Example sentences of "meeting [vb past] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The inner cabinet meeting had been billed as being vital for the search for a settlement in the region and the future of the national-unity government . |
| 2 | The meeting had been called , in advance of the general monthly gathering , to investigate Yorkshire 's dismal record last season and to discuss a suggestion by the captain , Phil Carrick , that players born outside the county be recruited . |
| 3 | The nub of the meeting had been a lengthy discussion on the merits or otherwise of four-day cricket , while matters decided on were the 25-point penalty for producing inferior pitches , retained with wider definition to include over-grassed pitches ; overseas players ( counties may register up to two for next season only ) ; a return to 15-yard run-ups in the Sunday League ; and the making up of lost time in Tests to a maximum one hour . |
| 4 | British officials said that no more than a quarter of the meeting had been taken up with the ‘ general issues ’ raised by the Chinese . |
| 5 | The nub of the meeting had been a lengthy discussion on the merits or otherwise of four-day cricket , while matters decided on were the 25-point penalty for producing inferior pitches , retained with wider definition to include over-grassed pitches ; overseas players ( counties may register up to two for next season only ) ; a return to 15-yard run-ups in the Sunday League ; and the making up of lost time in Tests to a maximum one hour . |
| 6 | A meeting had been called at one of the local schools , another in a series of as yet fruitless attempts to persuade businesses not to abandon the area to inner-city rot . |
| 7 | By the standards of the Kind , their sole meeting had been almost yesterday . |
| 8 | A meeting had been arranged between Winston Churchill , President Truman and Stalin at Potsdam , to commence on 17th . |
| 9 | McCann refused to be nominated ; he took the quite accurate view that the meeting had been called in order to incorporate the militants , attach the lustre of their achievements to a new , more moderate group of leaders and thus deny them any significant influence . |
| 10 | A meeting had been arranged with Saddam Hussein on January 8 , but our plane was delayed and we arrived in Baghdad too late for our appointment . |
| 11 | His fierce pride demanded that she must assume their meeting had been coincidental . |
| 12 | After the formal business of the meeting had been concluded , the district council 's community and leisure services manager Nigel Lockley gave a short talk on the work of his department , and how their remit has been reshaped by the introduction of the business concept to local council services . |
| 13 | Others , however , saw the N.D.D.S. in a different light and role , and soon there was internal strife within the Society which tore it asunder in 1885 after a general meeting had been held in London without Paul 's knowledge . |
| 14 | And he could put from him the treacherous suspicion that their first meeting had been contrived , part of a plan devised by her and Pascoe to exploit his influence with Hilary . |
| 15 | He said that the latter was a member of Beattie 's UDA company and that the meeting had been attended by four other UDA officers when he named . |
| 16 | His meeting had been timed for three o'clock . |
| 17 | In February the Institution sub-committee reported that a meeting had been held with representatives of the North West Metropolitan Regional Hospital Board : Sir Frederick Messer , M.P . |
| 18 | The press version of the events at Lambeth Baths was that the meeting had been rowdy . |
| 19 | Those who were admitted to the meeting had been vetted and no trouble was expected . |
| 20 | She could see that if the circumstances of their meeting had been happier they would have had a good drink of her mother 's secret stash of Bushmill 's and reminisced all night . |
| 21 | The meeting had been arranged with intense , frantic planning as to detail , with letters despatched by lawyers through couriers , paragraphs changed bo mutual request , assurances as to what I could say or not and , indeed , whether I could admit that I had even appeared on this day at the august offices of Olympia & York . |
| 22 | Later , however , I did tell him that the meeting had been a disaster and that if he thought it had mollified the press in any way he was greatly mistaken . |
| 23 | The first meeting had been at York in 1831 ; thereafter the Association visited the university cities of Oxford , Cambridge , Edinburgh and Dublin , before in 1836 venturing to Bristol and subsequently to other large towns . |
| 24 | Some 15 months earlier , however , a meeting had been held at the same spot , and after that meeting , a disturbance took place at the training centre ( although the report of the case gives no indication of the scale or the cause of the previous disturbance ) . |
| 25 | We felt the meeting had been very worthwhile in giving us a better understanding of the way new housing targets were estimated , the relationship between the WO and planning authorities , and the points at which environmental factors were taken into account . |
| 26 | Tennis Courts are still in the District 's possession but , to date the tennis club has made no move to make use of them although a meeting had been arranged . |
| 27 | Tennis Courts are still in the District 's possession but , to date the tennis club has made no move to make use of them although a meeting had been arranged . |
| 28 | Informal meeting had been held . |
| 29 | Although the meeting had been arranged to coincide with final approval of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development [ see p. 37132 ] , those talks were still incomplete , so there was little formal discussion of events in Eastern Europe . |
| 30 | The 16-point plan presented by the rebels at this meeting had been rejected by the government , but on Oct. 15 Chissano announced that MNR rebels would be allowed to stand in the 1991 elections if they renounced violence and laid down their arms . |