Example sentences of "[been] [adv] [verb] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stretford Bridge could have been little used after the first few months of the BCR 's life , when passengers presumably had to walk between there and Craven Arms — unless horse-drawn transport was provided along the road . |
| 2 | The canvases had been properly relined in the nineteenth century and only the ‘ Hosea ’ and ‘ Obadiah ’ required new linings . |
| 3 | Labour , for example , wants next year to throw £20 million at a ‘ reading recovery scheme ’ for which there would be absolutely no need had reading been properly taught in the first place ( something which requires little in the way of ‘ resources ’ ) . |
| 4 | The defendants argued that deformity would have occurred as a result of the injury , whether or not it had been properly diagnosed on the first trip to hospital . |
| 5 | In theory this process had already been widely applied in the first half of the century ( see The Age of Revolution , chapter 8 ) but in practice it was enormously reinforced after 1850 by the triumph of liberalism . |
| 6 | A decrease in the incidence of gastric carcinoma has been widely reported over the last three decades . |
| 7 | The mayorazgos had been bitterly criticized since the sixteenth century for encouraging laziness as well as being an injustice to younger children . |
| 8 | So many people are having very hard things demanded of them , and our prisons have been vastly reformed in the last 30 years or so . |
| 9 | According to this neo-populist view , which was outlined before the revolution and developed in the 1920s but has been vigorously reasserted in the last two decades , the spread of the market was not having the expected impact on peasant society . |
| 10 | THE Scottish Football League programme has been badly affected over the last couple of weeks , not only by the injuries which might reasonably be expected at this stage in a crowded season , but , unusually , by a flu virus which has caused havoc in the playing staffs of some of the Premier Division teams . |
| 11 | In those days magic in its raw state had been widely available , and had been eagerly utilised by the First Men in their war against the Gods . |
| 12 | Now , I think there 's probably a very nice parallel here , I ca n't help thinking it was probably a bit better , must have been better organised in the Second World War , but there 's going to be a erm special exhibition here is n't there , on memories of change on Oxford in the Second World War , and of course there were a great many extra people there too . |
| 13 | The road into Ribeira Brava has been much improved in the last few years . |
| 14 | The property has been electrically rewired within the last twelve months . |
| 15 | These had been directly elected for the first time in 1986 [ see p. 34305 ] . |
| 16 | Aspiration of a foreign body during use of an inhaler has been infrequently reported since the first report in 1981 . |
| 17 | The fine 14th century carved screen had been partly mutilated in the 18th century . |
| 18 | It has been repeatedly applied for the last 300 years , most recently in Thomas v. University of Bradford [ 1987 ] A.C. 795 . |
| 19 | The economic growth figures have already been marginally trimmed in the last month and may be revised further in a review that will be carried out just before before the publication of the World Economic Outlook on April 23 . |
| 20 | The rule has been slightly relaxed over the last few years , although only in relation to secondary legislation ; it has also been breached from time to time by a number of judges , not least by judicial free spirit , the former Master of the Rolls , Lord Denning . |
| 21 | Although intonation has been extensively studied in the last few decades , detailed descriptions of all but a handful of well-known languages are few , and the wide variety of theoretical assumptions which underlie them makes comparison difficult . |
| 22 | Employee relations manager George Piechniczek said : ‘ This sensitive issue has been extensively debated over the last few years and whilst the trade unions support the principle of protecting non-smokers at work , it has proved difficult to find a practical solution that satisfied all parties . ’ |
| 23 | The ground has been thoroughly explored over the last 250 years , which is one estimate of the span of art critical and art historical activity . |
| 24 | Most had been forced to sell their private woodlands , which had been reverently preserved since the eighteenth century . |
| 25 | The projected increase this year is a further 25% over 1991/92 prices , and since the Library 's budget this year is the same as last year , drastic cuts in subscriptions were essential to avoid further damaging our bookfund , which has already been substantially eroded over the last three years . |
| 26 | The GOVERNOR manufacturers have always moved with us , and , for example , the cost of providing a supply from a Transmission main has been substantially reduced in the last few years , by use of skid mounted governor units using small diameter connections from the pipeline . |
| 27 | In a very real way , I have found , it is the only place where things have been really understood for the first time . |
| 28 | The first is a practical issue : domain dictionaries are only of use if the domain has been accurately identified in the first place . |
| 29 | Firstly , specific dictionaries can only be relied upon if the domain of the test data has been accurately identified in the first place . |
| 30 | They have been well known since the eighteenth century , when Stukeley recorded a stone wall fronted by a ditch 15 m ( 49 ft ) wide . |