Example sentences of "government [vb past] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government announced that it will replace the poll tax with a council tax . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Despite the assault , the US government announced that it would maintain normal diplomatic relations with the new Iranian regime . |
| 5 | In 1979 the government announced that it was determined , unlike the previous Labour administration , to control and reduce public expenditure . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . ] . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | On Nov. 15 the government announced that it would implement the report 's recommendations . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | On Aug. 1 the government announced that it had discovered a coup plot . |
| 15 | On Nov. 24 , the UK government announced that it would provide a second year of training for the new Namibian Defence Force , following a visit to the UK in April by Foreign Minister Gurirab , and a visit to Windhoek by UK Defence Secretary Tom King in July . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 " . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 ] . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The Libyan government announced that it would take reciprocal action against any countries expelling Libyan diplomats . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |