Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [be] formed " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eight months later , in May 1989 , Mr Ethrington joined the management buyout team , which had been formed a year earlier . |
| 2 | The wartime machinery of industrial relations still survived — particularly the Whitley Councils which had been formed in order to bring employers and employees together in an attempt to resolve differences without industrial conflict . |
| 3 | During that summer , tenants ' associations which had been formed in Rossville Flats , Meenan Park , Shantallow , Rossville Street , Lecky Road and Foyle Hill set up a central council to coordinate their activities . |
| 4 | He was referring to the remainder of Layforce which had been formed into the Middle East Commando , the Foldboat Section ( SBS ) and the ‘ parachute personnel ’ . |
| 5 | In 1968 , the national breed absorbed the South and West Norwegian ( SVF ) , a red or dun dairy breed , usually polled but sometimes horned and with a colour range almost as extensive as that of the Jersey , which had been formed in 1947 by combining the polled red Lyngdal , the Vestland Red Polled and the Vestland fjord , a dun , red or black breed , usually horned , which had originated between 1866 and 1895 from the horned black Hørdaland and the polled grey Møre and Ramsdal . |
| 6 | It prowled across the lower slopes of the Pennine Hills which had been formed a few million years earlier and along the coast of the seas which covered what now are the lowlands on either side of the Pennines ( Diagram 4 ) . |
| 7 | This was a company , named after their Eton housemaster Bob Baird , which had been formed when they discovered that they were too young legally to book holidays themselves . |
| 8 | Most of the latter ( except Stopes 's five clinics ) affiliated with the Family Planning Association which had been formed from the National Birth Control Association in 1939 . |
| 9 | The only exception was the 2ème Régiment Étranger de Parachutistes which had been formed in 1948 . |
| 10 | His situation was not in this respect dissimilar from that of the leaders of the North of England Sailors and Seagoing Firemen 's Friendly Association , which had been formed at Sunderland in 1879 by John Beresford and was commonly known as the " Sunderland Union " . |
| 11 | Reared in the idealism of the Christian Socialists , Margaret Llewelyn Davies became convinced that the Rochdale Pioneers ' theory of co-operation provided an ideal basis for society , and joined the Marylebone branch of the Women 's Co-operative Guild , which had been formed in 1883 . |
| 12 | When this collapsed in 1878 , he got a post as a junior clerk with the Distillers Company Limited , which had been formed a year earlier by six of the largest Lowland patent distillers to rationalize production . |
| 13 | Isolated pockets of alluvium and fluvioglacial material were encountered in various small valleys along the route which had been formed as glacial melt-water channels . |
| 14 | Mugabe won 78 per cent of the vote in the presidential election against 16 per cent obtained by his opponent Edgar Tekere , leader of the opposition Zimbabwe United Movement ( ZUM ) which had been formed in April 1989 [ see pp. 36965-66 ] . |
| 15 | The national congress of the Democratic Party , which had been formed in February 1989 [ see p. 36453 ] , on Oct. 7 , 1989 , voted to retain its collective three-person leadership , comprising Zach de Beer , Wynand Malan and Denis Worrall . |
| 16 | On Nov. 24 three-quarters of the delegates at the 18th congress of the Unified Socialist Party ( Parti socialiste unifié — PSU ) voted to disband the party which had been formed in 1960 . |
| 17 | The following day British Satellite Broadcasting ( BSB — launched in April 1990 ) merged with its chief rival , Sky Television , which had been formed in February 1989 and was owned by the media magnate Rupert Murdoch , both companies having sustained substantial operating losses over the year . |
| 18 | The party , which had been formed in 1981 , had won only three seats in the 1987 general election but a rump led by David Owen had refused to merge with the Liberals in January 1988 [ see p. 36501 ] , and had performed poorly in the local elections in May 1991 . |
| 19 | It was also the first opportunity at national level for the electorate to deliver its verdict on the DLP , which had been formed by Roh in January 1990 through the merger of his minority ruling party with two of the three main opposition parties [ see pp. 37187-88 ] . |
| 20 | It was announced in mid-November that the United People 's Party ( UPP ) , the grouping formed by Hyundai conglomerate founder Chung Ju Yung , was to merge with the New Korea Party ( NKP ) which had been formed in October [ see p. 39142 ] by defectors from the political mainstream , most of whom had been DLP members who were opposed to the succession of Kim Young Sam . |
| 21 | In 1949 , the Soviet Union organized the Council for Mutual Economic Aid ( Comecon ) , paralleling the Organization for European Economic Cooperation , which had been formed in 1948 as a framework within which the United States could distribute aid to rebuild the warshattered West European economies . |
| 22 | ‘ Ginger ’ Neil was not impressed with what he saw , and described 261 as ‘ the most motley crowd of goons you ever saw in your life — ferry pilots who had been formed into a squadron . ’ |
| 23 | Those who had been formed by the politics of black nationalism , or roots radicalism , or by the various schools of classical Marxism all in different ways stressed the continuities with the past . |
| 24 | Hardly any of the studies of the crisis go on to consider why the National Government broke the specific pledges upon which it had been formed and went to the country as a government in an election which bore some considerable resemblance to the ‘ coupon election ’ of 1918 . |
| 25 | A new amenities committee had been formed within the parish council during the year , and chairman Ken Yeldham explained that it had been formed to deal with the things that fell outside the scope of the present committees . |
| 26 | Another surprise was that the helium-3 was not distributed uniformly throughout the metal , but appeared to be highly concentrated in small clusters as if it had been formed there . |
| 27 | By the end of the 1920's Miss Lintorn-Orman 's brand of Fascism had not caught on and the Bolshevik revolution in England , which it had been formed to combat , had ceased to be an event worth waiting for . |
| 28 | It had been formed from Buffon 's old Jardin du Roi ( the royal zoological and botanical garden ) by the revolutionary government , and had been turned into a major institution for promoting the study of all the non-physical sciences . |
| 29 | Viola 's voice had that organ note of the English landed aristocracy , though in her case it had been formed not in the hunting-fields , but on the lonely , sheep expanses of her native land . |
| 30 | It had been formed to act as a co-ordinating body for banned organizations , and had played a leading role in the 1984-86 uprisings in black townships . |