federal government had proposed that enactment of its September 1991 constitutional reform proposals [ see p. 38429 ] should depend on approval by seven provinces representing at least 50 per cent of Canada 's population , and the NDP could thus have an unexpected degree of influence over their fate . |
| 8 | Since then , the Government have carved that back , and the developing world has lost £10 billion in aid . |
| 9 | I believe that this Government have got that balance right . |