Example sentences of "committee were [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was mid-January 1990 and the members of the Commons ' Energy Committee were plodding towards the ever-receding horizons that contained the answer to their question : was it worth continuing to fund the fast breeder reactor ( FBR ) ? |
| 2 | Readers of this paper will need no reminding of the way in which the important recommendations of the Warnock committee were encapsulated in the 1981 Act but accompanied by a clear negative statement : ‘ There will be no additional funds ’ . |
| 3 | We 've budgeted this year , er , for a maximum of six , but as Committee were informed at the last meeting , that number has exceeded during the year , erm , and that did create some financial difficulties , but that is the budget for specifically for six out-county placements , which not only do grown people in specialist er , accommodation such as secure accommodation , but also younger children with disabilities . |
| 4 | Unity Campaign Committees were established after the official launching of the Campaign at Manchester . |
| 5 | As a result , there has been a steady growth in the number of companies that have an audit committee — around two-thirds of the top 150 UK listed industrial companies and the great majority of UK listed financial institutions now have audit committees , and in more than half these cases , the committees were established within the past five years . |