Example sentences of "government [vb -s] [vb pp] [pn reflx] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet in bravely opting for the high-risk , high-competition approach , the government has left itself an out . |
| 2 | What the procedure does not permit is an exploration of alternative approaches , an understanding of the views of outside groups ( unless they think it worth briefing MPs ) and there is no scope for public opinion to form and react before the government has committed itself to a definite approach to the problem . |
| 3 | For some time now , we , the Jewish people , have had joy in our hearts because the British Government has committed itself , by the Balfour Declaration , to the establishment of a National Home in Palestine for the Jewish people . |
| 4 | You may know that the Government has committed itself to producing a National Sustainability Plan by the end of this year , for submission to the United Nations Sustainable Development Commission . |
| 5 | The government has committed itself to reducing carbon dioxide emissions to 1990 levels by the year 2000 . |
| 6 | Friends of the Earth 's Tropical Forest spokesman described the report as " the story of an ecological catastrophe in the making " , and added that " the government should have the courage to publish the report — after all , the British people paid for it … the government has let itself be led by the nose by the timber trade into suppressing the report for the narrow commercial advantage of those involved . " |
| 7 | THE Government has drilled itself into a well on oil jobs as it ‘ scrambles out of a hole on pit closures ’ , Alex Salmond , the Scottish National Party leader , said yesterday . |
| 8 | Future Labour Government 's committed itself to doing that , and I would suggest that the Secretary of State should do it , because we 're not guaranteed to receive that money at all . |