Example sentences of "[was/were] introduce [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He presented the mali and myself with a hookah and while we took a preliminary suck , we were introduced to the other guests . |
| 2 | We were introduced to the Mint House and , as Nancy and I listened , we learnt that money had been made there before the Royal Mint in London . |
| 3 | I then resolution two which is continuing the process that we were introduced to the last Synod and the previous Synod consideration of the endless discussion document on Christian initiation . |
| 4 | Deprivation payments were introduced with the 1990 general practitioner contract with the intention of putting more resources into practices where deprivation might be expected to increase the demand for services . |
| 5 | During the Japanese occupation of Korea ( 1910–1945 ) Japanese influences were introduced into the existing Korean martial arts . |
| 6 | The clauses , which were introduced under the 1974-79 Labour Government , were no doubt designed to reassure people that the dangers would be minimised , as the spent nuclear fuel would be returned to the country of origin . |
| 7 | Erm It 's now thr nearly three years since management procedures were introduced as the first stage of our aspirations to become quality assured . |
| 8 | Three unsuccessful bills against occasional conformity were introduced during the early years of Anne 's reign , culminating in the famous attempt in 1704 to tack the third bill on to a Land Tax Bill . |
| 9 | Many of the proposals in the White Paper were introduced through the new contracts for general practitioners which took effect in April 1990 , in spite of strong resistance . |
| 10 | Guidelines were introduced by the then Prime Minister , Geoffrey Palmer , with effect from June 1 , 1990 , under which Cabinet ministers , ministers outside the Cabinet and parliamentary under-secretaries were required to disclose their financial interests within four weeks of taking office and annually thereafter . |
| 11 | The ideas of Marx and Engels were introduced by the first International ( 1864–76 ) , which had sections in several Latin American countries . |
| 12 | Important innovations were introduced by the 1919 Act , which were to have far-reaching implications . |
| 13 | Most of those measures were introduced by the present Prime Minister . |
| 14 | There are three important bases for such charges , and two of them were introduced by the Labour party . |
| 15 | The situation regarding ‘ ecclesiastical buildings ’ is complicated , and new provisions were introduced by the 1986 Housing and Planning Bill . |
| 16 | At this stage two men , unknown to any of us , were introduced by the industrious Anne , whose excited curiosity was increasing by the second . |
| 17 | They were introduced by the commanding officer of Layforce , Brigadier Laycock , other exploits of Roger Courtney are described later in Chapter 8 . |
| 18 | Universal state old age pensions were introduced by the Old Age Pensions Act of 1908 , workmen 's insurance in 1911 . |
| 19 | ATs and PS for maths and science were introduced in the second year of key stage 3 , and those for design and technology in the first year of key stages 1–3 . |
| 20 | Major alterations were introduced in the updated Firefly AS.7 the prototype of which ( WJ215 ) made its initial flight on May 22 , 1951 , the first production machine ( WJ146 ) flying on October 16 that year . |
| 21 | Whitebred Shorthorn and White Galloway bulls were introduced in the 1920s and 1930s to improve the beef quality of some of the old dairy herds and , although some were still being milked in the 1950s , a positive decision was made in the 1960s to concentrate on high-quality beef production . |
| 22 | It is very important that we recognize the possibility of accepting the best features of comprehensive schools while getting rid of the worst , remembering with reasonable humility that the schools were introduced in the first place as experimental , and that all the trial and error may not yet be over . |
| 23 | Accordingly two sets of legislation were introduced in the 1960s : the Race Relations Act , which maintained the liberal facade of the state and which , though so weak as to be almost useless in practice , had as a basis the assumption that black people were a part of the community and needed to be protected from racial prejudice : in contrast , and much more effective , were the Immigration Acts , which themselves discriminated against black workers . |
| 24 | Trimphones were introduced in the 1960s as an alternative to the conventional type of ‘ phone , and now account for almost 6 per cent of all Britain 's telephones . |
| 25 | Wooden pegs were introduced in the 1920's , confusingly also known as tees , and are today mostly made of plastic . |
| 26 | Bird strikes have become far more frequent since the jumbo jets were introduced in the late 1970's . |
| 27 | In the United States , Health Management Organisations were introduced in the early 1970s to hold down the formidable costs of American medicine by encouraging more competition between providers . |
| 28 | The ‘ general interest ’ illustrated weekly magazines like Picture Post were killed off in the late 1950s by TV , even before the free colour magazines and expanded feature coverage of the Sunday papers , led by The Sunday Times , were introduced in the early 1960s . |
| 29 | Military-trained rapid strike units , known as Headquarters Mobile Support Units and Divisional Mobile Support Units , were introduced in the early 1980s . |
| 30 | Two other drugs were introduced in the sixteenth century , ‘ China root ’ , an extract of Smilax sinensis , which was brought over from Goa by the Portuguese , and sarsaparilla from Sassafras officinale , an American plant . |