Example sentences of "government [vb past] [vb pp] [conj] [pron] [modal v] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The previous day the Russian government had announced that it would extradite him to Germany on Dec. 13 ( where he faced criminal charges in connection with his regime 's " shoot-to-kill " policy on escapees ) if he did not leave Russia . |
| 2 | A leading member of the Medellín drug cartel , Fabio Ochoa , wanted by the United States authorities for drug trafficking offences and the murder of an agent of the American Drug Enforcement Agency ( DEA ) , surrendered on Dec. 19 in what was seen as a vindication of the policy of President César Gaviria Trujillo , who had adopted legal and political methods rather than the previous military offensive against the drug cartels [ see p. 37772 for October proposals ] ; on Dec. 17 the government had said that it would waive extradition to the USA and reduce prison terms for those traffickers who surrendered and confessed to crimes . |
| 3 | In the past the Irish government had insisted that it should be involved in talks between the parties from the start [ see p. 37784 for Oct. 25 meeting between Brooke and Gerard Collins , the Irish Foreign Minister ] . |
| 4 | By Sept. 26 the Syrian government had indicated that it would not participate in the planned third stage of the conference — the multilateral discussions on regional issues — unless Israel had first showed that it was willing to withdraw from Arab land occupied in 1967 . |
| 5 | The treaty had been renewed for 20 years in 1974 but the Yemeni government had indicated that it would oppose renewal in 1994 . |
| 6 | Earlier in March the UK government had indicated that it might resume the forced repatriation of boat people from Hong Kong , which it had begun in December 1989 but suspended soon afterwards [ see pp. 37121-2 ] . |
| 7 | The government had decided that there should be a clinic . |
| 8 | Both sides undertook to take steps to implement these proposals once the British government had established that they would be acceptable to the people of Rhodesia as a whole . |