Example sentences of "the government [vb past] [conj] it " 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 | At the same time the government reiterated that it would not tolerate " criminal acts " . |
| 3 | The government announced that it will replace the poll tax with a council tax . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In 1979 the government announced that it was determined , unlike the previous Labour administration , to control and reduce public expenditure . |
| 6 | In November 1989 the government announced that it wanted gradually to stop all exports of logs , ostensibly to help domestic enterprises , and it was announced on March 9 , 1990 , that the government would impose levies and quotas on some sawn timber and veneer exports , starting on June 1 . |
| 7 | On March 14 , 1990 , the government announced that it would proceed with a controversial proposal first mooted in 1984 for an elected executive presidency [ ibid . ] . |
| 8 | On June 6 the government announced that it wanted to join the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe ( CSCE ) and that it would sign the 1975 Helsinki Final Act . |
| 9 | On Nov. 15 the government announced that it would implement the report 's recommendations . |
| 10 | On Feb. 20 the government announced that it had postponed the presentation of the 1991-92 budget , due to be placed before the Lok Sabha on Feb. 28 . |
| 11 | On Aug. 1 the government announced that it had discovered a coup plot . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | On Aug. 5 the government announced that it had provided UN inspectors details of its " biological research for military purposes " , but stressed that " there is positively no biological activity for ammunition or weapons purposes " . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | In a series of subsequent , apparently conciliatory , gestures reported on Dec. 16 , Kurdish leaders agreed to appoint an inquiry into the alleged massacre of 60 Iraqi soldiers in October [ see p. 38548 ] after the government announced that it had lifted restrictions on the acquisition of property by Kurds in the oil-producing town of Kirkuk and issued a decree exempting Kurds from swearing allegiance to the ruling Ba'ath Party . |
| 17 | Mehta 's assets , as well as those of 30 other individuals and companies implicated in the case , were seized on June 8 ; on June 14 the government announced that it had frozen the assets of three senior bank officials of the State Bank of India . |
| 18 | On Nov. 12 the government announced that it had accepted the resignation of the three most senior commanders of the armed forces , while insisting that the reshuffle was part of routine annual promotions and that there was no question of disagreement with the military over the handling of the anti-guerrilla crackdown . |
| 19 | On Dec. 27 the government announced that it intended to end the sectarian dispute by acquiring the contested site and building both a mosque and a Hindu temple . |
| 20 | After MPs sat all night to defeat a private members ' bill to enable building of the Cardiff Barrage , the government announced that it would introduce its own bill to ensure that the measure passed into law . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Following announcement of the settlement , the government admitted that it had blundered in its handling of the affair , and on Oct. 30 Antall went so far as to suggest to parliament that he should resign ( no formal resignation offer was made , however ) . |
| 25 | The government insisted that it held no political prisoners . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The government said that it was reorganizing and restoring morale in national anti-drug institutions . |
| 28 | The government said that it had agreed to allow the phased release of around 1,300 political prisoners after Sept. 1 , and the return to South Africa of around 22,000 anti-government exiles after Oct. 1 . |
| 29 | The government said that it would consider lifting the state of emergency still in force in Natal , and that it would give immediate consideration to repealing the Internal Security Act . |
| 30 | The government said that it would appeal against the decision which it called a " wilful violation of the law " . |