Example sentences of "government [verb] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus late 1989 witnessed continuing public-sector strikes in the course of which the government sought consistently to resist significant wage increases , resulting in a limited rapprochement between the pro-communist General Confederation of Portuguese Workers ( CGTP ) and the General Union of Portuguese Workers ( UGTP — created to combat communist influence in the labour movement ) . |
| 2 | The German government agreed yesterday to join the United States in dropping aid to the Bosnian Muslims and NATO allies discussed final plans for enforcing a no-fly zone . |
| 3 | The Government remain strongly committed to the EFA development programme and to the provision of high quality equipment for the armed forces . |
| 4 | The Government remain fully committed to the Union between Scotland and the rest of the United Kingdom . |
| 5 | As my hon. Friend knows , the Government remain fully committed to the union — a point which is well recognised in Scotland . |
| 6 | The Government remain entirely committed to bringing terrorism to an end through the vigorous and impartial actions of the police and the Army . |
| 7 | Nonetheless , the government became increasingly divided in 1947 on a range of issues , and it was the Communists who were usually at odds with their coalition partners . |
| 8 | During the third century synodical government became so developed that synods used to meet not merely at times of crisis but on a regular basis every year , normally between Easter and Pentecost . |
| 9 | Despite these commitments , the last quarter was a difficult time with the recession and the changes in local government financing both having their effects . |
| 10 | On Oct. 14 the government announced further plans to cut its spending by FM54,200 million ( US$11,700 million ) over three years . |
| 11 | THE GOVERNMENT moved yesterday to stem the confusion surrounding the Maastricht Bill with a pledge that law officers would be on call for the rest of its gruelling passage through Parliament . |
| 12 | Buoyed by its success in the referendum , the government moved swiftly to present revised constitutional proposals . |
| 13 | The Rao government moved swiftly to try and tackle the economic crisis . |
| 14 | The Government moved swiftly to meet their requirement to introduce the landlord and tenant legislation . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , in response to the persistent problems of unemployment in rural areas , the government has increasingly become involved in attempting to stimulate industry in these areas . |
| 16 | Furthermore , legislation of the Thatcher government has increasingly restricted the operation of the closed shop . |
| 17 | Despite this fairly consistent position the Government has today blown a fatal hole in its democratic credentials . |
| 18 | Claims that the Conservative government has successfully protected the countryside by , among other things , more than doubling the amount of approved Green Belt since 1979 . |
| 19 | The government has yet to explain . |
| 20 | The Government has yet to appoint its three Committee members , and this is likely to be a long business , since confusion still reigns following the April elections . |
| 21 | But no one associated with the pending $500m ( £312m ) sale would say whether the West German government has yet indicated its final approval . |
| 22 | Few TVs now use this frequency but the government has yet to announce the end of 405-line TV . |
| 23 | Extra Euro seats for Britain were agreed at the Edinburgh European summit last December but the Government has yet to announce how many seats , if any , Scotland will be allocated . |
| 24 | Despite promises of reductions in sulphur , the British Government has yet to make much progress . |
| 25 | The ministry of agriculture has carried out successful trials on the new tests but says the government has yet to make a final decision on wether to fully adopt the new system . |
| 26 | In Britain , the government has yet to place its safer-sex advertising aimed at ‘ men who have sex with men ’ in non-gay publications , thus by-passing those men who do not identify as gay and so are least likely to be well-informed because of their minimal contact with the gay scene . |
| 27 | The Government has thus done what no government before has done — it has given an inferior tribunal the power to determine the extent of its own jurisdiction . |
| 28 | The government has thus attempted to restrict local authority discretion by reducing the level of income received from the central government via cuts in the RSG and through rate capping . |
| 29 | Despite these possible obstacles to defining the boundaries and content of a local political system , local government has traditionally shown two characteristics of autonomous behaviour which have been reflected in different policy outcomes between local authorities of otherwise similar conditions . |
| 30 | Meanwhile , the rural housing problem , which affects most people in the Third World , is so immense that no government has even tried to tackle it on a national scale . |