Example sentences of "[adj] government [vb past] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the collapse of the communist regime in late 1989 , the new East German government announced that it would allow US , Israeli and other researchers access to state archives dealing with the Second World War and in particular with the extermination of Jews and other war crimes . |
| 2 | On Nov. 18 the German government said that it was recalling its ambassador as a protest at the " increasing brutality " aimed at the opposition movement . |
| 3 | Air France , which had agreed in mid-1990 to merge with its main French international rival UTA and the domestic airline Air Inter , faced a new challenge on March 3 , when the French government announced that it would redistribute 16 of the airline 's routes to its competitors , in an effort to reduce the airline 's 97 per cent share of the domestic aviation market . |
| 4 | The French government announced that it would take the strongest measures to ensure that Aoun met the conditions attached to his asylum , which included refraining from making public statements on political issues . |
| 5 | The Iraqi government announced that it would respond to " this aggression … in the appropriate manner at the appropriate time " . |
| 6 | By the mid 1880s the Japanese government felt that it could reopen negotiations concerning revision of the unequal treaties . |
| 7 | It was threatened again ( though Edward VIII made it plain that he would only comply if the Liberal government demonstrated that it had a popular mandate for abolition ) in 1909 . |
| 8 | On June 18 the military-led government announced that it had pre-empted a coup attempt led by the Minister of Public Works and Transport , Col. Abbas Koty . |
| 9 | Similarly , those who formed the National Government believed that it was National in the sense that its objective — balancing the budget — was shared by all parties . |
| 10 | The Lithuanian government said that it believed the group to be a " protective cloak for OMON or more likely the KGB " . |
| 11 | Although a decision on the application was not expected until after the completion of the single internal market in December 1992 , the Maltese government announced that it was preparing to become an EC member within the next five years . |
| 12 | Finally , when many had given up hope and the liner was nearing Europe , the Belgian government announced that it would admit 200 of the passengers . |
| 13 | When this exemption ended in July China became the sole importer , and in September 1990 the Chinese government announced that it would join the ban from January 1991 . |
| 14 | During February the Libyan government said that it would supply food , medicines and blankets to Iraq [ see also above ] and blood donation programmes for Iraq were oversubscribed in Morocco and Tunisia . |
| 15 | The Libyan government announced that it would take reciprocal action against any countries expelling Libyan diplomats . |
| 16 | Meanwhile , the Israeli government indicated that it was prepared to discuss the demand for Yassin 's release if it was given assurances that Toledano was alive . |
| 17 | The Israeli government maintained that it had not encouraged Soviet Jews to settle in the occupied territories . |
| 18 | However , the Israeli government maintained that it would only release Shia " prisoners " held in Israel or in its self-declared " security zone " in southern Lebanon in return for seven Israeli servicemen listed as missing in action ( MIA ) in Lebanon . |
| 19 | On July 29 the South Korean government revealed that it had been invited by the North to attend talks in China on a development project in the Tumen River region , on the Sino-North Korean border . |
| 20 | On Nov. 25 the North Korean government declared that it would sign an agreement permitting international inspection of its nuclear facilities once the US had began withdrawing its nuclear weapons . |
| 21 | The Irish government reaffirmed that it was seeking a European Community investigation into the British Government 's part in the negotiations with Digital to save the Ayr plant . |
| 22 | On May 14 the Chilean government announced that it was willing to reach an agreement with the US government to compensate the families of the victims killed or injured in the car bombing which was widely acknowledged to have been masterminded by agents of Pinochet 's DINA secret police . |
| 23 | However , the Czech government contended that it could not afford to stop selling arms until substitute industries were in place . |
| 24 | In the final hours , as it became clear that Manitoba would not have time to approve the Accord , the federal government announced that it would ask the Supreme Court for an extension of the ratification deadline . |
| 25 | A survey conducted in 1977 by the US federal government concluded that it costs as much to change from one computer to another as to buy the machine itself . |
| 26 | Following the collapse of the talks , the federal government suggested that it would draw up a package of constitutional reforms to be presented to Quebec and the other provinces . |
| 27 | On Dec. 3 the South African government announced that it was withdrawing its diplomatic representatives from Angola . |
| 28 | The Russian Government denied that it was supporting the ‘ Kursk clique ’ but , for Ukrainian opinion , it must have seemed inconceivable that this were true . |
| 29 | Although no specific timescale was announced for the duration of the suspension of co-operation , the Mexican government suggested that it would begin an immediate review of the 1978 extradition treaty with a view to modifying it in such a way as to prohibit further abductions . |