Example sentences of "government [verb] [verb] [art] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government planned to increase the UK 's annual capacity for dealing with toxic waste from 83,000 tonnes to 500,000 tonnes . |
| 2 | The Commission claims that the government has breached an EC directive on dangerous substances in groundwater and surface water . |
| 3 | Since 1970 , the Venezuelan government has encouraged the Piaroa to form larger communities in downriver positions closer to the administrative centre . |
| 4 | The government refuses to release a Scotland Yard report on the death , and is instead running its own commission of inquiry . |
| 5 | In expanding on this point they do develop some important arguments concerning the constraints which would face a socialist government attempting to advance an AES ( for instance , the problems of ‘ forcing ’ investment referred to above , and the potential conflicts between such a government and the trade unions , given the need to raise labour productivity in order to develop a tenable trading position for the national economy ) yet ultimately their position tends to a form of defeatism . |
| 6 | In January 1989 , the Government decided to implement an EC directive , forcing all new toys to bear the European ’ CE ’ safety mark . |
| 7 | In September 1991 the Greek government had rejected a US request for his extradition , and his trial had opened in October 1991 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Only when it became clear , through a libel action against Le Matin early in 1913 , that the government had misled the Commons did the Unionists move into action . |
| 10 | If the grid had remained under the control of the generating companies , it would have meant that the government had accepted the CEGB 's view that an integrated network was the key to efficiency and lower prices . |
| 11 | It was reported on May 15 that the government had commissioned the UK oil company , the Kuwaiti British Fire Group , to put out 73 fires with an option on another 127 based on results in the Sabriya and Arrawdatayn oilfields . |
| 12 | Earlier , the Iraqi government had told the UN sanctions committee that 6,000 children had died as a result of the embargo . |
| 13 | The Iraqi government had informed the UN that same evening that it accepted all 12 UN resolutions without conditions . |
| 14 | On July 23 the government had informed the UN that " the minimum requirements for imports of foodstuffs [ was ] estimated at US$2,600 million for 1991 " . |
| 15 | Now , with all their claptrap about citizens charters , the Government have had the BBC send to every Member of Parliament letters carrying the Tory party propaganda that they can not allow pensioners to have a free television licence . |
| 16 | In December 1987 Mafart was allowed to return to France in defiance of the agreement because it was alleged he was ill , although the French government refused to allow a New Zealand doctor to examine him . |
| 17 | The US government refused to release the ODA report , saying it was ‘ classified ’ . |