Example sentences of "[vb past] been approve [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As expected , Houphouët-Boigny 's candidacy had been approved without debate in the course of the ninth PDCI congress , held in early October . |
| 2 | By 1986 UDGs worth £78 million had been approved for 177 projects , with a public-to-private-sector ratio of 1:4.5 . |
| 3 | On Nov. 24 , 1989 , legislation had been approved for the equal legal protection of public and private property and for the abolition of social adjustment centres . |
| 4 | The International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) announced on Jan. 6 that financing had been approved for Pakistan , to be made available immediately , totalling SDR231,700,000 ( about US$325,000,000 ) . |
| 5 | Mr Coetsee said a warrant would also be issued for the arrest of Captain Dirk Coetzee , the former head of a police murder squad who confirmed and amplified Nofomela 's disclosures , claiming that the killings had been approved at the highest level . |
| 6 | The legislation had been approved at a single sitting of the NLA on April 15 . |
| 7 | The termination of the Temporary Provisions and the constitutional reforms had been approved on April 22 at a special session of the National Assembly , the sole branch of government with the power to amend the Constitution . |
| 8 | Fujimori stated , however , that the loan had been approved on July 29-30 and would be repayable over four years with one year 's grace . |
| 9 | The move , announced jointly by Ramos and the governor of the Central Bank , Jose Cuisia , had been approved on Aug. 7 . |
| 10 | The June 26 measure had been approved despite an attempt by ethnic Albanian deputies in Serbia to have them discussed by the Kosovo Assembly . |
| 11 | Official figures were that 2,876 had been approved as candidates by April 2 , including 52 women . |
| 12 | These provisions were strengthened in the 1982 Act which provided that no closed shop should be enforceable unless it had been approved by a clear majority of employees voting in a secret ballot . |
| 13 | Hall defended the action he had taken and proposed that ‘ during the recess , to look at the designs which had been approved by the judges , and endeavour to ascertain the expense of carrying them out ; but nothing further would be done until the House was informed on that point ’ . |
| 14 | At last December 's High Court hearing , Mr Maxwell , 36 , was held to have breached his duty as a director of BIM by signing forms for the transfer of five blocks of shares , worth about £580,000 , to Credit Suisse without obtaining an assurance the transfers had been approved by the BIM board . |
| 15 | Writing to the archbishop of York after the Council , he told him he could send only the ‘ headings ’ ( the Capitula ) of the decrees because he did not wish to circulate the fuller texts until they had been approved by those who were present . |
| 16 | In 1595 , she even refused to allow the publication of the predestinarian Lambeth Articles , although they had been approved by her favoured archbishop , John Whitgift . |
| 17 | The rhythm method had been approved by Catholic clergymen on the Birth-rate Commission as early as 1913 and in the 1930 Encyclical Casti Connubii . |
| 18 | The form of the proposed transfer had been approved by the building society . |
| 19 | The judge directed that the transfer was not to take place unless foster parents provisionally identified for W. had been approved by the local authority as foster carers . |
| 20 | They confirmed that the army 's request had been approved by the head of department but no , he was n't available to explain . |
| 21 | Mr Rees confirmed to the CCAUK conference that this form had been approved by trade associations representing various types of consumer creditor . |
| 22 | He explained that it had been approved by Bernard , which of course , by implying criticism of her husband , compounded his crime . |
| 23 | None of these changes were deliberate , but none had been approved by MCC . |
| 24 | He was lied to , conned into believing that the Bad Schwarzendorn operation had been approved by the Army . |
| 25 | The law on the currency reform had been approved by parliament the following day , while on Dec. 26 Yugoslavia 's first stock exchange had been set up in Ljubljana . |
| 26 | The amendment had been approved by the Jatiya Sangsad in June 1988 . |
| 27 | The ailing peace process had been revived by an Australian plan for large-scale UN involvement in Cambodia , which had been approved by the five permanent members of the UN Security Council in mid-January [ see pp. 37186-87 ] , who met again in New York to discuss this plan on Feb. 12-13 . |
| 28 | Altogether 117 political parties ( out of 207 registered parties ) had been approved by the SLORC to contest the elections , including the NLD , LDP and the National Unity Party — the sole legal political party until September 1988 . |
| 29 | The passion generated by the abortion issue , however , meant that such measures were bitterly opposed and few had been approved by the beginning of March 1990 . |
| 30 | Hungary 's emergency economic plan had been approved by the Orsággyülés in December 1989 [ see p. 37130 ] , since which time three small devaluations of the forint had reduced its exchange value by a total of 5 per cent . |