Example sentences of "progress [vb past] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | BRITISH and Irish ministers last night ended eight hours of talks in London about the reform of the Ulster Defence Regiment without reaching agreement but claiming progress had been made . |
| 2 | However , Gerry Collins , the Irish minister for foreign affairs , later made it clear that progress had been made and he reaffirmed his Government 's commitment to the Anglo-Irish agreement . |
| 3 | An official from the New China News Agency office , China 's de facto embassy in Hong Kong , said no progress had been made in the negotiations and that an early solution was not expected . |
| 4 | Yet by 1988 substantial progress had been made on all but items ( 2 ) and ( 4 ) of the agenda . |
| 5 | By 1960 , progress had been made towards establishing half a million family units . |
| 6 | Last year the ministry claimed it had made progress , only to find it had to revise its figures to reveal no progress had been made for five years . |
| 7 | Before the budget , because of the problem of trying to find money to cut the local bills , little progress had been made . |
| 8 | He believed , moreover , that although man 's reason had gone some way in ‘ its great and proper business of morality ’ , the progress had been slow . |
| 9 | In the thirty years between the publication of Mendel 's results and their rediscovery , great progress had been made in describing the structure and behaviour of cells . |
| 10 | Once again progress had been made by identifying a kind of messenger or transmitter substance . |
| 11 | Ministers ostensibly believed that economic progress had been limited by control , regulation and over-taxation . |
| 12 | At the time he had started to play truant at school and his academic progress had been disrupted . |
| 13 | Its 11 November issue appropriately included features on what progress had been made towards war in space , following this with the other end of technology — all the facts on animal power — which proved that running horse transport could be cheaper than vans or lorries , though not mentioning that animal exhausts can be put to good use as well . |
| 14 | Even so , by 1941 considerable progress had been made . |
| 15 | On this occasion the Duke of Bedford , who had paid for a statue of Bunyan to be erected in the town , recollected how Pilgrim 's Progress had been the first book given to him as a child . |
| 16 | Of course there had been interrogation sessions in the Lubyanka , but they had been flimsy affairs , for hanging over their progress had been the sword of a man 's release . |
| 17 | Tax reform had been a major campaign commitment in 1976 , but four years later very little progress had been made on this matter . |
| 18 | Nonetheless welfare provisions for school children had made progress during the 1930s although because of the frequent economic crises this progress had been rather erratic . |
| 19 | Bevin emphasised the accumulating problems resulting from the fact that little progress had been made : he had encountered difficulties at the British Commonwealth conference held at Colombo in January 1950 and there were criticisms of the United States for not having given a lead . |
| 20 | In its report , Control of Nursing Manpower , published in February 1986 , the Committee of Public Accounts acknowledged that progress had been made by nurse managers but went on to recommend that the " DHSS should ensure that all general managers are made aware of all the possibilities for economies identified in the C & AG 's report " ( 2 ) . |
| 21 | One afternoon in March when a north-westerly was sending catspaws across the estuary , Harry and Sam took their wives down to see what progress had been made . |
| 22 | By the time the Swann Report came to be written , some progress had been made in the debate about ‘ underachievement ’ . |
| 23 | Wilson recognised the problems , admitting that though the list might be impressive , very little real progress had been made . |
| 24 | Robert had seen the development in varying stages , and had assisted in shipping out tons of building materials , but it was four months since he had been to Barbados and a lot of progress had been made since then . |
| 25 | There had been upsets , rows , false starts ; but if the progress had been sometimes dialectical , zig-zagging through arguments , rather than straightforward , it had undoubtedly happened . |
| 26 | The evasive answers told her progress had been minimal , it was going to be some time before Emelda faced a press launch . |
| 27 | She was able to chat to Ana for most of the meal and what with one thing and another she felt some progress had been made , though what she was doing in this situation she did not know . |
| 28 | Whilst some progress had been made complete free movement of capital can not be said to have been achieved by the time of the SEA . |
| 29 | In respect of its legislative task , the EC Commission 's report of November 1988 indicated that , whilst substantial progress had been made , only a third of the required measures had been adopted . |
| 30 | The IMF commented that progress had been made by the CAR in the implementation of structural reforms . |