Example sentences of "[Wh det] were [adj] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a Commons statement on Nov. 30 , 1989 , Nicholas Ridley , the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry , said that the government took the view that the concessions were consistent with the terms of EC approval and that these arrangements were the least which were necessary to secure the successful transfer of the Rover Group to the private sector . |
| 2 | This last point represented a compromise between Scandinavian countries , which favoured a permanent ban , and France and the UK , which were keen to retain the option of using the sea as a dumping ground for large radioactive components from nuclear submarines and power stations . |
| 3 | It had to take place over a long period , in the face of a prodigious number of uncontrolled variables which were likely to confuse the outcome . |
| 4 | Thirteen years later , Fields and Stansbury did a follow-up study of Break 's work but with some changes in the research methodology which were likely to increase the proportion of those reporting disincentive effects . |
| 5 | However , it was evident that many annual reports included creative presentational techniques which were likely to enhance the user 's perceptions of the company 's performance . |
| 6 | The public interest would hardly suffer by the curtailment of temptations to give or accept credit which were likely to follow the abolition of so dubious a guarantee of honesty as furnished by the liability to imprisonment . |
| 7 | Missing the affection of friends and relatives , and short of material goods and luxuries , the young refugees were open to temptations which were liable to shock the ladies at Bloomsbury House . |
| 8 | Though it worked with reasonable smoothness in some cases , this was a result of good county-district relationships which were able to overcome the inherent difficulties of the division of responsibilities as set out in ( virtually incomprehensible ) detail in Schedule 16 of the 1972 Act . |
| 9 | For example , in Caquezo and Rio Negro in Colombia corn and potato yields have improved 200 and 90 per cent respectively on hillside farms which were able to adopt the improved technology ( Sepuldeva 1980 ) , although this example was only on a limited scale . |
| 10 | The idea of ‘ Napoleonism ’ , that is , the concept of the Emperor as a phenomenon of history and therefore politically dead , was one which appealed to the conservative strata of French society , which were glad to remember the glory the Emperor had given to France but had no wish to see him re-embodied . |
| 11 | Achimota was organised on the lines of a British public school with the boarders grouped in ‘ houses ’ which were supposed to inculcate the team spirit : however , it was more than a boarding school . |