Example sentences of "government to [noun] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | The recent flood of cheery indicators is so good that it almost certainly condemns the beaming government to setbacks over the coming months , and to talk of a double-dip recession . |
| 2 | The McGimpsey brothers hit the headlines when they took the Irish government to court over the Republic 's constitutional claim to Northern Ireland . |
| 3 | Texaco , the giant American oil company , is taking the Dutch government to court over its decision to build a conventional coal-fired power plant near to Rotterdam . |
| 4 | It is the first to take a European government to court over an ecological issue . |
| 5 | Friends of the Earth is to take the government to court over its alleged failure to ensure that pesticide levels in drinking water meet legal requirements across much of the Thames Basin area . |
| 6 | FoE is taking the government to court over the delays in the clean-up programme . |
| 7 | The EC Environment Commissioner , Ioannis Paleokrassas , has threatened to take the UK government to court over its alleged failure to conduct a proper environmental impact assessment over the planned motorway through Oxleas Wood in south-east London . |