Example sentences of "committee was [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A committee was appointed by the Portuguese Government to receive and distribute food to those in distress , but there were still many deaths . |
| 2 | The committee was led by the current ANC secretary-general , Cyril Ramaphosa , a veteran ANC activist ; the Rev Beyers Naude , a radical Afrikaner churchman ; and the Rev Frank Chikane , secretary-general of the South African Council of Churches . |
| 3 | A special committee was created for the 1907 Congress , and the irrepressible Van Kol again proposed a ‘ positive colonial policy ’ , affirming that ‘ under a socialist regime , colonization can be a work of civilization ’ . |
| 4 | At the end of the same year an unofficial foreign affairs committee was formed within the ruling Liberal party to mobilise public opinion in favour of fuller discussion of foreign policy in parliament , though it never represented more than a minority of Liberal members . |
| 5 | In November 1927 the Greater London Regional Planning Committee was constituted by the then Minister of Health , Neville Chamberlain . |
| 6 | The Committee was convened by the Chief Whips of the parties , and the chief professional organizers became joint secretaries . |
| 7 | A reorganization committee was established for the thirty-nine wards of the three hospitals . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , the Lord Chancellor 's Advisory Committee was convinced by the indirect evidence that there was such a drift . |
| 9 | And he advised parliament , when a House of Commons committee was enquiring into the provisional continuance of the prison hulks system in 1778 , that conditions had improved since his earlier criticisms and that he would support continued use of the hulks until transportation could be resumed . |
| 10 | This type of committee was modelled on the Select Committee on Nationalized Industries which had been set up in 1955 because it was felt that Parliament could not adequately control the range of corporations it had created . |
| 11 | The emergence of the people 's committees was promoted by the significant improvement in the communications network in Korea during the Japanese era and through the population growth and mobility of the population under colonialism . |
| 12 | The Treasury was consulted less about economic matters , and its place in servicing the relevant Cabinet committees was taken by the Economic Section . |