Example sentences of "government [vb past] [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A paper presented to the meeting by the British government sought to draw the attention of pro-whaling nations to the attractions of whale-linked tourism , arguing that preserving whales could provide greater financial benefits than killing them . |
| 2 | In the 1960s the government sought to reduce the animist religious confusion in the nation — and centralize its own authority by abolishing the practice of all but five officially sanctioned religions . |
| 3 | In Iraq the government failed to deliver the autonomy it promised in 1970 , and punished the Kurds after their rebellions in 1974–75 and 1986–88 with executions , mass deportations and the demolition of thousands of villages . |
| 4 | Peace was restored after the government agreed to abandon the tax increases . |
| 5 | The Government agreed to address the problem of falling access to justice and they established a review of legal aid eligibility . |
| 6 | Does the Secretary of State recall the letter sent by Mr. Ian MacGregor , the former chairman of the coal board , to every miner in June 1984 , which described as ’ absolutely untrue ’ the claim by mine union leaders that the Government planned to reduce the number of working pits to under 100 ? |
| 7 | It was subsequently announced that the government planned to increase the size of the country 's internal security forces to accommodate some 16,000 " unemployed " militiamen . |
| 8 | The minister also said that the government expected to double the size of the electorate by extending the franchise to women over 21 and to naturalized citizens who had previously been denied the vote . |
| 9 | ( The US government avoided using the word " blockade " at this time , preferring to describe its intention as the " interdiction " of sanctions-breaking . ) |
| 10 | Under the new council tax announced in 1991 ( DoE , 1991 ) the Conservative government proposed keeping the power to limit councils ' right to cap the tax . |
| 11 | The ‘ controversies of the day ’ certainly included the dispute over clause 43 of the Administration of Justice Bill in 1985 , by which the Government proposed to end the citizen 's right to go to the Court of Appeal when a lower court refused to give leave to apply for judicial review of the decision of a Minister or other public authority . |
| 12 | In a white paper on Budgetary Reform ( Cm 1867,1992 ) the Government proposed to combine the publication of expenditure plans with tax proposals as a new combined Budget in December . |
| 13 | However , as the government proposed to separate the Rate Support Grant systems for England and Wales , it decided that it would be logical to have separate pooling arrangements for the two countries ; consequently , there has been a separate pool for Wales since 1981–2 . |
| 14 | The Government tried to improve the water shortage situation by enlarging pipes carrying rainwater down to the sea , but as the tides rose fish entered the pipes and kept popping out into the roadway ! |
| 15 | Páll tells me that no one catches puffin any more , not since the government tried to tax the hunt . |
| 16 | Initially both Baring for the West Indians and Canning for the government tried to limit the effectiveness of the emancipationist case by defining its impulse as inappropriate for parliament to act upon . |
| 17 | With the UN Earth Summit due to open in Rio in early June , the government tried to minimize the impact of the crisis , describing it as a domestic matter . |
| 18 | The 1982 PSOE government tried to alleviate the problem of knowledge by placing senior government officials on the board of RENFE . |
| 19 | A smaller than usual proportion of members who had sat in the Good Parliament were re-elected to this parliament , but it is hard to find evidence that the government tried to ensure the election of their own supporters . |
| 20 | Eventually , the Government intervened to prevent the manufacture of that product in Britain . |
| 21 | When the Conservative government came to abandon the tax after Thatcher 's downfall , however , many of the Conservative Party insisted on keeping some element of the poll tax for the accountability reasons set out above . |
| 22 | My right hon. Friend will remember that when the Government came to power the country was suffering from the problems of being hopelessly non-competitive . |
| 23 | Individuals in the party and the government came to use the situation in whatever way they could to optimize their own position , ranging from exercising the increased power which district and regional officials now had over the citizenry , to carrying out routine tasks perfunctorily while acquiring a significant income from black market activities . |
| 24 | Control had shifted away from LEAs , but central government claimed to lack the power to secure the improvement to education that it sought and which the Conservatives promised the electorate in 1987 . |
| 25 | While it is difficult to draw any definite conclusions from such bald statistics on recorded crime , they clearly posed a major embarrassment for a Government pledged to reduce the crime rate . |
| 26 | Work started on rebuilding utilities and refineries , and the government began administering the operation of the country 's ports , which had previously been under militia control . |
| 27 | In the three years from 1983/4 to 1986/7 , this situation changed and the Conservative government began to make the RAWP targets ‘ bite ’ . |
| 28 | In 1699 the government began to pay the professor of Arabic at Oxford an annual allowance of £100 to enable him to train " young students in the modern Arabick and Turkish languages " who could translate letters from Muslim rulers . |
| 29 | British parliamentary government began to assume the status of a rejected lover . |
| 30 | Britain has an annual trade deficit of around £8bn with West Germany and Mr Pohl 's comments could be relevant to Britain if the Government decided to join the exchange rate mechanism . |