Example sentences of "[vb pp] was [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , serious differences continued to present obstacles to an agreement : ( i ) the Soviet Union insisted that not all combat aircraft be included in the treaty , although it made an important concession on this point in September ( see p. 36909 ) ; ( ii ) of the five categories of weapons to be included in a treaty-aircraft , helicopters , tanks , armoured vehicles and artillery ( with troops being the sixth element in an agreement ) -consensus on the definition of the weapons system and the items in that category to be included was only reached on artillery ( see below ) ; ( iii ) the Warsaw Pact insisted on an undertaking by NATO to conduct separate negotiations on the reduction of naval forces ( see Malta summit disagreement on naval forces p. 37111 ) ; and ( iv ) the Warsaw Pact demanded that no modernization of short-range missiles by NATO take place ( see also p. 37227 ) . |
| 2 | In France the factionalism from which the country suffered was largely inspired by the nobility , so that command of the army , as the tragedy experienced at Agincourt in 1415 demonstrated , was chiefly in the hands of noble leaders who gave the army a character as noble as it had had in the 1330s . |
| 3 | The rest of the report , which was the role of section conferences and industrial conferences , which have been the subject of fairly detailed consultations throughout regions over the previous two years and appeared to be widely accepted was hardly debated at all . |
| 4 | Having your cosy liaison disrupted was never going to go down easily , but think on the bright side — at least I 'm here to keep you company . |
| 5 | The comparison drawn between the company and the state in no way detracts from the contractual conception of the company , which we have seen was originally adopted to legitimate the vesting of broad discretion to manage the company in the hands of the directors . |
| 6 | And what impact it had made was soon dissipated when it was realized that the ‘ total ’ war was still only partial after all , and that the well-to-do and high-and-mighty were still able to avoid the burdens which fell on ordinary people . |
| 7 | However the League conference at which the decision was made was seriously divided . |
| 8 | The point that my hon. Friend has made was graphically illustrated by the hon. Member for Livingston ( Mr. Cook ) , who is reported as having said that if Labour were to introduce its devolution plans he could not act as Secretary of State for Health for England and Wales . |
| 9 | Kursell v. Timber Operators ( 1927 C.A ) concerned the sale of timber which at the time the contract was made was still growing in a Latvian forest . |
| 10 | The long hair she 'd admired was still drawn back in a pony-tail . |
| 11 | LEGISLATION enabling the Church of England General Synod to provide by canon for women to be ordained was overwhelmingly approved yesterday . |
| 12 | Whatever leisure the holidays had promised was now ended . |
| 13 | This I am told was publicly declared at Redruth market last Friday . |
| 14 | Crude analysis — The crude percentage of patients whose ulcers had relapsed was also calculated to allow a comparison with some previously published trials , although it sould be stressed that this method underestimates the true relapse time . |
| 15 | The sequence in which these test solutions were used was randomly varied . |
| 16 | Accommodation officer David Warman said a local advertising campaign produced a good response , but much of the accommodation offered was already rented to students . |
| 17 | In the first place , the pension being offered was roughly halved in value . |
| 18 | The agreement finally reached was over-hastily drafted , and contained many inconsistencies and much imprecision . |
| 19 | Though the Boston Compact on which other Compacts have been based was only signed formally in 1982 , it represents the culmination of a relationship between Boston schools and local industry that has been developing since the early 1970s . |
| 20 | The Montreal into which Leonard was born was deeply segmented , as is Canada itself in its famous ‘ two solitudes ’ , the legacy of its Franco-British history ; a difficult dimension for those outside its rivalries to understand . |
| 21 | I can actually recall a press release which came to me about a a principal tourism officer who had just been appointed to be the head , you know the president for the year of his professional body , and in his own town a press release was put out in which his name was incorrectly spelt , and the conference at which he was about to be invested was actually taking , and I blush to say that it was in Brighton , I can only tell you when I got that press release I did what I frequently do , which is outline in highlighter the mistakes on the press release , put it back into the envelope and send it back to the relevant officer . |
| 22 | DIEGO MARADONA 's claim that the World Cup draw was rigged was yesterday dismissed as ‘ stupid ’ by Fifa . |
| 23 | ‘ If the money never recovered was properly invested , it could multiply and multiply , ’ says former senior policeman Brian Worth who led the hunt for the gang . |
| 24 | This transcending of the differences of individual gifts in a corporate wholeness in which the love of God could be manifest and known was constantly enacted in the ritual of the Mass at the centre of parish worship . |
| 25 | The security she had known was suddenly gone , her small world shattered . |
| 26 | S 72(4) could be read as including the limitation , ‘ in a case in which the amount distributed was small compared with the value of the shares in respect of which it was distributed ’ , and none of its express words would thereby be distorted . |
| 27 | Whatever momentary spasm of pleasure he had experienced was now forgotten . |
| 28 | The wealth the Crusades themselves brought was soon eclipsed by the trade wealth that followed in the wake of the construction of the Crusader ships . |
| 29 | How this increase was derived was probably revealed in the other responses . |
| 30 | The ‘ rough mixture ’ from which the policy derived was neither advocated nor forecast by the Robbins Committee , nor an inevitable outcome of the creation of the CNAA . |