Example sentences of "government [vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet in 1982 , Lloyd 's won exemption from the Financial Services Act by which the British government sought to protect ordinary people from financial charlatans , accepting instead that Lloyd 's should regulate itself ( which it has failed to do ) . |
| 2 | No wonder the government sought to protect private sector interests transitionally . |
| 3 | The system used to distribute RSG after 1981 became increasingly complex as the government sought to contain local expenditure . |
| 4 | The ANC also received encouragement from the Congress of South African Trade Unions ( COSATU ) which announced on April 29 that it would consider staging a general strike if the government failed to take effective steps to halt the violence . |
| 5 | the National government failed to convince informed opinion that it was genuinely concerned about the spread of Fascism . |
| 6 | The impetus of reform and modernization was dissipated in the town hall where the government failed to insert effective instruments of its will . |
| 7 | In particular , the government failed to attract foreign airlines to take a stake in the national carrier Lloyd Aéreo Boliviano ( LAB ) , having refused as " inadequate " a bid by Iberia , the Spanish state airline . |
| 8 | ‘ The Government failed to provide adequate protection of pensions and it has a moral responsibility to help the Maxwell pensioners . ’ |
| 9 | In the interests of détente , because of our belief in the value of friendly relations where possible , our government agreed to return this criminal to the British in exchange for a Soviet citizen falsely accused in London . |
| 10 | According to some reports the government agreed to allow three agencies ( including the powerful National Security Council ) to be removed from presidential control in 1994 . |
| 11 | In 1972 , the government tried to promote new mining ventures with the Mineral Exploration and investment Grants Act . |
| 12 | ‘ Between 1964 and 1970 the Labour government tried to serve two masters . |
| 13 | Throughout the 1980s , the government tried to achieve this aim through a variety of measures . |
| 14 | Again , the Conservative government tried to encourage such activity by enabling them to make one-off tax deductible donations of up to 3 per cent of annual dividends . |
| 15 | Like other state-sector workers , the Government promised to find new jobs for those they laid off , but in reality most have been left to their fate without support . |
| 16 | In such circumstances , cuts in one sector over which the Government happened to have direct control could merely create an imbalance and shortages . |
| 17 | Raids were becoming so costly by the mid-eighteenth century that the imperial government began to undertake substantial fortification work along the southern marches which resulted in the erection of a series of connecting fortified lines ( lini ) which stretched from the southern Urals to Kuznetsk . |
| 18 | In 1944 , the government began to provide central support for workshops for the blind and disabled people which allowed the Edinburgh factory to invest in its future . |
| 19 | In the same year the Dutch government began to subject would-be diplomats to a test of this kind : a year earlier Gorchakov had tried to establish something similar in Russia . |
| 20 | Soviet government pressed to divert Siberian rivers |
| 21 | Since the Argentinian government started issuing provisional licences to non-authorised radio stations in 1986 , over 2,300 stations have sprung into being . |
| 22 | The Industrial Revolution brought about educational awareness in the working classes and the government started to give small amounts of funding to the schools run by charitable religious societies in 1833 . |
| 23 | The government started printing more money soon after the savings-freeze and inflation has picked up again . |
| 24 | This strategy was scrapped when it became apparent that the government needed to take some action before the students revved up again for another outbreak of violence . |
| 25 | On Aug. 5 , the government decided to appoint two Prefects to each county — one Hungarian-speaking and one Romanian-speaking . |
| 26 | It had been anticipated that several of the governors appointed by Congress ( I ) would be replaced by the new government , but rather than make selective changes of those appointees of the former regime the government decided to ask all governors to resign with the intention of reinstating some of them later . |
| 27 | However , without waiting for the Royal Commission the Liberal Government decided to promote two pieces of legislation that significantly modified the role of the poor law in the provision of social security , the Old Age Pensions Act of 1908 and the National Insurance Act of 1911 . |
| 28 | The government chose to retain collective worship in schools , but to change the law to reflect ‘ present practice ’ in schools . |
| 29 | To raise the enormous sums required , the government learned to float long-term loans , which Parliament agreed to underwrite by appropriating the yield of specific taxes for the payment of interest . |
| 30 | In most fields , the Stormont government aimed to follow British practice in so far as this benefited its citizens but to act separately when special local conditions required separate treatment . |