Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [vb past] be " 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 | The political groundwork for change had been laid by the " realistic rents " policy applied to the public sector by the Housing Subsidies Act 1956 . |
| 4 | Also rejecting the contention that no case for change had been made , he declared : ‘ Party politics is not on the agenda of reform . |
| 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 | Even the most powerful of the Duke 's vassals , the Counts of Angoulême , who for generations had been accustomed to act as though they were independent princes , had twice conceded defeat , in 1176 and 1179 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The Bill in the course of its transit through Parliament had been radically altered so that the eventual enactment bore little resemblance to the Bill which was originally drafted . |
| 11 | The main thing was that my intuitions about Alison had been confirmed . |
| 12 | The example given was of a tenant against whom an order for eviction had been made securing further time in residence by appealing . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | At this stage it would have been surprising if the theoretical basis for action had been anything other than weak : there was scant Marxist literature in Mexico available in Spanish . |
| 16 | There was some confusion , however , as to whether any formal requests for aid had been received . |
| 17 | He said the plans for pedestrianisation had been badly thought out and should be scrapped before what he described as ‘ inevitable chaos ’ began . |
| 18 | A much smoother implementation of this system would have been possible if the team had been involved much earlier and/or more forward planning for computerisation had been possible . |
| 19 | In that moment , she almost broke down and told him she loved him desperately , for she could see , finally , that all her pretences in Thailand of his capacity for emotion had been just that : pretences . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The expanding Russian empire was showing an increasing interest in Northeast Asia , and China was likely to challenge any attempt by Japan to intervene in the affairs of a country which for centuries had been her foremost tributary . |
| 22 | Poland was strategically placed between Russia and Germany , and for centuries had been a bone of contention between them . |
| 23 | LIBF director Brian Bradford said this week that demand for stands had been considerable and the fair was already close to being a sell-out . |
| 24 | Meanwhile , he enters 1991 without an economic plan or budget ( so everyone is having to improvise with last year 's targets ) , and without a prime minister to blame for mismanagement ( Nikolai Ryzhkov , who for months had been under pressure to resign and was about to be sidelined anyway , had a heart attack on December 25th ) . |
| 25 | Mr Kinnock said his forecast of a 20-seat majority for Labour had been confirmed ‘ on the doorsteps ’ . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The change in the exchange rate would continue automatically until the price difference for cars had been eliminated . |
| 28 | South West Water said 477 claims worth £123,644 had been settled , with 318 more still outstanding . |
| 29 | Symptoms developed four weeks after treatment for eczema had been started by the same hakim who had treated the first patient . |
| 30 | 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 . |