Example sentences of "[conj] [v-ing] [noun] was [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Questioned by MORI , an opinion-polling company commissioned by Egon Zehnder , an executive-search firm , only 13% of a 100-strong sample of chief executives from Britain 's 500 biggest firms suggested that representing shareholders was among the top five contributions that outside directors could make to good corporate governance . |
| 2 | It also amends the Official Secrets Act to allow someone who had been prosecuted to argue that releasing information was in the public interest . |
| 3 | Noted as relevant to the Clapham accident were the factors that : Working practices were permitted to slip to dangerous standards and quality of supervision was permitted to slip to an equivalent degree ; quality of testing did not meet BR standards ; no proper system of training of installation and testing staff was in use , and there was no vetting of weekend staff to prevent excessive overtime ; and there was failure to communicate both up and down lines of management . |
| 4 | General Secretaries would then be obliged to satisfy the membership and could be put in a classic squeeze when they were approached at top level , even if supporting NoS was against their better judgement . |
| 5 | She put the telephone down on the floor and knelt beside it , facing Shildon and saying Tavett was in trouble and she had to make some calls . |
| 6 | To the core cost , the solicitor 's waiting and travelling time was to be added , but not Counsel 's . |
| 7 | She is convinced ultimately , however , that coming to Bristol and studying English was of great benefit to her . |
| 8 | Up to a point the tsarist police could control the activities of intellectuals within the confines of the empire , but silencing Herzen was beyond their powers . |
| 9 | Concentrating almost exclusively on Aids as a subject matter is self-evident to her ; as obvious , it seems , as fighting fascism was to Orwell in the 1930s . |