Example sentences of "[adj] government [vb past] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if the French government had been inefficient in Paris it had certainly been busy in New Zealand . |
| 2 | Though it was not admitting it , the Japanese government had been ready to do so all along . |
| 3 | There was some speculation that the Saudi government had been encouraging " worst-case " estimates in an effort to attract international assistance . |
| 4 | The Vietnamese government had been wary of accepting non-volunteers , fearing international ( and principally United States ) condemnation . |
| 5 | Afterwards he said that the South African government had been aware of Duli 's intentions but had failed to warn him . |
| 6 | No one in the Sudanese government had been willing to meet her , she said , and the Sudanese government had not responded to approaches made by the UK ambassador to Sudan , Allan Ramsay , in his capacity of chairman of the group of west European donor countries in Khartoum . |
| 7 | Observers compared the plan to Poland 's " shock therapy " reforms and noted that the Russian government had been slow to build on the progress made by democratic forces in the failed coup . |