Example sentences of "force had been " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were the result of catholic — nationalist success in establishing a separate state , so separate that the protestant tradition as a political force had been excised from the thinking of the entire catholic grouping in the South , from church to state to popular consciousness . |
| 2 | I pointed out that I had not been to the polytechnic , but had been to Durham University on a scholarship — only the second the force had been awarded . |
| 3 | It was denied that force had been used in the initial operation . |
| 4 | By 1987 the numbers were so huge that the ability of the West to take in all comers was strained No force had been used in last week 's operation , he insisted . |
| 5 | Once the task force had been committed , only the withdrawal of the Argentinian troops would justify them carrying out some gigantic U-turn in the middle of the South Atlantic . |
| 6 | If the Sudan Defence Force had been unsuccessful in capturing this oasis , they would be in grave difficulty , stuck in the desert without fuel , water or rations . |
| 7 | At Huddersfield , a strong reserve force had been a vital factor in the Championship run , and Chapman soon set about building a similar force at Arsenal . |
| 8 | Coming after five years of war , when for the first time there did seem to be a tiny light at the end of the tunnel , these new rockets were almost too much for our overstretched nerves , although the situation would no doubt have been very much worse if it had not been for the times when both the RAF and the American Air Force had been out bombing Peenemunde and the other rocket sites . |
| 9 | James got to Corunna , where the whole force had been supposed to rendezvous and pick up Ormonde , in time to see the last battered casualties arrive , grateful perhaps that , so soon after his own recent sufferings in the Mediterranean , he had been spared this further ordeal . |
| 10 | The Whigs had contemptuously dismissed the invaders as ‘ bare-arsed banditti ’ , an ill judged description , for many of their officers had served in the English army and the force had been organised in an orthodox fashion , into divisions and regiments , often based on individual clans . |
| 11 | Force had been not merely avoided , but transcended . |
| 12 | The Company 's contacts with its parent force had been slight , and transmissions from their 109 wireless set ( see Appendix 5 ) would not carry across the mountains and headlands to Koebang . |
| 13 | The Regent 's force had been all but annihilated . |
| 14 | Yet the image had addressed Jaq as if some outside force had been able to intervene in his holy trance through the agency of that Discordia card , hacking into the pack . |
| 15 | Over half of the Dwarf force had been slain and although Skarsnik had lost many good warriors they were losses he could easily afford . |
| 16 | It was two years since I had stood on this spot on the way from Tan Hill to Hawes ; then the force had been a sluggish trickle after a dry spring , now , two years later almost to the day , it was a respectable torrent . |
| 17 | It would be extremely unattractive to any group of workers or management to enter a serious bid if they had been told by the Scottish Office that the bid was so contemptible that it would not even qualify for assistance if it failed because another bid from within the same management or work force had been judged as superior . |
| 18 | The old Michigan law which preceded the 1974 reform placed an extremely heavy burden of proof upon the prosecution , which had to prove beyond reasonable doubt both that force had been used by the defendant and that the victim was unwilling . |
| 19 | It was felt that once evidence of force had been adduced , it should not be necessary for the prosecution to show in its evidence in chief that the victim had not consented . |
| 20 | Half the force had been at the match , of course , although that was hardly an excuse . |
| 21 | This had become her world , this boat with Fen , and now the energising force had been withdrawn , leaving her in a limbo of despair . |
| 22 | Only after the war was it revealed that reports concerning the role of the task force had been an element of allied disinformation as it had already been decided not to conduct an amphibious assault . |
| 23 | This decision brought to an end a hunger strike which several city councillors had been observing since the police force had been taken out of the city 's control . |
| 24 | Although some reports suggested that the need for a smaller force had been dictated by plans to reduce NATO forces by up to 30 per cent by the mid-1990s , a communiqué issued at the end of the meeting said that defence spending in real terms " should not be expected to reduce substantially in the near term " . |
| 25 | The formation of a Franco-German military force had been under discussion for several years , and a 4,000-strong brigade had been agreed in principle in November 1987 [ see p. 35665 ; 35913 ] and started operations in October 1990 [ see p. 38473 ] . |
| 26 | A joint Russian , Moldovan and Dnestr peacekeeping force had been deployed on July 29 to halt the fighting after an agreement signed by Russian President Boris Yeltsin and his Moldovan counterpart Mircea Snegur over the future status of the Dnestr region [ for July agreement see p. 39019 ] . |
| 27 | He phoned his provincial headquarters at Cesena , who called regional headquarters at Bologna , who checked with their opposite numbers in Florence before confirming that no member of the force had been reported missing on either side of the Apennines . |
| 28 | It was done in fact by a brilliant military er tactic er and indeed the Americans succeeded in throwing the North Koreans back over the Yalob the river Yalob So up to that point limited force had been used to achieve a political objective , the objective was to s s to erm contain communism wherever communism looked like spilling over into other countries , non-communist countries . |
| 29 | Though their controller of programmes in Scotland indicated , in an interview he gave The Scotsman earlier this year , that many of the aims and aspirations of the Scottish task force had been incorporated , in his view , in the final version of ‘ Extending Choice ’ , John Birt 's mission statement for the future of the BBC . |
| 30 | In the wake of the disturbances , union leaders alleged that one of the men arrested , the Scottish Militant leader and Glasgow councillor Tommy Sheridan , had been singled out by police for special treatment , and that the force had been heavy handed . |