Example sentences of "government [was/were] [v-ing] [to-vb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even before the Antwerp market collapsed in the 1570s , the government was trying to make itself independent . |
| 2 | This request from the court caused some difficulties as it was argued that the government was seeking to impose its views and even a favoured solution of the dispute upon the court . |
| 3 | The judgment effectively absolved it of criminal and civil liability for causing approximately 3,500 deaths and injuries to thousands , and the final settlement was only a percentage of the orginial sum of $3.5 billion that the government was going to sue them for . |
| 4 | Mr Jefferies featured strongly in the confessions of Ivan Boesky and he is quoted in an American magazine this month as saying : ‘ If the government was going to bring me down for something like this , I am going to bring down a lot of other people with me ’ . |
| 5 | New Scientist said that the government was planning to double its money for space in the next few years . |
| 6 | There were several reports of significant clashes between the army and LTTE guerrillas in mid-February , and extensions of curfew regulations in northern and eastern areas , amid speculation that the government was preparing to launch what it hoped would be a conclusive military offensive in the north . |
| 7 | However , even persons as brash as Heath had to recognise continually that the majority was uneasy and dangerous and much effort was expended in monitoring it and in camouflaging the government 's Irish unification objective from the man-in-the-street who , initially , was almost incapable of believing that a British government was endeavouring to cede its own subjects to a foreign power . |