Example sentences of "government has [vb pp] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In return for the group 's agreement to purchase and write off $4 million worth of Mexican debt from foreign creditors , the government has undertaken to carry out a $2.6 million programme of support for forest conservation efforts , with a particular focus on the Selva Lacandona , which is the largest remaining tropical rainforest in North America . |
| 2 | The British government has pledged to review planning procedures which allow development of important wildlife sites . |
| 3 | THE Government has pledged to keep tabs on radar detectors after The Northern Echo revealed how unscrupulous motorists used them to dodge speed traps . |
| 4 | The Government has pledged to address the problem . |
| 5 | The Government has pledged to increase the number of assisted visits to two a month , and is putting more resources into prison visitor centres . |
| 6 | The French government has threatened to veto the vital Gatt agreement , aimed at averting a damaging international trade war , if its demands for a better agriculture deal are not met . |
| 7 | The French government has threatened to veto the vital agreement if its agriculture demands are not met . |
| 8 | Interestingly , during the same conversation , discussion switches to Merseyside , when Hounam makes it quite clear he believes someone in the Conservative government has intervened to prevent an investigation into a serious instance of corruption . |
| 9 | However , the government has vowed to create a single one . |
| 10 | The Government has vowed to outlaw the sale by touts of tickets outside grounds on the day of matches . |
| 11 | In line with the general policy on benefits in kind , the Government has sought to improve the neutrality of the tax position between employees provided with company cars and those who are not . |
| 12 | On the one hand , the Conservative government has sought to improve the workings of the market for housing by deregulation . |
| 13 | In contrast , no government has sought to remain in office after losing a parliamentary vote of confidence . |
| 14 | While there has been a world recession to contend with on top of the problems the UK would otherwise have faced since 1979 , public choice theorists would not be surprised that the Conservative government has sought to minimize the level of reported unemployment . |
| 15 | Fearful of the consequences of higher tea prices , the government has sought to stabilise them by fiddling the weekly Calcutta auctions . |
| 16 | Following each political sea-change in France , since the foundation of the Fifth Republic , the new President and/or head of government has sought to reform broadcasting : in 1959 and 1964 under de Gaulle ; in 1969 and 1972 under Pompidou ; in 1974 under Giscard d'Estaing ; in 1981 , 1982 and 1986 under Mitterrand . |
| 17 | ‘ The Government has sought to get out of small firms ’ way , ’ he said . |
| 18 | Government has sought to encourage departments to act as if they were commercial organisations , or indeed to become profit-making operations . |
| 19 | The scheme does not cover owner-occupiers who require assistance with mortgage interest payments , or boarders requiring help with their board and lodging charges , although the Government has given notice that it intends to review these payments . |
| 20 | Hugh Geach , head of programme support services at Television South , explains : ‘ Everything the Government has done has been designed to open up television to market forces , to encourage new channels and competition for advertising . |
| 21 | The Government has delayed responding to the need to equalise pension rights because it means equalising State retirement ages . |
| 22 | The Irish government has decided to acquire Castletown , Co Kildare , the country 's foremost Georgian house from the Castletown Foundation . |
| 23 | Ursprung told a joint meeting of the Royal Society and the Foundation for Science and Technology in London that the Swiss federal government has decided to reverse 17 years of neglect and give basic science a hefty financial boost . |
| 24 | The government has decided to take power over sex education out of the hands of local authorities and give it to school governors and parents . |
| 25 | Despite the advice of its own advisory bodies , the British government has decided to allow more than 50 sensitive areas of inshore coastal waters to be explored for oil and gas . |
| 26 | * The Ukrainian government has decided to hold an international contest to work out a method of converting the fourth reactor at Chernobyl into an environmentally safe system . |
| 27 | The government has decided to back private ownership . |
| 28 | ‘ I do n't know whether it 's coincidental , ’ he says , ‘ but there was a big article on the front of the Japanese equivalent of the Financial Times saying that the government has decided to improve financial reporting standards . |
| 29 | The Czechoslovak government has decided to proceed with the controversial Gabcikovo hydro-electric dam project on the Danube . |
| 30 | The Bulgarian government has decided to suspend production at the country 's biggest lead plant for several months because it is causing severe pollution to nearby agricultural land . |