Example sentences of "government [vb past] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Swedish government sought the extradition of the applicant to face trial for drug trafficking offences in respect of which P. , an alleged accomplice who had been convicted of similar offences , had made a statement to the Swedish court implicating the applicant . |
| 2 | Can he therefore confirm that either the Secretary of State has breached the security rules or that the excuse of national security has been used merely to cover the fact that the Government made the decisions on political rather than on military grounds ? |
| 3 | This policy approach was , however , overtaken by the events of 1990 , when the new Collor government agreed the plan , described earlier , to reduce trade friction with the USA . |
| 4 | That looks bad not just because the Government commissioned the report , but because they refuse to address its contents . |
| 5 | The government commissioned the review after Robert Maxwell 's unchecked theft from his companies ' pension funds ; the manager of those funds was regulated by IMRO , one of the self-regulatory organisations ( SROs ) supervised by the SIB . |
| 6 | The British government led the way in Europe with its tough Drug Trafficking Offences Act in 1986 . |
| 7 | Jessup felt the ROK government realised the necessity of solving pressing economic problems . |
| 8 | Even the government realized the importance of cosmetics in keeping up morale amongst women workers . |
| 9 | The government redefined the categories of unemployed in 1982 and 1983 , for example , excluding men over 60 , counting only those claiming benefits instead of those registered as unemployed ( this change excluded mainly married women seeking work , but not entitled to benefit ) , and various training and employment schemes for young people kept perhaps another 600,000 off the unemployment list . |
| 10 | The government asked the UK hotel industry to come up with a workable system for implementing the European Commission 's directives on package travel . |
| 11 | In the late 1950s the government asked the CEGB to modify the design of a number of advanced gas-cooled reactors . |
| 12 | On April 17 the Iraqi government asked the UN to relax the ban on Iraqi oil exports so that the country could buy food and meet " humanitarian needs " worth US$942,500,000 . |
| 13 | Mr Ramaphosa suggested that the government timed the arrests in order to delay the talks precisely when they were at last poised for a breakthrough . |
| 14 | In 1873 Gladstone 's government passed the Judicature Act ( succeeded by further statutes over the following two years ) . |
| 15 | Thus , while the British government shared the concern in Washington over Soviet encouragement of a separatist movement in the northern Iranian province of Azerbaijan in the early months of 1946 , Bevin wisely chose to act merely in parallel with the United States at the UN . |
| 16 | The American Government sold the land to some white settlers . |
| 17 | On July 31 the government announced the receipt of R8,000,000 from the South African government as compensation for the abortive coup by South African-back mercenaries in 1981 [ see pp. 31513-15 ] . |
| 18 | On Aug. 10 the United Kingdom government announced the banning of the Ulster Defence Association ( UDA ) , with effect from midnight . |
| 19 | Last year , when the Government announced the proposals , Labour appeared to be in favour of the reform of local government structure and the establishment of a local government commission . |
| 20 | With the financial markets showing some evidence of recovery , the government announced the Aug. 28 emergency package , amounting to 10,700,000 million yen ( 2.3 per cent of gross national product ) , which , it estimated , would increase economic growth by 2.4 per cent in the 12 months from October . |
| 21 | In the November review of both 1987 and 1988 , the Government announced the freezing of child benefit payments since the 1988 statement there have been numerous ominous statements , all stressing that the future of the benefit is ‘ under review ’ . |
| 22 | Earlier this year , the Government announced the abolition of the poll tax and the introduction of the council tax . |
| 23 | The Plymouth yard 's company accounts for the financial year 1989/90 reveal the talks began after its managers anticipated a substantial cut in their future workload months before the Government announced the size of the Options for Change defence cuts . |
| 24 | On Dec. 15 the government announced the dismissal of three BJP-controlled state ministries , in Himachal Pradesh , Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan . |
| 25 | Typically , in the wake of the uprisings of 1985 in Britain the government announced the advent of a new policy measure , the introduction of eight Inner City Task Forces to Moss Side ( Manchester ) , Chapeltown ( Leeds ) , Notting Hill ( London ) , North Peckham ( London ) , North Central ( Middlesbrough ) , Highfields ( Leicester ) , St Paul 's ( Bristol ) and Handsworth ( Birmingham ) . |
| 26 | A confrontation followed when the government announced the annulment of congress decisions and replacement of the elected leadership ; a general strike was called for Sept. 14 , causing serious disruption for three days . |
| 27 | It had been the blackest day of the war when the government announced the rationing of tea . |
| 28 | On Oct. 15 the government announced the formation of a National Agrarian Commission . |
| 29 | Leaders of the United Liberation Front of Assam ( ULFA ) agreed to end their four-year rebellion after the government announced the suspension of army operations on Jan. 13 . |
| 30 | Also on Sept. 9 the government announced the privatization of Credito Italiano , the country 's sixth-largest bank , and of Nuovo Pignone , the heavy engineering subsidiary of ENI , the state-owned energy corporation , together with a new system of income assessment to halt tax evasion . |