Example sentences of "government had [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Besides , the magazine reported that almost unbelievably , the government had stopped advance copies of scientific annual reports being issued to weekly journals because London 's evening newspaper , The Standard , had printed ( heinous ! dastardly ! ) details of awards to Falkland troops as much as 12 hours before they were officially released . |
| 2 | On Feb. 6 , however , the Portuguese news agency Lusa reported that the Angolan government had presented new peace proposals to Zaïrean mediators . |
| 3 | The rally , which the government had declared illegal , was nonetheless attended by some 6,000 at a stadium in Nairobi . |
| 4 | The Dutch court , acting under Article 15(2) of the Hague Convention which the Netherlands Government had declared applicable , issued a default judgment . |
| 5 | The government had to give local authorities a succession of higher grants ! o buy off opposition . |
| 6 | For example , ‘ Its leaders had proved incapable of meeting the crisis confronting them , its troops had lost the will to fight , and its Government had lost popular support ’ . |
| 7 | The government had rejected repeated appeals by the SPLA that the 300,000 civilians to be allowed to evacuate Juba . |
| 8 | Mr Eggar insisted that the government had poured enormous sums into the industry . |
| 9 | The government had prepared ambitious reconstruction plans , partly devised to put a moral basis into the war effort and partly produced by progressive ministers and their advisers . |
| 10 | In the meantime discussion of a National Government had become open and serious between MacDonald and Snowden and the Conservative and Liberal leaders . |
| 11 | The Times of June 8 reported that following the riots the government had granted Belgian nationality to 40,000 immigrants , most of whom came from north Africa , and had made it easier for those born in Belgium of foreign parents to gain citizenship . |
| 12 | It was subsequently announced that the government had granted unconditional indemnity to 40 people , including the ANC 's entire NEC , for an initial three-month period from May 19 . |
| 13 | On July 26 , Cabinet ministers announced that a new committee would review the financial benefits that the previous government had made available in order to encourage settlement in the occupied territories . |
| 14 | The government had made serious proposals during 1988 about reforming the graduate assignment system because of its glaring inefficiencies . |
| 15 | In chapter 2 it was pointed out that the Thatcher government had made strong efforts to curb overall local government expenditure . |
| 16 | A World Bank official reported that the government had made considerable progress in monetary and exchange rate policies . |
| 17 | On May 18 Barzani claimed that the government had accepted Kurdish demands for democracy , including the separation of the ruling Ba'ath Party from the state , freedom of the press , and free elections . |
| 18 | Relations had first been resumed on June 19 , after the Taipei government had promised financial aid worth US$50,000,000 , but the decision was suspended on June 28 , after a storm of protest . |
| 19 | Bray said the Government had starved British science of resources and pledged that Labour would increase civil research and development ‘ as quickly as possible ’ from 1.8 per cent of GDP to 2.5 per cent . |
| 20 | Despite a major security operation the government had proved incapable of suppressing the rebellion by force , and had failed in numerous attempts to achieve a ceasefire through negotiation . |
| 21 | Mozambique 's Frelimo government had abandoned rigid Marxist-Leninist ideology in the course of 1989 [ see p. 36804 ] , and the draft of a new constitution was currently being debated . |
| 22 | Central government had encouraged new towns with light industry to spring up in the valleys but the impact of these industries as an employer of part-time farmers had been very low . |
| 23 | Meanwhile , the local radio station in the capital of Spain , Unión Radio , gave out news of the insurrection in Spanish Morocco , confirming what everyone except the government had deemed imminent for months . |
| 24 | Reports in the Independent of April 2 said that the Iraqi government had used fixed-wing jets in defiance of US ceasefire terms [ see p. 38081 ] and had employed chemical bombs and phosphorous shells to kill " hundreds of thousands " of Kurds . |
| 25 | Indeed , the government had to make major concessions during the committee stage , especially to Labour critics . |
| 26 | Speaking in Skelton , in the marginal Langbaurgh constituency , he said the Government had taken tough measures against the scourge of car crime . |
| 27 | But the government had taken elaborate precautions to crush any resistance . |
| 28 | The Heath government had taken statutory controls over prices , incomes , and dividends and its 1972 Industry Act permitted large-scale state intervention in industry . |
| 29 | It was reported on Sept. 12 that the government had ordered federal prosecutors to investigate the loss of US$67,500 million by the Central Bank over the past decade . |
| 30 | There were reports in late December that the government had allowed limited supplies of fuel to enter Kurdistan after Kurdish leaders imposed a Dec. 23 deadline to end the two-month long economic blockade [ see pp. 38548 ; 38598 ] . |