Example sentences of "government [vb pp] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the highest ranking officers of the old FDP under arrest or in hiding and about 150 other senior officers dismissed from their posts , the government placed a two-year limitation on the new commander 's term of office , ordered retirement after 25 years ' service and made regional commanders subject to civilian authority . |
| 2 | After independence in 1980 , Zimbabwe 's government placed a new priority on the three quarters of a million black farmers who had hitherto been neglected . |
| 3 | Another significant report appeared in 1961 , when the British government appointed a working party to determine the basic requirements for an efficient public library service , with particular reference to authorities of under 40,000 population . |
| 4 | The Heath Government appointed a Select Committee on the Corporation Tax and the subsequent Labour Government appointed one on a wealth tax , but both refused a permanent subcommittee on taxation so that there is still no mechanism by which the House of Commons can know about or participate in investigations of taxation problems or possible developments in policy . |
| 5 | The Dutch government appointed a fact-finding Scientific Commission in October 1883 , and they published a preliminary report some six months later . |
| 6 | In 1972 the Heath Government promoted a major Local Government Act designed to strengthen local councils , partly by weeding out the smaller and weaker local units and partly by helping the whole system to become more efficient . |
| 7 | Reductions in public expenditure are seen as essential for achieving each of these financial targets ( indeed , by the end of the 1980s , the government achieved a short-lived switch from PSBR to PSDR , i.e. public sector debt repayment ) . |
| 8 | Back in nineteen eighty eight the government faced a massive crash cash crisis in N H S funding , and er many people within the trade union movement took part in a massive rally in London to call on the government to review its policy towards the , the Health Service . |
| 9 | The actual case erm was erm where the federal government established a national bank which had an office in , in Maryland and Mr McCullock was the cashier of the , of the national bank er and the State of Maryland er thought that a national bank was an unfair form of competition with the local state banks in Maryland and imposed a tax on er on the national bank . |