Example sentences of "it [vb past] the government " in BNC.
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| 1 | The money was as shadowily outlined as the permission , but , like the EFR agreement itself , it revealed the government 's unwillingness to relinquish once and for all its place in the search for inexhaustible energy . |
| 2 | Although the SPD agreed with the bill 's intention and much of its detail , it used its majority in the Bundesrat to reject the bill because it empowered the government to use telephone-tapping and mail-interception to gather evidence of illegal arms sales . |
| 3 | Accordingly , it announced the government 's intention of reducing the numbers on teacher-training courses in the public sector colleges from the maximum of 114,000 in 1972 to between 75,000 and 85,000 initial and inservice places by 1981 . |
| 4 | His North Sea assault gave the environmentalists a powerful and unique spokesman ; it made the government sit up and take notice ; and it speeded up the long and painful process of making the public aware that there was a very real problem to solve , which was going to involve personal sacrifices . |
| 5 | She said it — it helped the government . ’ |
| 6 | He added that it seemed the Government had been pushed into making the decision by the major chain bookmakers , such as Ladbrokes and William Hill . |
| 7 | The treaty was not , predictably , adopted by the member states but it encouraged the governments to look again at reform . |
| 8 | Firstly , it allowed the Government a potential escape route from the escalating costs of its apparently futile tough tactics . |
| 9 | During the minority of Henry VI it dominated the government of the country . |
| 10 | It ordered the government to pay F |
| 11 | It indicated the Government 's own recognition of the difference in legal status between protocols , which are annexes to treaties , and Declarations , which are not . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , combined with last week 's plunge in GDP growth , it prompted the government to say the recovery is ‘ not solid ’ . |
| 13 | It urged the government to make greater efforts to rectify this situation . |
| 14 | It urged the government to recognize further sites to meet its commitment to protecting Britain 's wetlands . |
| 15 | It accused the government of engaging in ‘ the naked use of brute state force and the suppression of individual rights . ’ |
| 16 | It accused the Government of failing to comply with European Community obligations to protect part-timers , 90pc of whom are women , from less favourable treatment than fulltimers . |
| 17 | Introduced after the 1976 military coup , it gave the government sweeping powers to close newspapers without warning and without the right of appeal . |
| 18 | The opposition parties argued , however , that it gave the government too many powers , particularly with regard to the allocation of frequencies and senior appointments . |
| 19 | Mounting pressure was brought upon judges to interpret the law as it suited the government , and when the courts refused to be cowed , the police resorted freely to administrative action . |
| 20 | The new principle was a good one , because it forced the government to live in a world where inflation matters and can not be conveniently assumed away . |
| 21 | Will he explain why he wrote to UKIAS on 7 October threatening that unless it accepted the Government 's proposals he would withdraw its funding or curtail it completely ? |
| 22 | Formally , it mandated the government to fulfil the economic resolution passed last Saturday — the one that began the crisis by forcing Mr Yeltsin to present a new government by July . |