Example sentences of "[noun] have been [verb] on [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A former IBM Corp employee has been arraigned on seven counts of grand larceny for allegedly stealing more than $49m worth of mainframe memory boards from the company — but you 're meant to laugh at the $49m figure , because that is the highest price at which they were included in the price list , and very few customers are likely ever to have paid it ; the indictment by an Ulster County grand jury charged Carl McDonald , 41 , of Poughkeepsie conspired to steal 3,381 mainframe memory boards from IBM 's complex in Kingston , and allegedly sold the boards for $7m , a more realistic valuation , to computer firms in Texas , Minnesota , California , Canada and here in the UK ; no names . |
| 2 | Private George Trumper had been killed on 2 November 1917 at Passchendaele , the letter had informed him : bravely , while charging the enemy lines at Polygon Wood . |
| 3 | She knew how Donna had been banking on one of the boys being a good match , and it seemed neither of them were . |
| 4 | Manning said he was told Mr McVeigh had been warned on four occasions not to supply goods to the security forces . |
| 5 | This led Tolstoy ( in the minister and the massacres ) to the misconception that a subsequent instruction concerning the definition of a Soviet citizen had been issued on 6 May . |
| 6 | The reserves remaining net to LASMO have been presented on two bases , on the relevant working interest and also on a net entitlement basis which takes into account projections of government share of production calculated in accordance with certain price and expenditure assumptions . |
| 7 | This option must be used when an SPR has been passed on 6 times using option 3.4.0 — Accept/Reject SPR and no-one has yet taken responsibility for it . |
| 8 | His encyclical Mystici Corporis had been published on 29 June 1943 ; in other words , only three months before Divino Afflante Spiritu . |
| 9 | Dunkin thought that two groups of headlines ‘ each consisting of two sets would be required only if four formes were constantly in use ’ ( p.301 ) , i.e. if The Fairy Queen had been printed on two presses ( two formes per press , working simultaneously : one forme in use ; the other standing by ) or , conceivably , printed on four presses ( the presses doing only one side of a sheet each ) . |
| 10 | The machine had been supplied on 7 July 1955 and the accident had happened on 9 August 1956 , but the manufacturers were not convened in the action until 25 March 1959 . |
| 11 | So far , all the investigations of definitional overlap using the MRDs have been based on one sample of data , which was selected at random from a corpus of business letters . |
| 12 | 18,000 miles of new telegraph and telephone wires have been erected on 30,000 new poles , mainly by the Army . |
| 13 | Defective plastic studs which easily come loose and could choke a child have been discovered on ten Spanish-made seats . |
| 14 | As the work was being reorganized to promote the war effort , I was to be given a National Service driving licence and other facilities — ; Conscription having been introduced on 27 April , this seemed the ideal transitional job to undertake pending the call-up . |
| 15 | By 1987 240 million guilders had been spent on 280 projects in more than 100 cities , with another 200 million for rural facilities . |
| 16 | A telephone call reported a device had been placed on one of the SVR train-sets . |
| 17 | Many of those that use alien plants have more than one food plant ( that is , are polyphagous ) ; the cabbage moth has been recorded on 31 different species of plants including 21 aliens . |
| 18 | Since independence in 1980 some 52,000 peasant farmers had been resettled on 3,000,000 hectares purchased from the 4,000-strong white farming community , but whites still owned 12,000,000 hectares ( 40 per cent of Zimbabwe 's total land area ) . |
| 19 | But these experiments have been criticised on two counts . |
| 20 | International : Dictator who sold out country to drug barons faces 120 years ' jail After a seven-month trial , Manuel Noriega has been convicted on eight charges . |
| 21 | What the position would have been if , say , half of the contents including the signature had been written on one occasion and the rest of the contents on another , later , occasion , with the deceased indicating on the later occasion to the two witnesses that he regarded his signature as authenticating the whole of the contents , does not arise for decision and need not be decided now . |
| 22 | Gotti had been prosecuted on three previous occasions — while the current trial was in progress the foreman of the jury in the 1987 trial was indicted for conspiring with Gotti to return a not guilty verdict in exchange for $60,000 — and had been acquitted each time . |
| 23 | This was presumably the reply given to the representative of HQ Army Group E whom Gen Schmidt-Richberg had been instructed on 13 May to send back to HQ 5 Corps at 1400 hrs the following day . |
| 24 | We have been able to maintain parity within the ERM , interest rates have been reduced on eight successive occasions and we now have one of the lowest , if not the lowest , monthly inflation rates in the Community . |
| 25 | Meanwhile , life membership of the Irish Ladies Hockey Union has been conferred on two Ulster women , Professor Florence McKeown and Sheila Hennessy . |
| 26 | MONEY to improve Darlington 's council housing has been concentrated on one part of the town at the expense of other areas , Liberal Democrats claimed . |
| 27 | Until the fourth century , moreover , Jesus 's birthday had been celebrated on 6 January . |
| 28 | The men had been working on 415 volt switchgear at Caldervale High School . |
| 29 | The election results had been announced on 6 March . |
| 30 | To add a bit of spice to the proceedings a sketchy transition had been tacked on one end of the ramp and that was the main focus of attention , especially in the grown-ups group . |