Example sentences of "[adj] government have [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The German government have already taken the initiative however and independently agreed to accept the principle of government indemnity . |
| 2 | But no one associated with the pending $500m ( £312m ) sale would say whether the West German government has yet indicated its final approval . |
| 3 | The West German government has just adopted its own controls on emissions from power stations and industrial furnaces . |
| 4 | The German government has finally abandoned hopes of bringing onstream its prototype Kalkar fast-breeder reactor , in the wake of sustained opposition from environmentalists , farmers and the Social Democrat administration in North-Rhine Westphalia . |
| 5 | The German government has never spent a lot of money on culture , and after reunification it cut the social , not the cultural , budget which is absurdly low anyhow . |
| 6 | It is called Minitel and the French government had already ordered 600 000 of the things for a couple of years of an experimental run . |
| 7 | The Court ruled that the French government had not examined his requests for compensation " within a reasonable space of time " . |
| 8 | The French government had earlier offered to allow Greenpeace representatives to visit Muroroa , on condition that they refrained from taking samples . |
| 9 | The French government has just approved a whole range of radical spelling changes , proposed by the government-appointed Conseil Supérieur de la Langue Française , which will deform some of the most familiar French words , obfuscate their etymological origins and massacre many an adopted foreign word . |
| 10 | This government has repeatedly talked about ‘ giving the unions back to their members . ’ |
| 11 | They 've now , this government has actually made a , a fifty three year or a fifty four week year . |
| 12 | ‘ This is an historic measure and one of the most important reforms this Government has ever presented to Parliament … |
| 13 | Citing the EC example , he said : ‘ It was Mrs Thatcher who signed the Single European Act , which is the biggest transfer of sovereignty which this government has ever undertaken in any period of our history . ’ |
| 14 | A statement by the Serbian Environment Minister , Pavle Todorovic , said that the Serbian government has also decided to set aside 1 per cent from every investment in " dirty " technology in an environmental protection fund . |
| 15 | By that date the British government had already taken various steps in Ulster to do so . |
| 16 | Klebeck , 86 , had never faced trial for his many alleged crimes in the Alderney camps because the British government had not released relevant classified documents even to the war crimes inquiry set up by the government in 1988 [ see p. 36190 ] . |
| 17 | On the other hand this was also the year when the British government had reluctantly bowed to American pressure and agreed to the establishment of a base in the Holy Loch in the west of Scotland for American Polaris submarines . |
| 18 | Despite promises of reductions in sulphur , the British Government has yet to make much progress . |
| 19 | The British Government has not signed the Charter . |
| 20 | The British government has not shied from the issue . |
| 21 | The British Government has also asked that south Yorkshire , Cornwall , Devon , and Mid Wales be considered for Objective 1 status , but they are not listed in the EC document . |
| 22 | THE British government has just refused to undo , by retrospective legislation , a decision of the law lords that invalidated all interest-rate swaps conducted by local authorities . |
| 23 | The British Government has blindly followed the American ‘ bleed Vietnam white ’ policy to justify its policy of ignoring Cambodia . |
| 24 | The Japanese government has unexpectedly agreed to a ban on drift net fishing . |
| 25 | It will be financed by the Environment Fund of the UN Environment Programme , but the Japanese government has already made a voluntary donation of $2.3 million towards the centre . |
| 26 | The Canadian government has drastically reduced catch quotas for cod after admitting that stocks of the fish on the Grand Banks off Newfoundland are dangerously low . |
| 27 | The Canadian government has repeatedly criticised the Burmese junta 's human rights record , but says it is unable to control the actions of the oil company , even though Petro-Canada is 80 per cent state owned . |
| 28 | The Canadian government has now decided to place observers on New Brunswick fishing boats to assess how and where the porpoises are captured . |
| 29 | Since central government had always paid for new building , local districts and services did not have to face the cost of using buildings and capital , and hence tended to waste space and capital assets . |
| 30 | Central government has neither conducted a national survey of illegal drug use nor developed an adequate system of monitoring known cases other than those identified by medical practitioners-who are anyway partial and negligent in their notifying practices . |