Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] forward [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 These recommendations were not accepted in total , and alternative proposals were put forward in a series of White papers that involved a more complex change .
2 From the summer of 1869 onwards the process was carried forward by a combination of the Emperor 's will and by its own momentum .
3 The base SVR4.0 kernel was taken forward into a multi-processing release which supports up to 16 processors , SVR4 MP .
4 There is , to put it crudely , a firm intuition that the self we can identify with our immediate consciousness is a unity , in that we would not count as being that self any part or module of ourselves which was put forward as a candidate for being a conscious entity .
5 A similar proposition was put forward in a petition from the prelates , barons , knights and other Gascon nobles to Edward III that their ancient liberties , fors and customs stipulated that all issues of inheritance and other cases concerning prelates and nobles were to be heard by the king-duke or his seneschal .
6 The plan was put forward in a letter to Cardinal Amleto Cicognani , Secretary of State , dated 18 October 1962 , when the Council was barely a week old ( L'Osservatore Romano , 26 January 1984 , or Hebblethwaite , 1984 pp. 442–4 ) .
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