Example sentences of "[verb] been [vb pp] [verb] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A longitudinal study of over 1,100 young people has been extended to cover the first four years in the labour market , from ages 16 to 20 years . |
| 2 | The garden has been planned to make the last amount of work for those who maintain it : John himself ; his father , who is now 80 and can work for only short periods ; Mr Broughton , who clips the hedges , and Patricia who weeds . |
| 3 | As my son has again won great honour by his composition of the dramatic serenata , he has been asked to write the first opera for the coming carnival in Milan and immediately afterwards the second opera for the Teatro San Benedetto in Venice [ this second commission was never , in fact , carried out ] … |
| 4 | As a result of the Belgian links , the college has been asked to become a third partner in a TEMPUS project . |
| 5 | To reduce the number of hours of our training it has been agreed to offer the next course over four terms only . |
| 6 | The old maestro having been asked to give a last exhibition of his art , no one wished it to go wrong . |
| 7 | General Wiseman was retiring and a High Council had been called to elect the next General . |
| 8 | ( And Baden-Powell had been asked to become the first chairman of the Juvenile Organizations Committee , established by the Home Secretary , Herbert Samuel in 1916 . ) |
| 9 | Goodall had been invited to referee the First Division game between Tarbes and Brive . |
| 10 | In Britain it was the face of William Shakespeare that had been chosen to become the first hologramic image used on credit cards . |
| 11 | Noble had been allowed to dissect the last of Kammerer 's nuptial pad specimens ( the rest had been destroyed some years earlier in a fire ) . |
| 12 | When he returned , after a slightly longer period than on the two previous occasions , Elisa had been persuaded to have a second cup of coffee . |
| 13 | By this time Mozart had been commissioned to write the first opera for the carnival in Milan the following year . |
| 14 | A total of 18 teams have been invited to form the Second Division , but none are existing members of the Anglo Two Counties Championship . |
| 15 | Around 20 industry chiefs , including David Sainsbury , chairman of J Sainsbury , and John Towers , managing director of Rover , have been summoned to attend the first of a series of ‘ round table ’ meetings on May 25th . |
| 16 | Cytoplasmic incompatibility bacteria have been shown to disrupt the first mitotic divisions in fertilized eggs of incompatible crosses in Nasonia , Drosophila simulans and Culex pipiens . |
| 17 | There are even some ( not you , of course ! ) who have been known to lick the first finger of the right hand and dip it into the bottom of the packet , so that those tiny remaining crumbs of crisp can be finished off . |