Example sentences of "government set [adv prt] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Discontent over the operation of the new service was one of the factors that led the Labour government to set up a Royal Commission on the National Health Service in 1976 . |
| 2 | Marsh 's book had considerable influence and played a role in stimulating the US government to set up a Forestry Commission to manage the nation 's resources . |
| 3 | William Waites , of the University of Nottingham 's Department of Applied Biochemistry and Food Science , has urged the government to set up a new organisation along the lines of the US Food and Drug Administration , but without responsibility for drugs . |
| 4 | ‘ I invite the Government to set up a review body to investigate in depth the whole of our system of administration of justice . |
| 5 | The pressure group , made up mainly of small business customers , wants the Government to set up an independent body to investigate cases like his . |
| 6 | In October the human rights organization , Amnesty International , called on the SWAPO government to set up an impartial inquiry , claiming that at least 350 prisoners were still unaccounted for . |
| 7 | In early 1991 the Radioactive Waste Management Advisory Committee ( RWMAC ) had urged the government to set up an independent consultative service for the " small users " of radioactive material , since H.M. Inspectorate of Pollution was not able to provide the support required for such a service . |
| 8 | The League is now calling on the Government to set up an inquiry into the disposal of farm animals which fail to go through the proper slaughter-house and food production system . |
| 9 | If they ever do reveal controversial findings , as occasionally happens if a government sets up a committee to examine the activities of its predecessor , the report often merits little more attention that a small paragraph in Le Monde . |
| 10 | The Miners ' Federation of Great Britain , which had passed resolutions in favour of both workers ' control and nationalization , supported state control and in order to avoid industrial conflict the Lloyd George Coalition government set up a royal commission , chaired by Lord Sankey , to investigate the coal industry . |
| 11 | The Government set up a £12 million fund two months ago to compensate 75 people who , like Mr Ashe , contracted HIV while undergoing surgery . |
| 12 | In 1985 , the government set up a Nitrate Coordination Group ( NCG ) including DoE , the Ministry of Agriculture , Fisheries and food ( MAFF ) , the Fertiliser Manufacturers ' Association and the National Farmers ' Union , but excluding consumers , environment or health groups . |
| 13 | In order to compensate firms for the loss of their retention rights , the federal government set up a scheme of export subsidies . |
| 14 | The defence argument put paid to yet another proposal in 1924 but in 1929 the Labour Government set up a Committee of Inquiry which concluded that a ‘ double barrelled ’ rail tunnel could probably be built although it would be necessary to drive a pilot tunnel to demonstrate its feasibility beyond doubt . |
| 15 | The Government set up a Public Schools Commission to investigate the Direct Grant Schools : this brought together the sixty Heads of Direct Grant schools in the Headmasters ' Conference in much the same way as the Taunton Commission had led to the creation of the Conference itself in 1869 . |
| 16 | In 1843 the Government set up a Royal Commission on the Health of Towns ; in 1844 the Health of Towns Association was founded , whose central committee included Disraeli and Lord John Manners , the other moving spirit in the Young England Movement , characterized as Lord Henry Sydney in Coningsby . |
| 17 | In January 1990 the Bonn government set up a special working group to examine the benefits open to refugees from East Germany following widespread discontent . |
| 18 | The government set up a high-level council for alternative economics on Nov. 6 , under the chairmanship of Liberal Party leader Igor Merkulov , to work out a strategy for building a market economy , including measures to strengthen the currency coupon and , later , Ukraine 's new currency against the US dollar . |
| 19 | In 1917 the British government set up a new department of overseas trade designed to bring commerce and foreign policy into more effective contact : its head was to be responsible to both the foreign secretary and the president of the board of trade . |
| 20 | In 1989 the Government set up a Committee to investigate reform of the law relating to media mis-statements and invasion of privacy : its report may provide further impetus for reform . |
| 21 | But what I would like to say before we look at those is that the Act was actually based upon a report — the government set up a committee to look into special education several years ago , and this reported about two years ago . |
| 22 | In 1839 the government set up an inspectorate to further central supervision of the way the growing state aid was being spent . |
| 23 | The Polish government set about a land reform as soon as it felt able . |