Example sentences of "was [vb pp] forward [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the summer of 1869 onwards the process was carried forward by a combination of the Emperor 's will and by its own momentum . |
| 2 | The base SVR4.0 kernel was taken forward into a multi-processing release which supports up to 16 processors , SVR4 MP . |
| 3 | In 1960 a major proposal was put forward for a British and Commonwealth programme by a consortium of Britain 's main aerospace and electronics companies — called the British Space Development Company ( BSDC ) . |
| 4 | This unattractive and socially divisive reaction has been reinforced by government publications ( DHSS , 1985/86 ) on the ‘ reform ’ of social security in which the potential burden on the tax payer of pension provision was put forward as a primary reason for the changes . |
| 5 | There is , to put it crudely , a firm intuition that the self we can identify with our immediate consciousness is a unity , in that we would not count as being that self any part or module of ourselves which was put forward as a candidate for being a conscious entity . |
| 6 | was put forward as a possible way forward , section four of the report describes this approach being more detailed . |
| 7 | The Scottish Office 's ‘ bridging ’ scheme , placing mid-career civil servants in company non-executive directorships , was put forward as an ideal means to broaden the skills of women in functional roles or to refresh those of women nearing the end of a career break . |
| 8 | The plan was put forward in a letter to Cardinal Amleto Cicognani , Secretary of State , dated 18 October 1962 , when the Council was barely a week old ( L'Osservatore Romano , 26 January 1984 , or Hebblethwaite , 1984 pp. 442–4 ) . |
| 9 | A similar proposition was put forward in a petition from the prelates , barons , knights and other Gascon nobles to Edward III that their ancient liberties , fors and customs stipulated that all issues of inheritance and other cases concerning prelates and nobles were to be heard by the king-duke or his seneschal . |