Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] [been] formed [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His situation was not in this respect dissimilar from that of the leaders of the North of England Sailors and Seagoing Firemen 's Friendly Association , which had been formed at Sunderland in 1879 by John Beresford and was commonly known as the " Sunderland Union " . |
| 2 | It was also the first opportunity at national level for the electorate to deliver its verdict on the DLP , which had been formed by Roh in January 1990 through the merger of his minority ruling party with two of the three main opposition parties [ see pp. 37187-88 ] . |
| 3 | During that summer , tenants ' associations which had been formed in Rossville Flats , Meenan Park , Shantallow , Rossville Street , Lecky Road and Foyle Hill set up a central council to coordinate their activities . |
| 4 | It was announced in mid-November that the United People 's Party ( UPP ) , the grouping formed by Hyundai conglomerate founder Chung Ju Yung , was to merge with the New Korea Party ( NKP ) which had been formed in October [ see p. 39142 ] by defectors from the political mainstream , most of whom had been DLP members who were opposed to the succession of Kim Young Sam . |
| 5 | The wartime machinery of industrial relations still survived — particularly the Whitley Councils which had been formed in order to bring employers and employees together in an attempt to resolve differences without industrial conflict . |
| 6 | The national congress of the Democratic Party , which had been formed in February 1989 [ see p. 36453 ] , on Oct. 7 , 1989 , voted to retain its collective three-person leadership , comprising Zach de Beer , Wynand Malan and Denis Worrall . |
| 7 | The following day British Satellite Broadcasting ( BSB — launched in April 1990 ) merged with its chief rival , Sky Television , which had been formed in February 1989 and was owned by the media magnate Rupert Murdoch , both companies having sustained substantial operating losses over the year . |
| 8 | Mugabe won 78 per cent of the vote in the presidential election against 16 per cent obtained by his opponent Edgar Tekere , leader of the opposition Zimbabwe United Movement ( ZUM ) which had been formed in April 1989 [ see pp. 36965-66 ] . |