Example sentences of "agreement [vb past] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ On July 12 Lord Young confirmed that tax agreements had been made with the Inland Revenue , and there had been an exchange of letters ‘ on terms satisfactory to BAe ’ . ’ |
| 2 | No agreements had been laid out beforehand . |
| 3 | Again , agreements had been secretly made as ‘ undertakings ’ in the course of privatisation . |
| 4 | Norway 's biggest gas field of all — Troll — is intended to supply the European market but at the end of 1984 no agreements had been concluded . |
| 5 | A joint statement issued by the two leaders described the meeting as an ‘ important step in the process of putting US-Soviet relations on a more productive and sustainable basis ’ ; in particular , a draft treaty on the reduction and limitation of strategic nuclear arms had been discussed and a series of agreements had been made on the contentious question of the verification of nuclear testing . |
| 6 | The impetus for arms control agreements had been boosted by the US-Soviet summit meeting on May 31-June 3 [ see pp. 37518-19 ] , while both alliances had simultaneously been discussing their possible transformation in the light of the acknowledged end of the Cold War , the Warsaw Pact at its June 7 summit meeting [ see p. 37550 ] and the NATO Foreign Ministers at their June 7-8 meeting in Turnberry in Scotland [ the July news digest ] . |
| 7 | By June 1990 , as the result of a campaign launched in May 1989 , a total of some 550 agreements had been reached in the engineerng industry for a phased reduction of the basic working week , generally from 39 to 37 hours . |
| 8 | The agreement was due to be formalized in October , but was placed in doubt when private creditor banks objected to the government 's announcement that it would not resume interest payments to them until a comprehensive set of new debt rescheduling agreements had been reached . |
| 9 | On Dec. 20 , 1989 , agreements had been reached with commercial banks for the rescheduling of short-term debts , and shortly afterwards agreements were concluded with the " Paris Club " of creditor countries to reschedule the country 's debt to countries and international institutions . |
| 10 | Previous agreements had been made bilaterally with Kiribati , Vanuatu , New Zealand and , most recently , Papua New Guinea . |
| 11 | By August 1990 , the government reported that agreements had been signed to establish diplomatic relations with approximately 100 countries and that 21 missions had already been established in Windhoek . |
| 12 | The Chinese deputy Foreign Minister , Tian Zengpei , arrived in Moscow on Sept. 16 following visits to Estonia , Latvia and Lithuania , where agreements had been signed establishing diplomatic relations , and acknowledging in all three cases that the PRC government was the only lawful government representing the whole of China . |
| 13 | According to a report from the Itar-Tass news agency on Oct. 29 , Yeltsin said that withdrawals would only resume after separate agreements had been signed with Estonia , Latvia and Lithuania to regulate the procedures and to set out measures to " provide social security for the servicemen and members of their families " . |
| 14 | The initial agreement made was a licensing agreement whereby Rover ( then known as BL ) assembled the Honda Ballade from 1981 onwards with limited alterations and sold it as the Triumph Acclaim . |
| 15 | The agreement had been drawn up by Bernard Pons , the head of the RPR 's parliamentary group , but it was opposed by the former prime minister , Jacques Chirac , who is the founder and president of the RPR . |
| 16 | It is conceivable that if an agreement had been signed and if henceforth Anglo-American relations had been bathed in sweetness and light , arrangements might have been made for pooling atomic weapons production . |
| 17 | He had been best man at their wedding — a formidable pre-nuptial agreement had been necessary for that capitulation — and had carried out his duties with a mixture of incompetence , vulgarity and irreverence which , as she occasionally enjoyed telling Norman , had spoilt for her the memory of her big day . |
| 18 | position was serious , and that any chance of arriving at an agreement had been alienated by bad management . |
| 19 | It was hard to see what extra benefit would accrue to Honda from such a stake , especially when , in addition to the ventures already discussed , an agreement had been reached to assemble Honda cars in Rover factories on spare production lines in order to provide jobs for Rover workers . |
| 20 | But in February 1955 France complained bitterly that the agreement had been infringed by the West German decision to make English the main foreign language to be taught in all schools . |
| 21 | The assurance was given ; a special committee to plan the nurses ' home had already begun its work , and agreement had been reached with Hackney Hospital for amalgamation of the two nurse-training schools . |
| 22 | He noted that the agreement had been for DEC to increase its stake in Olivetti to 10% in July 1994 , but found a means whereby it could make good on its commitment earlier than expected . |
| 23 | Even after the outline of a farm agreement had been sketched in Washington last November , the Community equivocated with the outgoing administration , which was in a mood for compromise . |
| 24 | A joint bulletin issued on 7 June stated that agreement had been reached over methods of consulting Korean democratic parties and other relevant organisations on developments leading to the creation of a unified government and that the text of agreement would be issued shortly . |
| 25 | By September , after meetings with the legate and King Louis , a new agreement had been reached at Nonancourt . |
| 26 | By July an outline agreement had been presented to Law and Lloyd George , by which 150 seats were allocated to Coalition Liberals , but no decision of principle was taken . |
| 27 | However , it seemed as though agreement had been reached when Aung San and Than Tun signed the so-called Kandy Agreement on 7 September , whereby the BNA/PBF would be embodied in the regular army as separate units under their own officers . |
| 28 | Yet on the other hand an agreement had been reached for mutual military aid as early as 1609 . |
| 29 | The petitioner pleaded in reply that no binding compromise had been reached and asserted , in the alternative that the compromise agreement had been cancelled by the failure on the part of the respondents to pay the sums due to be paid thereunder . |
| 30 | That agreement had been signed only after acrimonious debates about the size of Fields 's shareholding ( Fields had originally wanted 50 per cent ) , and the payment to him of £250,000 — the amount of money he had spent on laying the foundations of the airline before meeting Branson . |