Example sentences of "government [verb] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A complication from the government 's point of view was that the Sunday Times had contracted to publish extracts from the diaries and in fact did so before the government sought a gagging injunction . |
| 2 | ‘ The Palace and the Government make a serious error of judgment if they think people will tolerate this unquantified privilege . ’ |
| 3 | The Prime Minister told my right hon. Friend the Member for Islwyn ( Mr. Kinnock ) that the Government make a large contribution to the UN development agencies , but he must be aware that our contribution has been cut by 38 per cent . |
| 4 | The Government made a good move in calling in Price Waterhouse , because clearly there was concern among residential care home owners about their funding through the income support mechanism . |
| 5 | Although , in the early 1980s , the government made a successful attempt to make non-marketable debt more attractive , it is sales of marketable debt which remain the dominant means of funding the PSBR . |
| 6 | On May 29 , 1990 , the French government agreed a new aid deal with Poland , rescheduling of $870,000,000 of bilateral debt . |
| 7 | A change of government produced a temporary halt , when Labour , who returned in February 1974 , stopped further expansion until after the Annan inquiry , But under the Thatcher Government new franchises were again allocated and by 1988 46 ILR stations were covering about 85 per cent of the UK population . |
| 8 | The 1974 Labour Government produced a White Paper in late 1975 entitled Our Changing Democracy outlining its proposals for devolution . |
| 9 | On Jan. 30 , 1991 , the ruling Liberal Party in Quebec released a report which offered a " last chance " to Canada by demanding that the federal government accord a special status to Quebec whereby the province would have jurisdiction over almost all of its domestic affairs . |
| 10 | Morel , a shipping clerk who had taken up campaigning journalism on behalf of Liverpool 's African merchant interests , set up the Congo Reform Association in 1903 , following his success in persuading the Government to issue a formal protest about the brutal regime of forced labour exercised by the Belgian King , Leopold , in the Congo . |
| 11 | The Government appointed a special advisor to report upon possible solutions for community care and this report was published in early 1988 . |
| 12 | The government appointed a ministerial committee to run the port , headed by Mohammed Yussuf Beydun , Minister of Water Resources and Electricity . |
| 13 | With the highest ranking officers of the old FDP under arrest or in hiding and about 150 other senior officers dismissed from their posts , the government placed a two-year limitation on the new commander 's term of office , ordered retirement after 25 years ' service and made regional commanders subject to civilian authority . |
| 14 | After independence in 1980 , Zimbabwe 's government placed a new priority on the three quarters of a million black farmers who had hitherto been neglected . |
| 15 | He refused a seat on the dominion council because the new government lacked a representative assembly . |
| 16 | Their view was that the government lacked a clear strategy in its second term . |
| 17 | The ruling Liberal Democratic Party ( LDP ) in March asked the government to draft a new bill by April authorizing Japanese military personnel to assist UN peacekeeping operations . |
| 18 | Mandela indicated on Aug. 13 that a statement of intent by the government to implement a non-racial constitution might be sufficient for the ANC to call for the ending of sanctions against South Africa . |
| 19 | However , when calls for a compulsory call-up which would share the burden became stronger , the government passed a Military Service Act which came into force in August 1916 , six months after similar United Kingdom legislation . |
| 20 | you wo n't move over and let a labour government introduce a national minimum wage . |
| 21 | These were not new expedients ; but their regular and systematic application to the ends of government effected a solid gain in efficiency . |
| 22 | The following day , as the UK government announced a similar decision , the chemicals company ICI declared that it would stop making CFCs as from the same date . |
| 23 | On Sept. 2 the government announced a three-stage programme to remove the vestiges of communist control and integrate Estonia politically and economically with the rest of Europe . |
| 24 | On May 28 , 1991 , the government announced a new transport initiative which would ( i ) bring to an end the monopoly of freight and passenger services on its own tracks in advance of an eventual privatization of British Rail ; ( ii ) improve grants for the construction of freight distribution facilities ; ( iii ) involve the private sector in more road construction ; and ( iv ) relieve urban road congestion . |
| 25 | Prior to polling day the government announced a new package of economic stimulants including public works expenditure and tax cuts . |
| 26 | The government announced a five-year reorganization programme of the armed forces on Dec. 7 ( originally to have been publicized on Dec. 3 ) . |
| 27 | In line with the terms of the agreement the government announced a supplementary budget on April 2 , which provided for further tax cuts and increases in the subsidies on agricultural produce and house building . |
| 28 | The government concentrated a great deal of effort during 1990 on restoring China 's image abroad , adversely affected by the Tiananmen Square massacre of 1989 . |
| 29 | Did executive and financial government undergo a substantial transformation during the Tudor period ? |
| 30 | The 11 commercial and merchant banks , in which the government has a controlling stake , include the three largest Nigerian banks , First Bank of Nigeria , Union Bank of Nigeria and United Bank for Africa , regarded as among the country 's best managed . |