Example sentences of "[that] was [verb] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In an interview with La Stampa yesterday , Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA chief Carlo De Benedetti condemned the pervasive system of political corruption , which he says obligated Olivetti to pay bribes or lose contracts , as ‘ having reduced Italy to a state worse than the Third World ’ : he says that at the last shareholders meeting earlier this year , he had to deny any bribery because he could n't preview information to the shareholders that was intended for the legal authorities ; he says that facing the judges , he felt liberated from a weight — ‘ then I felt a sense of justice — it pleased me to be there , ’ noting that when the company decided that the demands of the postal service for slush funds became too extreme and Olivetti stopped paying , ‘ we did n't sell another machine to the Post — we had arrived at the absurd point where , if we did n't pay , we did n't work and the moment we quit paying , we did n't work any more ’ . |
| 2 | Investors , who have seen life breathed into a share price that was destined for the doldrums this year , may have a different view . |
| 3 | ‘ Bertie has been over to see us and has driven the car fitted with the engine management system he used in Donegal and the one that was fitted for the Ulster Rally . |
| 4 | The output from this analysis was summarised in the final report as a functional description of the filing systems , and used as the basis for the detailed user requirement that was prepared for the client . |
| 5 | Table 1.2 shows the contents of such a lattice that was obtained for the word its ( the graphical representation is shown in Fig 1.3 ) . |
| 6 | The recording system that was used for the baseline should be continued in exactly the same form . |
| 7 | The processing for the probabilistic syntactic analyser has been carried out on the same hardware that was used for the rule-based investigations ( i.e. a SUN Sparc 4/75 with 48 MBytes of memory ) . |
| 8 | I am s one that has just been recently appointed to one of these er regional ecumenical teams and at a meeting that was held for the three presbytery areas in the sort of west coast of Scotland , around the Greenoch area , erm it was , it became apparent that all these people who are being appointed er through their , their churches are in the main clergy and the convenor of the local committee himself a ruling elder of the Church of Scotland expressed concern about this , that there is no real er and I would just put it to the , to the assembly , there is there is no need for these members to be members of the clergy , in fact it would be good if presbyteries remembered when making a nomination eh that it , er it need n't be , it could be a , a an elder or indeed er a lay person holding no particular office within the church . |
| 9 | Most of the brains of the organisation , or those academics who were able to pull Establishment strings and make the best of college connections , were billeted fairly comfortably near B.P. or had private transport , and were therefore able to take part in the social life that was organised for the community . |
| 10 | Erm before we started this drawing which so if I co , perhaps if I stand here everyone will be able to see which is probably fairly familiar and in , in most respects it goes back about six years to the first master plan that was produced for the estate erm to provide a combination of regeneration and new build . |
| 11 | We used to do any typing that was needed for the Aurae Phiala publications , and for the few little books and articles Stephen occasionally produced . |