Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] [been] [verb] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What sporting challenge first conquered in 1875 has been attempted by four thousand two hundred people and achieved by just 423 ? |
| 2 | But that has been happening for hundreds of years . |
| 3 | But that has been happening for hundreds of years . |
| 4 | The campaign to bring Blair Peach 's murderer to justice and the demand for a full public inquiry into the events of ‘ 79 has been mounted for nine and a half years by the Friends of Blair Peach Committee . |
| 5 | This has been highlighted in two lines of decisions in road traffic cases where the plaintiffs ' damages have been reduced , even though they in no way caused or contributed to the accidents in which they were injured . |
| 6 | This has been locked with seven locks since 1867 and contains the coronation jewels from the 14C . |
| 7 | However , even buyers tend to adopt some form of force majeure clause ( often a mutual one benefiting both parties ) and this has been included in cl 10.1 of Precedent 2 . |
| 8 | This has been attempted in two distinct phases , the first from 1962–69 with the initial development of the ‘ Entebbe ’ materials and the second from 1970 onwards with its adaptation and implementation through the activities of the West African Regional Mathematics Programme ( WARMP ) and the East African Regional Mathematics Programme . |
| 9 | For convenience , the reciprocal has been multiplied by 103 ; we work to six decimal places on the left , three on the right . |
| 10 | This had been floated in 1948 by the clothing establishment as a discreet gentleman 's fashion harking back to the golden days before ‘ socialism and formica ’ , but had been quickly coopted and camped up by the gay underground ; the more exaggerated aspects of this style caught the first Edwardians ' eye and , together with the Western Look that pervaded their favourite culture , American cowboy films , it formed the first youth style proper . |
| 11 | A placing in which selected shareholders ( usually investing institutions ) are invited to buy up to 15 million ( this had been limited to 3 million until 1986 ) of additional equity . |
| 12 | This had been started in 1888 and progressively abandoned from 1950 . |
| 13 | This had been reduced to 24 hours from 48 based on the 1989 evaluations and seemed to be just about right . |
| 14 | Thirty-one had been discharged by 1983 but with six of these patients having been transferred to a general hospital for physical illness and having subsequently died . |
| 15 | No less than 625 had been lost since 1945 . |
| 16 | Others have lessons in offices and storerooms and sixth form classes like this have been increased from 10 to 18 . |
| 17 | More than 800 have been sold since 1964 — equivalent to one every seven working days — with 84 per cent going for export , sixty per cent of the North American market . |
| 18 | A SOC Commerce Ministry official said in an interview on March 12 that Soviet economic aid to Cambodia for 1991 had been reduced by 80 per cent to about US$170,000,000 . |
| 19 | The PVO increased its show of strength , choosing as a special focus the little town of Tantabin , 40 miles from Rangoon , where the first BNA action against the Japanese had been staged in 1945 . |
| 20 | The First World " War interrupted the process , but it is clear that much had been done by 1914 . |
| 21 | How many craters greater than 1 km diameter are likely to have been produced on 10 6 square kilometres on the lunar surface between 2000 Ma and 1000 Ma ago ? |
| 22 | The present building is supposed to have been erected in 1333 , when the church was made collegiate by Sir John de Heslerton and housed six chaplains and three clerks . |
| 23 | By Elizabethan times it was familiar in every garden , and frequently referred to in records of the 13th and 14th centuries , although officially it is not supposed to have been introduced until 1573 . |
| 24 | All three had been convicted in 1986 of the 1985 murder of the Belau President , Haruo Remeliik but had been freed on appeal [ see pp. 33995-96 ; 35003 ; 35648 ] . |
| 25 | But by Friday the three had been reduced to two . |
| 26 | At the time of the preliminary naval bombardment the Turks had only two divisions at the Dardanelles ; these had been raised to four when the naval attack began and six by the time Hamilton made his first landings , giving the defenders a numerical superiority of six to five divisions . |
| 27 | Earlier in August another UK national had been sentenced to seven years ' imprisonment on similar charges , in that case of entering from Kuwait [ see p. 39069 ] . |
| 28 | These have been analysed by one of the authors , and the results are reproduced in Figure 1 . |
| 29 | Assume that these have been assessed at 0.6 and 0.4 . |
| 30 | Now these have been reduced to five . |