Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [vb past] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For a recent example , see Capricorn Inks Pty Ltd v Lawter International ( Australasia ) Pty Ltd [ 1989 ] 1 Qd R 8 , where a dispute about damages was referred to accountants by an agreement entered into after the parties ' dispute about liability had been settled by some other method ; there had been no prior agreement in the original contract to refer to an expert . |
| 2 | Pressures for change had been building up within the legislature for some time and these were to be given added impetus by the events surrounding the resignation of President Nixon . |
| 3 | Also rejecting the contention that no case for change had been made , he declared : ‘ Party politics is not on the agenda of reform . |
| 4 | The political groundwork for change had been laid by the " realistic rents " policy applied to the public sector by the Housing Subsidies Act 1956 . |
| 5 | The term he had spent at school trying to understand the first thing about physics had been wasted . |
| 6 | The Committee agreed to consider a larger amount when all the applications for funding had been presented . |
| 7 | The result was the abolition in February 1844 of the Secret Office which for generations had been intercepting letters of possible interest to the government . |
| 8 | It would certainly be improper for the governors to go into the medical or educational case history on which the call for provision had been based . |
| 9 | The main thing was that my intuitions about Alison had been confirmed . |
| 10 | The example given was of a tenant against whom an order for eviction had been made securing further time in residence by appealing . |
| 11 | An RUC spokesman confirmed that a police operation was carried out by C13 in the Shankill area after a member of the public alleged that demands for money had been made . |
| 12 | An initiation for prisoners had been established where for the first week officers were encouraged to violently beat and humiliate the new prisoner in nauseous ways . |
| 13 | There was some confusion , however , as to whether any formal requests for aid had been received . |
| 14 | Perhaps even some of his own words about Ceauşescu had been translated into the languages spoken in Romania for the edification of Ceauşescu 's subjects . |
| 15 | Mr Kinnock said his forecast of a 20-seat majority for Labour had been confirmed ‘ on the doorsteps ’ . |
| 16 | In Tirgu Mures , the HDUR candidate for mayor had been deemed ineligible to stand by a local court ; the party then supported an independent candidate , who won the election but then resigned after revelations that his nomination papers were irregular . |
| 17 | The change in the exchange rate would continue automatically until the price difference for cars had been eliminated . |
| 18 | South West Water said 477 claims worth £123,644 had been settled , with 318 more still outstanding . |
| 19 | Symptoms developed four weeks after treatment for eczema had been started by the same hakim who had treated the first patient . |
| 20 | On 18 August it met with the Health Authority 's officials and asked them to conduct a public health survey which it would pay for , mainly to reassure the public that , although the EC limits for aluminium had been exceeded over 500 times , and those for sulphate , copper , zinc and lead had also been broken , there was no long-term harm . |
| 21 | Corporal Paul Moreton , 28 , of Nuneaton , and Trooper Denis Brownhill , 20 , of Birmingham were named after relatives had been located . |
| 22 | After supper had been cleared Tom put a piece of paper and a pencil in front of him . |
| 23 | Soon after Sandys had been appointed , Mountbatten 's immediate predecessor as First Sea Lord , Sir Roderic McGrigor , had written to warn him about Sandys ’ views . |
| 24 | After £2,067 had been handed over to the District , branches had been left with a net income of £1,492 , just one pound less than the £1,493 spent on publicity , room rents and other local organisation and administration . |
| 25 | The liberating message of Luther 's theology was that salvation could be obtained only by faith , not by works — faith in a God whose love for humanity had been demonstrated in the person of Christ . |
| 26 | Earlier the 14 claims for compensation had been rejected when a US federal judge ruled that US courts had no jurisdiction in the case since the island became self-governing in October 1986 under the Compact of Free Association [ see pp. 35002-03 ] . |
| 27 | Bahrain and Qatar were both members of the Gulf Co-operation Council ( GCC ) , and reports emerged on July 29 that a series of GCC ministerial meetings scheduled for July had been postponed due to " rising tension " between the two countries . |
| 28 | For many months virtually everywhere in the Soviet Union stocks in state shops of even basic foodstuffs such as bread had been growing increasingly erratic , although some of the blame for this lay in the withholding of deliveries to the state supply network by farms and local authorities , in anticipation of prices rising or to meet local needs [ for indications of breakdown in the distribution system in May see p. 37538 ] . |
| 29 | A cheque for £400 had been received from the Radcliffe Trustees , Mr Park had collected £389 of the £521 from ratepayers , but on 18 December 1896 , it was reported that a further debit of £21 6s 6d had been received from the Locomotive Department , increasing the total to £2,935 10s 7d , and none of the ratepayers who owed the uncollected £132 were property owners , so there was little or no hope of collecting it ; that was written off . |
| 30 | Thus when there was demand for training youth in drama the holder of the purse , the government , turned for advice not to educationalists , not to speech and drama experts ( although there was some overlap here ) , but to a small group of charismatic figures who for decades had been promoting community drama of one sort or another , promoting it by giving advice , by running courses , by setting up drama libraries of play-texts , by making links with professional theatre , by popularising competitive festivals . |