Example sentences of "government [unc] [noun sg] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.

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1 The reforms were designed to strengthen the government 's position before it presented its economic programme to the International Monetary Fund later in the month .
2 Responding to the disclosures , the ANC said that the government 's admission that it had funded Inkatha to pursue anti-ANC activities threatened the peace process .
3 The ANC also firmly rejected the government 's insistence that it disband its armed wing , Umkhonto we Sizwe ( MK ) , before a full transitional government was in place .
4 Ruling that the UK had breached international agreements , the judges dismissed the British government 's contention that it had not had enough time to meet standards set in 1975 .
5 They claimed that the ruling nullified the government 's argument that it had no liability for the death of the Palestinian because it was an act of war , and that it effectively restored the government 's response to the intifada to the status of a police operation .
6 Control of spending was crucial to the government 's strategy because it wanted to cut governmental borrowing and taxes .
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