Example sentences of "[adj] government gave " in BNC.

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1 The German government gave its support to eventual Polish membership of the European Communities ( EC ) and to Poland 's moves to gain relief on its foreign debt .
2 In the late 1690s the Scottish government gave its support to a proposal intended to enable the country to escape from all its economic problems : a trading company was to be launched which would set up a commercial centre at Darien on the Panama Isthmus .
3 On Jan. 11 the French government gave its approval for a joint venture known as Eurodynamics to be formed by merging the missile development divisions of British Aerospace and the French group Thomson-CSF , as announced by the two companies on Oct. 16 , 1989 .
4 Initially half of the 46,000 French troops stationed in Germany would be withdrawn and the French government gave a commitment to withdraw all its forces ( except the 2,800 troops in Berlin and the 3,000-strong Franco-German brigade ) .
5 The French government gave similar help to some young Frenchmen , but on the same unsystematic basis and small scale .
6 The French government gave no explanation for withdrawing its offer to give the Bosnians a plane , the spokesman said , adding that finally a prominent French businessman gave the refugees his private plane to use .
7 The British government gave him protection , but backed the principle of free speech only as vigorously as was diplomatically comfortable .
8 In little over a year since the British government gave its approval to CB , the Home Office has been inundated with six to eight thousand complaints of interference each month .
9 In a few areas local government agencies took some steps to tackle this problem , but real progress did not come until central government gave local authorities powers to act effectively , and also required them to take such action .
10 It is important to remember that , then , central Government gave a rate support grant equivalent to about 60 per cent .
11 The Iranian government gave assurances that the aircraft would be held in Iran until the cessation of hostilities .
12 Erm in nineteen fifteen , that 's before the er first world war , the federal government gave to the individual states a grand , in aid and grants and support , a grand total of six million dollars .
13 Erm in nineteen thirty seven , that is er after the first New Deal and the second er Roosevelt administration , the federal government gave to the states three hundred million dollars so you can see in percentage terms the enormous er an enormous increase , enormous trans transformation .
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