Example sentences of "government [Wh det] [vb past] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The coming of age of [ political ] democracy in our society ’ was , in the event , marked in 1979 not by the return to office of the Labour Government which had written the terms of reference for the Bullock Committee , and to which the trade union movement might look for the advancement of industrial democracy as the movement had specified it . |
| 2 | And the conclusions : ‘ a realistic appraisal of conditions … leads to the conclusion that the only alternative open to the US was full-scale intervention on behalf of a Government which had lost the confidence of its own troops and its own people . |
| 3 | The softening of the US stance reflected the increased diplomatic contact with the New Zealand government which had followed the replacement of Prime Minister David Lange by his Labour Party colleague Geoffrey Palmer in August 1989 [ see p. 36852 ] . |
| 4 | But the Labour Government which had intended the Festival as a celebration of welfare-minded , egalitarian , planner 's Britain — a Britain where identity cards were still not abolished — was , by the time it opened , hanging on by a slender majority of six and , by the time it ended , on the point of being ejected . |
| 5 | The Britons claimed to discern a ‘ hidden hand ’ in British government which had delayed the victory against Germany in the war , and argued that Jews had organized an international conspiracy designed to promote anarchy and disorder in the world . |
| 6 | Keynes began work on it during the worst year of the slump , under a government which had slammed the door on his favourite project of public works . |
| 7 | They knew that the government which had passed the order prohibiting the supply of oil to Southern Rhodesia was sufficiently realistic to know it could not be enforced . |