Example sentences of "[art] government [vb past] [conj] it [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For although purporting to provide a degree of public participation in the making of a major policy decision , detailed examination of the institutional machinery provided by the government revealed that it was far from being a neutral forum in which the choice of options remained open until determined by the Inquiry . |
| 2 | In April 1954 , the government announced that it was proposing to appoint a Departmental Committee to examine and report on the law on homosexual offences and the ‘ parallel ’ problem of the law relating to prostitution . |
| 3 | In 1979 the government announced that it was determined , unlike the previous Labour administration , to control and reduce public expenditure . |
| 4 | In May 1991 the government announced that it was to rejoin the Union of Banana Exporting Countries ( UPEB ) which it had left four years before . |
| 5 | On Dec. 20 the government announced that it was expelling two Palestinian brothers suspected of links with Sabri Khalil al Banna ( " Abu Nidal " ) , the leader of the Fatah Revolutionary Council . |
| 6 | A Chinese delegation , headed by Deputy Foreign Minister Xu Dunxin , visited Brunei on April 10-13 , 1991 , after which the government announced that it was considering the matter of establishing diplomatic relations with China and wished to have economic and cultural exchanges . |
| 7 | As the hon. Gentleman knows , following the passage of the Security Service Act 1989 , the Government judged that it was right to announce the appointment of a new director general of the Security Service and I am pleased that that has , rightly , been seen as a positive step . |
| 8 | Although the government indicated that it was prepared to negotiate with the rebel National Patriotic Front of Liberia , it said that it had not renounced the use of force . |
| 9 | Although a date for the elections was not set , the government indicated that it was anxious for voting to take place before the end of the year . |
| 10 | The government said that it was clear that Mr Athulathmudali was yet another victim of the Tigers , who for more than a decade have been fighting for a separate Tamil state on the island . |
| 11 | The government said that it was reorganizing and restoring morale in national anti-drug institutions . |
| 12 | Troops advanced from the garrison towns of Malakal and Juba , while the government said that it was still prepared to participate in any future peace talks with the rebels which Nigeria might succeed in mediating [ for October 1991 postponement of talks see p. 38519 ] . |
| 13 | The government said that it was concerned by press reports that the authorities in the Transkei " homeland " ( bantustan ) had concluded a military accord with APLA and provided training bases . |
| 14 | Lewis said that the Government thought that it was only necessary , at present , to provide suitable accommodation for the War Office and the Foreign Office , but preliminary steps could be taken towards acquiring the land , and Hall could obtain designs for laying out the whole area . |
| 15 | The government denied that it was pursuing an anti-peasant policy , but refused to give in to demands for guaranteed minimum prices , claiming that this would run counter to its basic principles of establishing a market-based economy . |
| 16 | On Oct. 19 , 1989 , the government confirmed that it was holding Gen. François Bozize and 11 other opposition figures who had fled to Benin after an abortive coup attempt in 1982 . |
| 17 | As the Algerian media reported extreme insecurity among the inhabitants of some southern towns , and some newspapers speculated about hidden French or Libyan involvement in the situation , the government claimed that it was unnecessary to send military reinforcements to the region . |
| 18 | Although the government suggested that it was prepared to offer some degree of autonomy to the island , the prospect of losing the tax revenue from the mine , together with the potential effect upon other provinces within the country 's ethnically diverse structure , suggested that the government would be unprepared to accept BRA 's stated aim of full independence . |
| 19 | In February 1991 , for example , the government stated that it was adopting measures to ‘ make available registers of detention … and promptly and objectively establish the fate of those whose ‘ disappearance ’ is claimed as certain . ’ |
| 20 | Against a background of the strategic concerns outlined above , the government decided that it was not prepared to take the risk of rejection by the market . |
| 21 | But at the time the government decided that it was perhaps the lesser of two evils , especially when all the anticipated dam-aging domestic and foreign implications of refusal were taken into account . |