Example sentences of "government had [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The collapse of the Labour government had little effect on the Party 's isolation . |
| 2 | Under martial law , large public meetings and political activity had been banned and the government had broad powers to restrict freedom of speech and of the press . |
| 3 | I wondered if Lili and Robert were short of money since his government had impoverished Lili 's father . |
| 4 | In 1914 the Russian government had good cause to avoid war . |
| 5 | ‘ Your Government had many friends in South East Asia . |
| 6 | Theoretically the government had greater leeway to introduce reforms to improve their conditions and increase their productivity . |
| 7 | concerned the other day that the government had second thoughts on some of the proposals there and I hope that they will reconsider . |
| 8 | When industries were first nationalized , many of them immediately after the Second World War , the government had two concerns . |
| 9 | The Government had two objectives : first to improve the country 's relations with the Community , damaged by years of squabbling over the Community 's demonstrably unfair agricultural and budgetary mechanisms , which had severely disadvantaged Britain , and , second , to fulfil what was understood to be the explicit goal of the Treaty of Rome , the establishment of a free trade zone based upon economic co-operation between member states . |
| 10 | By mid July , thanks to the vigilance of Lord Stair , the British government had ample indication of what was afoot . |
| 11 | In both the 1983 and 1987 general elections the government had strong press support , with only the erratic Maxwell-owned tabloid , the Daily Mirror , to support Labour , along with the Alliance-inclined Guardian and the Observer on Sundays . |
| 12 | The heads of government had regional integration in mind when they formed the Caribbean Community ( Caricom ) in 1973 . |
| 13 | My aim was to modernize the health service and I believe that the Government had significant success . |
| 14 | The Liberal Democrat peer Lord Bonham Carter asked whether the Government had any contingency plans if Vietnam refused to accept them , but Lord Brabazon could only say that ‘ hopefully ’ the standard procedures to be used would not involve force . |
| 15 | ‘ In order to properly defend our clients , ’ Shaughnessy explained later , ‘ we decided that we should serve subpoenas on a number of Federal agencies in an effort to determine whether the government had any documentation which would either confirm or dispute what Mr Aviv had reported . ’ |
| 16 | ( 2 ) Directing that the money remain in court , that , where solicitors sought payment out to them of money belonging to a foreign state , if the court was not satisfied that the solicitors had authority to act on behalf of that state , it should , of its own motion if necessary , require them to obtain that authority and ensure that the money remained under the court 's control meanwhile ; that the factors to be taken into account in deciding whether a regime existed as the government of a state were whether it was the constitutional government of the state , the degree , nature and stability of administrative control that it exercised over the territory of the state , whether Her Majesty 's Government had any dealings with it and the nature of any such dealings and , in marginal cases , the extent of its international recognition as the government of the state ; that on the evidence , M. 's interim government did not become the constitutional successor of the former government and was unable to show that if it was exercising any administrative control over the territory of the Republic of Somalia ; and , accordingly , the instructions and authority the solicitors had received from the interim government were not from the Government of the Republic of Somalia , and no part of the proceeds in court should be paid out to the solicitors without further order of the court ( post , pp. 750G–H , 757E–G ) . |
| 17 | The initial application was for : ( i ) Madame Bihi to be joined as a party to the proceedings as a representative of the Democratic Republic of Somalia ; ( ii ) paragraph 3 of the order of Saville J. not to be brought into effect , ( iii ) the court to direct letters to be written to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office asking what state in Somalia was recognised by Her Majesty 's Government as a foreign sovereign state and with what entity , if any , therein Her Majesty 's Government had any dealings of a governmental nature ; and ( iv ) the court to request the Attorney-General to appoint an amicus curiae . |
| 18 | But over and above that , most Americans in the late eighteenth century believed that , in so far as government had any impact on their lives , it would be local government , it would be the government of their state and not the remote government in Washington which most people in the eighteenth century had never visited or knew anything about erm or li knew little of what it did . |
| 19 | Education is a great political issue today , but it was not until the second quarter of the 19th century that the government had any interest in it . |
| 20 | Nonetheless , the overwhelming majority of those with some formal education , primary or above , considered that national government had some effect . |
| 21 | In the countries studied in which a proportion of the population had received no formal education ( Italy and Mexico ) , only a small proportion of those without an education felt that national government had some effect . |
| 22 | However , MacArthur doubted whether the Soviet Union would attack Japan — ‘ Even if the Soviet Government had aggressive intentions towards her it would be incapable of carrying them out , unless it could secure mastery of the air and either had a Far Eastern fleet of its own or possessed the means of neutralising any action by our own fleet . ’ |