Example sentences of "government [verb] [verb] an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On May 13 the government agreed to sign an accord with Iran providing for the despatch of a 50-strong Iranian team to help put out oil fires in Burgan province . |
| 2 | Zambia is one of the countries in which the government has made an effort to sustain expenditure on education and its share in GDP has not actually fallen . |
| 3 | The Commission claims that the government has breached an EC directive on dangerous substances in groundwater and surface water . |
| 4 | The Government has indicated an intention to set up some 20 such colleges in Inner City areas . |
| 5 | Once an arm of the Post Office as a government department , telecommunications was first re-located ( 1969 ) in a public corporation and is now experiencing a ‘ liberalisation ’ phase as the present government has introduced an element of competition into the provision of telecommunication services through re-definition of the British Telecom monopoly . |
| 6 | The Vietnamese government has signed an agreement with the UN Development Programme intended to help conserve biodiversity , to be financed by the Global Environment Facility ( GEF ) . |
| 7 | The government has started an advertising campaign that will draw attention to health hazards . |
| 8 | The government has ordered an investigation into the circumstances of the accident as well as a public inquiry into tanker movements around the coasts of Britain . |
| 9 | The government has ordered an investigation into procedures used by Social Services over the handling of allegations of the Satanic abuse of children in Rochdale . |
| 10 | The British government has launched an advertising campaign to persuade householders to use less electricity and heating fuel as their contribution to reducing global warming . |
| 11 | The Government has set an objective of having a structure of NVQs which , by the end of 1992 , covers 80 per cent of the working population of the UK . |
| 12 | A British captain at one time ran the Chinese navy and the Persian government tried to get an American to run its finances . |
| 13 | Our system of criminal justice demands that the government seeking to punish an individual produce the evidence by its own independent labours , rather than by the cruel , simple expedient of compelling it from his own mouth . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | A government wishing to destroy an opposition , an ethnic minority , a minority religion or a ‘ heretic ’ cult , characterised its members as enemies , beyond the state , non-persons , so that moral principles of society need not be applied to them . |
| 16 | The local garrison of French soldiers at Abéché did not intervene , the French government having adopted an attitude of neutrality in what it regarded as an " internal affair " . |
| 17 | The new government 's four priorities were ( i ) negotiating European Community ( EC ) membership ( the outgoing government having submitted an application on July 1 , 1991 — see p. 38353 ) with a view to holding a referendum on the issue by September 1994 ; ( ii ) breaking the pattern of economic stagnation and re-establishing the country 's reputation for growth and enterprise ; ( iii ) deregulating areas such as health and child care ; and ( iv ) establishing a long-term , sustainable policy on the environment . |
| 18 | In January 1989 , the Government decided to implement an EC directive , forcing all new toys to bear the European ’ CE ’ safety mark . |
| 19 | In 1976 central government did take an initiative to try to influence local policy-making in favour of the long-stay dependent groups . |
| 20 | Unrest had been growing in the Transylvanian region ever since December 1989 when the new National Salvation Front ( NSF ) government had reached an agreement with the Hungarian government to restore ethnic and cultural rights denied to the Hungarian community of 2,000,000 people by the former regime of Nicolae Ceausescu . |
| 21 | Earlier yesterday the government had defeated an opposition censure motion in the lower house of parliament . |
| 22 | Voice of Ethiopia radio , broadcasting from Addis Abada on Sept. 25 , stated that on that day the government had granted an amnesty to 120 political prisoners in Asmara ; it had recently ordered the release of 500 prisoners in Eritrea . |
| 23 | The Corporation 's major vehicle assembler in Turkey was in serious difficulties , due to the fact that the new Government had slapped an embargo on the importation of components to conserve its diminishing currency reserves . |
| 24 | After further meetings it was reported on July 20 that the Liberian government had accepted an ECOWAS peace proposal , providing for ( i ) a ceasefire ; ( ii ) the deployment of a regional peacekeeping force ; and ( iii ) the immediate formation of a government of national unity . |
| 25 | Notwithstanding the constitutional changes which led up to the general election of July [ see p. 37603 ] , the Habré government had remained an alliance of faction leaders lacking any real popular support . |
| 26 | On Nov. 6 it was announced that the government had signed an agreement the previous week to pay compensation to Jews living in eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union who had been persecuted by the Nazi regime and had thus far been unable to claim compensation under a West German agreement dating from 1952 . |
| 27 | On July 11 the government had passed an emergency budget to prevent the economy from collapsing . |
| 28 | The International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) announced in a press release of July 12 that the Mongolian government had filed an application to join the IMF which would be considered " in accordance with prescribed procedures " . |
| 29 | On Feb. 1 the state news agency CTK announced that the government had revoked an agreement with the Soviet State Security Committee ( KGB ) , thus rendering any further KGB activities in Czechoslovakia illegal . |
| 30 | The government had launched an offensive on April 17 , and estimated that at least 330 people had died between then and May 19 , after which there was a noticeable intensification in the fighting . |