Example sentences of "government [vb pp] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1985–6 , the government transferred a quarter of the overall funding for work-related FE courses in further education colleges from local authorities ' budgets ( by deducting it from the rate support grant , the predecessor of the revenue support grant ; see Chapter 8 ) to the MSC . |
| 2 | Has the government got a policy to assist ? |
| 3 | THE city of New York has had its government reshaped a couple of times with- in the past century . |
| 4 | The peseta plunged in hectic trading as Spain 's government requested a devaluation of its currency within the ERM . |
| 5 | The government called a session of the National Security Council ( NSC , comprising the four heads of the armed forces and police , the President , the President of the Senate , the President of the Supreme Court , and the Comptroller-General ) , which met on March 27 and agreed that each branch of the armed forces would make its own report public . |
| 6 | With the professors ' backing , disaffected St Petersburg students tried to set up a " free university " at the beginning of 1862 , but they gave up the attempt after a month when the government arrested a professor for lecturing in a supposedly provocative manner on the upcoming national millennium . |
| 7 | After the blitz on London in September nineteen forty , the government introduced a scheme whereby payments for damage to the furniture of persons earning less than four hundred pounds a year would be made , up to one hundred percent of the damage . |
| 8 | And er the War ended as you know in November eighteen and er when the War came to an end the the Government introduced a form of service whereas if er we youngsters volunteered say if you volunteered for two year they gave you twenty pound and two months leave you see , if you volunteered for three year they gave you forty pound or was it thirty , thirty forty , and er three months leave . |
| 9 | A trade agreement was due to have been concluded within two years of Spanish accession but it was not until Feb. 19 , 1988 , that the Andorran government appointed a negotiating team . |
| 10 | The most recent case was in 1973 when the government appointed a commissioner to take over the housing responsibilities of the Clay Cross Urban District Council because the council refused to operate the provisions of the Housing Finance Act 1972 and charge higher rents to council tenants . |
| 11 | In January 1986 , the government appointed a team of officials ‘ to consider the determinants of expenditure on the legal aid scheme by looking at its operation and administration in practice , and make recommendations . ’ |
| 12 | In 1940 , before the Germans began to apply pressure , the Vichy government implemented a series of laws to bar Jews from positions of influence , excluding them from the judiciary , the civil and military service , teaching , and the media . |
| 13 | In early January the government achieved a breakthrough in its investigation of trading fraud in the futures markets , when a Chicago jury convicted 10 soyabean brokers and traders of more than 300 charges including racketeering , mail and wire fraud and violations of the Commodities Exchange Act . |
| 14 | However , in December the government achieved a breakthrough in its protracted campaign to trace and retrieve the huge sums believed to have been looted from the country by the Marcos family , when the Swiss Supreme Court ruled that funds held by the family in Swiss bank accounts should be returned to the government of the Philippines , but stipulated that this could be done only after a Philippines ' court had ruled against Marcos [ see p. 37961 ] . |
| 15 | Well the Health Secretary , Kenneth Clarke er has , er has said er for some time now that er it would be grave consequences if the government established a precedent and just allowed er out of court settlement payments to be made . |