Example sentences of "government [verb] [verb] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beset by mounting criticism at home , and abroad , over the way the issue had been handled , the Japanese government agreed to defer the fifth group of demands and in May 1915 delivered the remainder in the form of an ultimatum . |
| 2 | The government has issued the first licence permitting the irradiation of food . |
| 3 | The Belgian government has ordered the first multi-language version of Chemdata from the National Chemical Emergency Centre . |
| 4 | The inability of the States of Western Europe to play a decisive role in the solution of these new questions was shown clearly by the impotent resentment with which the French government had to watch the first partition of Poland in 1772 and the Russian annexation of the Crimea in 1783–84 . |
| 5 | As for training , as my hon. Friend the Member for Bosworth ( Mr. Tredinnick ) has just reminded us , the Government have introduced the first and only guarantee anywhere in Europe of a two-year training place for every 16 and 17-year-old who needs it . |
| 6 | The government intended to achieve the first aim primarily through council housing , relegating privately-built housing to a secondary position . |