Example sentences of "government [vb past] [conj] it was " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | In 1979 the government announced that it was determined , unlike the previous Labour administration , to control and reduce public expenditure . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Following the Commission 's order of June 28 , 1990 , that the £42,900,000 in " sweeteners " paid to British Aerospace at the time of its purchase of the Rover motor group should be repaid , the UK government announced that it was suing British Aerospace for the return of the money , and Rover for another £1,500,000 [ see pp. 37582-83 ] . |
| 8 | On Nov. 25 the new coalition government announced that it was to close the prison in the north-western town of Eskisehir where human rights groups had alleged that torture of political prisoners took place . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | On Dec. 3 the South African government announced that it was withdrawing its diplomatic representatives from Angola . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . ’ |
| 15 | Following a meeting of United States , United Kingdom and Hong Kong government officials in Washington on June 6 , the US government stated that it was to drop its opposition to negotiations between the UK and Vietnamese governments for the " involuntary repatriation " of Vietnamese boat people not considered to be genuine refugees , and to the possible establishment of an internationally managed centre in Vietnam to hold them on their return . |
| 16 | Yesterday , the Hong Kong Government confirmed that it was spending about $1,000 per head for those deported . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | In a statement on 14 May 1980 the DRA Government asserted that it was necessary ‘ in the process of a political settlement [ around Afghanistan ] to take into account the military-political activity in the region of the Indian Ocean and the Persian Gulf on the part of states not belonging to this region ’ . |
| 27 | The Russian Government denied that it was supporting the ‘ Kursk clique ’ but , for Ukrainian opinion , it must have seemed inconceivable that this were true . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The government said that it was reorganizing and restoring morale in national anti-drug institutions . |