Example sentences of "[art] government had " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government had not acknowledged their arrest but the team had heard rumours of the women 's whereabouts in a military camp and in fact found them there . |
| 2 | Though the Cosgrave government then in power insisted on the appointment , the local population and authorities boycotted the operation of the library , and the government had to concede by moving the librarian elsewhere . |
| 3 | So the Government had to choose much higher frequency and new devices will have to be developed before new mobile telephone services can begin . |
| 4 | The Government had planned to make regulations this autumn requiring statutory appraisal . |
| 5 | Meanwhile , Cecil Parkinson , the Secretary of State for Transport , said the Government had ruled out any idea of helping to fund the ailing project . |
| 6 | Supporting the pensions proposal , Alan Tuffin , general secretary of the Union of Communication Workers , said the Government had saved over £16bn by breaking the link with earnings . |
| 7 | John MacGregor , Secretary of State for Education , said yesterday that it was misleading for the union to say the Government had made a mistake . |
| 8 | His hand-picked President , Francisco Rodriguez , said the government had ‘ all kinds of proof ’ that Washington was behind the coup attempt . |
| 9 | An Egyptian military spokesman said the government had received no official notification of the reported negotiations on the sale , but is interested in obtaining further confirmation . |
| 10 | The Department of Education and Science said yesterday that the Government had spent £19.7m on CTCs and there was a further planned expenditure over the next three years of £106.2m . |
| 11 | People were asking whether the Government had got the economy right , Mr Baker said . |
| 12 | He added that the Government had ‘ neither an exchange rate policy nor an interest rate policy ’ . |
| 13 | At the time it seemed as if the government had crushed the nationalist movement by locking up its leaders for life . |
| 14 | The minister disappointed some supporters when he confirmed the Government had abandoned plans for legislation to curb the activities of the National Union of Students . |
| 15 | David Blunkett , Labour 's local government spokesman , said the announcement meant that the Government had admitted defeat over the poll tax , and that the money was solely aimed at the next election . |
| 16 | Andrew Crisp , from Winchester , said it was nonsense to suggest that the Government had abandoned the entrepreneur by raising the cost of borrowing . |
| 17 | The government had also noted the proliferation of schismatic religious movements over the previous few years . |
| 18 | By 1920 the government had already been giving public support to 7,667,769 children in need . |
| 19 | Indeed , the government had to make major concessions during the committee stage , especially to Labour critics . |
| 20 | The Liberals had decided to end their pact and so the government had no firm majority in the House on which to rely . |
| 21 | Geoffrey Howe 's first budget on 14 June 1979 , only three weeks after the government had been in office , marked out the early objectives of the monetarist advance . |
| 22 | Thus , in February 1981 , in the face of a series of lightning strikes in parts of the coal industry , notably in the Welsh mining valleys , the government had to retreat and extend a subsidy for this struggling industry in a way totally at variance with its basic philosophy . |
| 23 | In both the 1983 and 1987 general elections the government had strong press support , with only the erratic Maxwell-owned tabloid , the Daily Mirror , to support Labour , along with the Alliance-inclined Guardian and the Observer on Sundays . |
| 24 | The government had to retreat over a plan to sell British Leyland trucks to America 's General Motors — partly because of a rooted popular affection for Britain 's ‘ Land Rovers ’ , partly because it had the air of a Westland mark II . |
| 25 | But by the end of the 1980s record balance-of-payments deficits , rising inflation , a weakened pound , and failure to impose the monetary disciplines on which the government had prided itself , suggested that most of the old problems were still present . |
| 26 | By 1978 Britain , under Labour , was still in the EEC , the government had an incomes policy of sorts and had curbed the growth of public expenditure , and private education remained . |
| 27 | The government had retreated : radical Thatcherism backed off from fundamental reform of the system . |
| 28 | Among more radical monetarists and free marketeers there remains disappointment that the government had not done more to shift the middle ground . |
| 29 | The paper claimed that the government had failed to make more progress in changing attitudes because so many beneficiaries of the tax state were opinionformers and hostile to the government 's goals and to free enterprise . |
| 30 | The government had long preferred these white ‘ aliens ’ ( with these low social costs ) to Commonwealth immigrants ( for example in 1969 the number of work permits issued to aliens was 67,788 compared to 3,512 vouchers for Commonwealth citizens ) . |