Example sentences of "committee [vb past] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The timing of debates which took place in the House of Commons on proposals which the European Legislation Committee advised were legally or politically important was dependent on the Government . |
| 2 | The central dilemma the Committee faced was how to achieve a balance in company boards between strong direction and accountability . |
| 3 | The principal questions that the Chiefs of Staff Committee addressed were whether long-range missiles would eventually replace the bomber as the delivery system ; and if so , whether , in the meantime , the last generations of bombers needed to be supersonic or not . |
| 4 | The Policy and Resources Committee on Friday considered the position that included a take , a potential take of fifty thousand for this Committee , and similar reductions from other committees , but which left the funding deficit problem of six hundred and seventy one thousand , and what the Policies and Resources Committee decided was to ask the committees , all committees to look at how this six hundred and seventy one thousand gap would be funded , and that that should include committees like ourselves which had already identified and had put into the guidelines for reduction , the full five percent reduction that had been requested to be identified early in the process . |
| 5 | All sorts of questions and issues were covered , far exceeding what the official election committee felt was in order . |
| 6 | The question is one of the proper interpretation of the words enacted by Parliament and it could be that the Act does what the committee thought was not practicable and what they did not intend to do . |
| 7 | The first was the ‘ cult of the generalist ’ or ‘ all-rounder ’ which the Fulton Committee said was ‘ obsolete at all levels and in all parts of the Service ’ . |
| 8 | Mr Jack Straw , Labour 's shadow education secretary , said last night that it was the first time in his 10 years in Parliament that responsibility for piloting such an important piece of legislation through committee had been left to such junior departmental politicians . |
| 9 | A meeting of the Public Sector Pay Committee had been called for 8.45 a.m. — a sure sign that it had been called by Geoffrey Howe who was consistently the earliest ministerial starter . |
| 10 | The House UnAmerican Activities Committee had been sitting before McCarthy and it went on after him and in the long run this damaged more people . |
| 11 | The vice-chancellor said the creditors ' committee had been given insufficient time and information to judge the proposals , which were negotiated by BCCI liquidator Touche Ross , particularly whether accepting Abu Dhabi 's package would recover more money for creditors than suing the majority shareholders . |
| 12 | ( This Management team of four ( bondholders ) survived until November 1921 when at the Annual General Meeting that year the President , Lord Rathcreedan , announced that ‘ The provision for Club members on the Committee had been overlooked ’ and two nominations were called for ) . |
| 13 | Already , by February , the unity of the committee had been disrupted by disputes over the incursion of some of its leading members into politics during the Stormont general election . |
| 14 | The Fleming committee had been set up in response to pressure from the independent schools themselves : their heads and governors had been worried by the drop in enrolments and income in the 1930s , and many hoped to share in the growing national investment that would follow the War . |
| 15 | In 1972 the Criminal Law Revision Committee had been particularly exercised by the fear that silent suspects could ‘ ambush ’ the prosecution with evidence at their trial which they did not mention during questioning and which the police now had no time independently to verify . |
| 16 | The Committee had been appointed to consider the Foreign Office only and , although they heard a considerable amount of evidence about rebuilding the War Department as part of the denigration of Pennethorne , they specifically excluded it from their Report . |
| 17 | A new amenities committee had been formed within the parish council during the year , and chairman Ken Yeldham explained that it had been formed to deal with the things that fell outside the scope of the present committees . |
| 18 | The building of the bypass and a grant of land meant ground was now available for allotments and a new committee had been set up . |
| 19 | The Councillor contended that the Committee had been overinfluenced by the need to make economies and had not given enough consideration to the local view , shown in letters and at a local meeting at which opposition to closure had been unanimous . |
| 20 | Meantime , the Parents ' Action Committee had been writing letters to Councillors as well . |
| 21 | The Social Security Advisory Committee had been asked for its solution to the argument about when men and women should retire . |
| 22 | Outside Parliament , an all-party Children 's Minimum Campaign Committee had been formed in 1934 ‘ to ensure that no child shall by reason of the poverty of its parents be deprived of at least the minimum food and other requirements for full health ’ . |
| 23 | The Committee had been unable to decide how successful school feeding would be , but suggested that local authorities should keep a close watch upon voluntary experiments . |
| 24 | The committee had been established two years earlier by the Wilson Government in response to widespread indignation about rate increases imposed by the new councils in 1974 . |
| 25 | The Clyde Valley Regional Planning Committee had been constituted in 1943 , and Abercrombie was appointed Principal Consultant ; Robert Matthew was his deputy . |
| 26 | A passengers ' committee had been formed , to whom the shipping company gave free cabling facilities ; appeals for intercession were despatched to influential people , including the wife of the Cuban president . |
| 27 | Well they were , the ward committee had been seeking for a , a candidate , but I had no opposition at that time at all . |
| 28 | A Staff Committee had been mooted as one way of overcoming these difficulties . |
| 29 | Following the establishment of a committee to review the Constitution and to prepare for the introduction of a multiparty system [ see p. 36842 ] , the President 's office announced on Nov. 6 that a six-member committee had been set up ; the committee 's members included a leading human rights lawyer , Ismail Ali Jumaale , released from prison on Oct. 25 after four months ' detention . |
| 30 | Bhattarai met with the King on May 15 and afterwards a statement was issued from the Royal Palace explaining that the drafting committee had been abolished . |