Example sentences of "government [vb past] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The premise on which African governments worked was that if capital could not be had on highly concessional terms it was better to accept it on terms more or less defined by the donors . |
| 2 | She has given voice to those who thought that previous Conservative governments had been too tolerant or ‘ defeatist ’ about the unions , the welfare state , high taxation , and public spending , and too accommodating to other countries , particularly in the European Community and the Commonwealth . |
| 3 | Moreover , although these issues were thrown into sharp relief during the Thatcher administrations , Labour governments had been hardly more liberal . |
| 4 | The US and North Korean governments had been communicating for several years at a low level through the US embassy in Beijing . |
| 5 | This was prompted by reports that the two governments had been providing logistic support for UNITA — South African Foreign Minister Roelof " Pik " Botha , hitherto a negotiator in the conflict [ see p. 39129 ] , had been declared persona non grata on Nov. 6 , apparently in response to these reports . |
| 6 | Sir Patrick , welcoming Irish Foreign Minister Dick Spring , rejected suggestions that relations between both Governments had been at a low ebb after their last talks in July and stressed that both were treating the worsening security situation ‘ very seriously ’ . |
| 7 | One soldier was reported killed and two others wounded during an attack on the military barracks at the coastal town of Tadjoura on the night of Jan. 8-9 , in what the government claimed was the start of an attempted coup . |
| 8 | Reacting to what the government claimed was an unsuccessful military coup against the regime of President Idris Déby on Feb. 21 , the Foreign Minister Mahamat Saleh Hamat on March 2 asked foreign diplomats to ensure that their staff did not " intervene in the internal political affairs of Chad " . |
| 9 | The wide entitlement to reliefs and rebates , which the government insisted were more generous than under the rates ; the existence of safety nets to redistribute income between certain authorities ; and the immediate introduction of capping all fudged the relationship between councils and voters . |
| 10 | In November 1990 Parliament had approved new legislation which the government said was intended to ensure religious harmony , despite criticism from opposition parties that the law would in practice restrict religious freedoms and suppress dissent . |
| 11 | It concerns privatisations that have taken place in the past few years under processes and with measures of regulation which the Government said were more than adequate , dismissing all our criticisms . |
| 12 | He said the Solidarity-led government had been given a chance to implement a ‘ total change ’ from Poland 's communist system to a free-market economy . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | In large areas of Britain the results of the Thatcher government had been mass unemployment , collapsing public services , and urban decay . |
| 15 | In economic policy , of course , this autonomy of government had been further compromised by Mr Heath 's search for agreement with the trade unions on incomes policy between 1972 and 1974 and by succeeding Labour governments . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , the idea of a National Government had been in the air for some time before its actual formation . |
| 17 | The National Government had been allotted a definite task , and on its completion it is understood that Parliament should be dissolved as soon as circumstances permit , and that each of the parties should be left free to place its policy before the electors for their approval . |
| 18 | Though it was not admitting it , the Japanese government had been ready to do so all along . |
| 19 | Only a quarter of the French believed this , and yet their government had been engaged in a series of clashes with the Reagan administration on issues ranging from star wars to Nicaragua . |
| 20 | Clearly there were comparisons with 1974 , but the charge that really hurt was that the Government had been caught unawares ( which we had ) and was not in charge ( which we were not ) . |
| 21 | He justified the ‘ legal regulation of the problem ’ as the only way of heading off the likelihood of spontaneous ‘ defensive actions of the enraged population ’ , and claimed the German government had been compelled ‘ by the idea of being able , through a once and for all secular solution , of perhaps creating a basis on which the German people might possibly be able to find a tolerable relationship with the Jewish people ’ . |
| 22 | But if the French government had been inefficient in Paris it had certainly been busy in New Zealand . |
| 23 | The decision came last month after the government had been considering bids from the remaining two consortia interested in BTG . |
| 24 | On 29th January , 1855 , Aberdeen 's Government had been heavily defeated in the House of Commons on a censure motion criticizing its conduct of the Crimean War , but it was not until 6th February that Queen Victoria brought herself to appoint the seventy-one-year-old Palmerston as Aberdeen 's successor , although his prestige and popularity had made him the inevitable choice as Prime Minister . |
| 25 | The stadium chosen for the game was literally the killing fields , a place where supporters of deposed Allende government had been tortured and assassinated . |
| 26 | While John Paul Jones had been captivating the ladies of Paris the French government had been preparing for the most serious attack on England since the Dutch incursion into the Medway . |
| 27 | The Monis government had been guilty of foolish panic , the Marne growers of mob violence . |
| 28 | Local government had been a much under-estimated sector since 1945 . |
| 29 | Before 1945 , however , local government had been a crucially contested political arena and major initiatives had taken place in relation to social policies , often in opposition to the government of the day . |
| 30 | The British government had been forced to undertake a massive air and sea movement of troops . |