Example sentences of "agreement had been " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | position was serious , and that any chance of arriving at an agreement had been alienated by bad management . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | By September , after meetings with the legate and King Louis , a new agreement had been reached at Nonancourt . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Yet on the other hand an agreement had been reached for mutual military aid as early as 1609 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The Court avoided this doctrine by finding that the agreement had been implemented within the EC , and hence fell within the jurisdiction of EC law . |
| 18 | However , resistance on the part of the Uruguayan government to Soviet overtures in 1959 for a larger share of the market indicated that the agreement had been little more than a contingency measure on the part of Montevideo . |
| 19 | He felt that the agreement had been made " in rather a hurry " ! |
| 20 | Once agreement had been reached on these questions , the negotiations centred on the key issue of grade boundaries , i.e. the translation o job scores into grades . |
| 21 | This was found impossible , and the ship was worked back to London by the plaintiff and eight more of the original crew , with whom the agreement had been made at Cronstadt . |
| 22 | It was announced on Oct. 27 , 1988 , that an agreement had been reached with 11 " Paris Club " creditor countries for the rescheduling of USdollars 940,000,000 of Moroccan debt . |
| 23 | The West German Defence Minister , Gerhard Stoltenberg , announced in the Bundestag ( Federal Parliament ) in Bonn on Sept. 28 , 1989 , that agreement had been reached among NATO air forces on new restrictions to reduce by up to 45 per cent noise caused by low-level military training flights over West Germany . |
| 24 | However , as of Feb. 14 no such agreement had been confirmed . |
| 25 | The UK Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd stated that the agreement had been achieved without " any sacrifice of sovereignty " over the Falkland ( Malvinas ) Islands and he hoped that it would be a turning point leading to a " new relationship " between the two countries . |
| 26 | Moscow radio reported on Jan. 9 , 1990 , that an agreement had been signed on direct co-operation between the Kurchatov Atomic Energy Institute in Moscow and the High-Tech Co. of China . |
| 27 | The Independent of July 16 noted that no agreement had been reached on limiting arms sales . |
| 28 | A crowd of 15,000 gathered outside the meeting place , refusing to allow Chand to leave until an agreement had been reached , and that night he offered his resignation . |
| 29 | The projected new prison had been cancelled , no agreement had been reached on the location of a pre-trial detention centre , and the movement of prisoners from prisons in Washington DC to free spaces had been outweighed by the overall increase in the number of inmates . |
| 30 | Both sides rejected suggestions that the agreement had been influenced by Iranian assistance in securing the release of two US hostages in Lebanon in April [ see p. 37391 ] . |