Example sentences of "government [vb past] [verb] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The previous Polish government failed to shut down the famous Lenin shipyard in Gdansk . |
| 2 | Some of these are mirror images of those previously cited ; for instance , the recession meant less need for businessmen to seek out large industrial sites , central government began running down the overspill programmes and giving greater attention to the rejuvenation of inner city areas , and ‘ baby boom ’ was replaced by ‘ baby bust ’ . |
| 3 | By the beginning of the 1960s the government had given up the attempt to encourage employers to take special note of the needs of older workers . |
| 4 | Before leaving for New Delhi , Bhattarai announced on June 6 that the Nepal government had deferred indefinitely the importation of a final consignment of Chinese weaponry " as a gesture of goodwill and to accommodate Indian susceptibilities on this issue " . |
| 5 | It was reported on Aug. 1 that the Albanian government had closed down the Albanian State Bank 's foreign exchange department after losses totalling $170,000,000 were disclosed in the department 's foreign exchange trading since 1988 . |
| 6 | Robin Cook , the shadow trade and industry secretary , said the Government had put forward the biggest tax increases for any Budget in history and described it as a ‘ Budget of failure and a Budget of cheats ’ . |
| 7 | Labour chiefs branded the rush of openness too late after the Government had hushed up the payments for 18 months . |
| 8 | On Feb. 28 the government refused to carry out the destruction of Scud missile materials . |
| 9 | Turning to propaganda , the government attempted to open up the constitutional issues and the Home Secretary , Sir William Joynson-Hicks put the matter starkly , if exaggeratedly , when he commented , at a meeting on 2 August 1925 at Northampton that : |
| 10 | It was confirmed on July 3 that the government intended to reduce dramatically the number of resident Palestinians . |