Example sentences of "issue had [been] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Justice Millett held that , by reason of the decision of the Chief Commons Commissioner on 17 March 1977 , the plaintiffs were estopped from asserting as against the defendant council ( other than in proceedings concerned with the registrability of certain grass road verges within the Royal Manor of Portland under the Commons Registration Act 1965 , in respect of which the plaintiffs accept that this issue had been finally determined ) that the road verges were not part of the highway . |
| 2 | In the Commons vote in June last year a majority of 123 was against any change , and MPs believed the issue had been settled for this Parliament . |
| 3 | 2.9 By transferring 1,000,000 new ordinary shares in Blue Arrow from NatWest Investment Bank to County NatWest Securities to account for a similar holding by Handelsbank NatWest and falsely representing that those shares were held by County atWest Securities Limited for the purposes of market making ; 2.10 By failing properly to account for the acquisition , distribution and disposal of 66,600,000 shares in Blue Arrow held by NatWest Investment Bank and County NatWest in the records required for accounting purposes by NatWest Investment Bank and County NatWest ; 2.11 By failing properly to account for the acquisition , distribution and disposal of 34,069,433 shares in Blue Arrow held by Phillips & Drew Securities in the records required for accounting purposes by Phillips & Drew Securities ; 2.12 By falsely representing that County NatWest had become interested in 9.5 per cent of the issued capital of Blue Arrow on December 17,1987 and that the board of Blue Arrow had been informed of that interest ; 2.13 By concealing the true position in relation to the rights issue from the Bank of England , the International Stock Exchange , National Westminster Bank and/ or the board of directors of Blue Arrow ; 2.14 By falsely representing that the rights issue had been honestly and successfully completed by reason of their general skill , competence and diligence . |
| 4 | As a sop to angry opposition MPs and international agencies , the Foreign Secretary , Mr Douglas Hurd , told the Commons that no more Vietnamese would follow the 51 deported during Monday night until the issue had been debated in the House on Tuesday . |
| 5 | Outside Cabinet Leon Brittan argued in a speech that the Government must have the right to look at new ideas , although I suspect that both Leon and Geoffrey Howe must have been appalled at the way the issue had been handled . |
| 6 | The next day , I countered with a speech arguing that as far as the health service was concerned the issue had been settled and that the Government 's policy was to continue to make the service as effective as possible . |
| 7 | After the war opinion was more fluid and open on political grounds the tariff issue had been dead for years and I felt it was one which would pull the party together , including the Lloyd George malcontents . |
| 8 | Within the German Social Democratic Party the issue had been in dispute for some time . |
| 9 | The Alliance was committed to economy in local government , and the rates issue had been an effective ideological weapon in the past . |
| 10 | The issue had been complicated by unclear statements from the DoH . |
| 11 | Once again , even if the main points at issue had been side-stepped , the two countries were at peace , and had agreed to be so for a whole generation . |
| 12 | The issue had been settled by force of arms . |
| 13 | Beset by mounting criticism at home , and abroad , over the way the issue had been handled , the Japanese government agreed to defer the fifth group of demands and in May 1915 delivered the remainder in the form of an ultimatum . |
| 14 | The issue had been a principal if intermittent source of internal dispute and disruption for the past twenty years . |
| 15 | Given the political feebleness of the Regency and the imprecise antiquarianism of the conservative programme , there could be no other result once the constituent issue had been raised . |
| 16 | If no preliminary issue had been ordered , the trial judge would have tried the whole action and decided the compromise issue , the cancellation issue and the misconduct issue . |
| 17 | Counsel then appearing for the petitioner does not seem to have appreciated that the cancellation issue had been heard in the course of the trial of the preliminary issue and finally decided by the Court of Appeal on 4 October 1991 . |
| 18 | We considered that he ought to have taken these points during the hearing itself and , in so far as they were of a technical procedural nature , he had waived his right to advance them because he was content to allow the full two-day hearing to take place without complaining at the outset that he had been prejudiced by short notice of the hearing or by any procedural irregularity in the way the preliminary issue had been brought before the court . |
| 19 | In terms of the way the issue had been considered up to this point there could have been no other answer . |
| 20 | As a matter of fact , the whole issue had been built round a concept which Nina had labelled Special Women . |
| 21 | The first count of the declaration stated that the plaintiff had commenced action against the defendant in the Court of Exchequer to recover two sums of £700 and £1,300 , respectively , issue had been joined and the hearing was to take place on December 7 , 1844 ; that the defendant , on December 6 , 1844 , promised the plaintiff that , if he ( plaintiff ) would forbear prosecuting the proceedings until December 14 , the defendant would on that day pay the money with interest and costs ; that the plaintiff , relying on this promise , forbore prosecuting the action until the day named but that the defendant did not pay the money or costs . |
| 22 | The mover behind the women 's rights issue had been Fred Halliday , another cross-over from the New Left Review . |
| 23 | Yet advertising for the next issue had been booked . |
| 24 | He concluded that the issue had been influenced by " political factors " , including the continued animosity towards Vietnam by the USA . |
| 25 | A debate on the issue had been prompted by strikes by teachers and students in higher education , calling for greater democracy and improved working conditions . |
| 26 | The textbook issue had been a persistent irritant in relations between Japan and its neighbours . |
| 27 | Pharaon , holder of 25 percent of CenTrust 's shares , allegedly arranged for $25,000,000 of the issue to be placed temporarily with BCCI to mislead regulators into believing the entire issue had been sold . |
| 28 | The health care issue had been of growing concern in the USA both because of its cost ( 12 per cent of GNP compared with around 8 per cent for most other industrialized countries ) , and its effect of binding employees to their employers through the fear of losing their health insurance , thereby making the job market less flexible and deterring people from starting new businesses . |
| 29 | The issue had been a key factor in the extraordinary victory of Democrat Harris Wofford in the November 1991 contest for the vacant Pennsylvanian seat in the Senate [ see p. 38566 ] . |
| 30 | However , the whole emotive issue had been complicated by the case of a 14-year-old rape victim , whom the Dublin High Court in February sought to debar from travelling to London for an abortion . |