Example sentences of "government [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government made the audacious decision to make English the official business language in spite of the fact that 76% of the population is Chinese , 15% Malay and 6.5% Indian |
| 2 | When it fell , the property he had been encouraged to buy by government became the proverbial millstone round his neck and seen too late as a self-inflicted woe . |
| 3 | The government expected the Soviet Union to remain Czechoslovakia 's most important trading partner . |
| 4 | The process started in 1947 continued in 19485 ; in March the American government passed the Foreign Assistance Act , to enable the ‘ Marshall Aid ’ proposals to be put into effect , and on 17th . |
| 5 | Every year the government announced the total tonnage to be built of each type of ship and selected which shipbuilders and ( domestic ) owners should be involved . |
| 6 | The Australian Government met the British request by sending the Royal Australian Air Force 's Dakota transports of 38 Squadron to Malaya , deploying in May 1950 . |
| 7 | The government fixed the social rate of interest or test discount rate at 8 per cent and urged nationalized industries to undertake explicit present value calculations for investment decisions using this discount rate . |
| 8 | In the absence of both the ‘ political will ’ and the social forces which would have been required to go beyond the merely ‘ indicative ’ and technocratic attempt to alleviate the balance of payments constraint , the Wilson government used the only effective levers at its disposal to maintain the external balance : the old standby of fiscal deflation ; incomes policy , to hold down both labour costs of British firms and consumer spending on imports ; and then eventually devaluation of the currency which , although it did not abolish the trade constraint , at least temporarily pre-empted speculative pressure on the pound and brought a period of increased price competitiveness . |
| 9 | Whilst welcoming the agreement , the ANC questioned the government 's commitment to the amnesty , pointing out that although the UN stipulated unconditional amnesty for all political crimes , the government retained the exclusive prerogative to grant or refuse amnesty for crimes ranging from leaving the country illegally to murder . |
| 10 | On June 16 the Iraqi government suspended the twice-daily flights between Baghdad and Basra , the last remaining domestic flights , on account of the lack of spare parts . |
| 11 | President Hissène Habré and his government fled the Chadian capital , Ndjaména , on Dec. 1 , initially to neighbouring Cameroon , following the emphatic defeat of Habré 's 30,000-strong army in a three-week campaign launched by an estimated 2,000 rebels of the Patriotic Salvation Movement ( MPS ) . |
| 12 | The government described the small war which broke out a year later ( 2–14 July 1977 ) as an unprovoked Egyptian attack . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , in May the government invoked the National Security Act as a " precautionary measure " in view of the elections [ see p. 38192 ] . |
| 14 | Distrust of the motives of the National government prevented the Labour Party and the Left from supporting measures such as rearmament and conscription which were the logical outcome of the failure of " appeasement . |
| 15 | While it conceded that there had been arrests , the government rejected the other allegations as " groundless " . |
| 16 | The Secretary of State did not tell us that there had been a change in circumstances since the Government rejected the Prior report . |
| 17 | Government rejected the statutory definition approach . |
| 18 | It was this solution which was incorporated into the working of the 1885 act in its final form , when the new Conservative government dropped the contentious clauses extending police powers of search and arrest . |
| 19 | In October the government told the Soviet Union that it wanted to put their mutual trade relationship on a US dollar basis over a two-year period . |
| 20 | The Chinese government told the Lausanne-based Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species ( CITES ) that it will withdraw the exemption it took out when the ban was agreed last October . |
| 21 | Insensitive Roman government provoked the Jewish revolts of ad 66 , 116 , and 132–5 , the last ending in their expulsion from Jerusalem and its transformation by Hadrian into a wholly Gentile city , Aelia ( Hadrian 's family name ) Capitolina ( because a shrine of Jupiter of the Capitol was built ) . |
| 22 | In 1972 , the Swedish government hosted the United Nations Stockholm Conference on the Environment and called for international action to reduce transboundary movement of air pollution . |
| 23 | In 1979 , the Conservative government reduced the standard rate of income tax from 33 per cent to 30 per cent but nearly doubled the standard rate of VAT . |
| 24 | It was with this in mind that in 1979 the government reduced the maximum rate of income tax from 83 per cent to 60 per cent . |
| 25 | Mr Gordon Green , a senior executive member , said the recent educational changes were doomed to failure unless the Government recognised the true value of teachers implementing them by improving pay and conditions . |
| 26 | Three years ago the Government recognised the growing problem for people on low and moderate incomes who could no longer get legal aid . |
| 27 | The French government welcomed the Iraqi " unilateral decision " of Oct. 23 ( which took the form of the Iraqi parliament 's approving Saddam Hussein 's proposal ) . |
| 28 | The Swedish government welcomed the positive opinion , and reiterated its view that neutrality or defence considerations would not form an obstacle to Sweden 's accession to the EC . |
| 29 | The government encouraged the private sector in other ways . |
| 30 | On Sept. 16 the Chinese government opened the southern border with Vietnam at the " Friendship Pass " in order to allow Vietnamese athletes to travel to the Asian Games in Beijing . |