Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] in the [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Monopoly policy was comprehensively reassessed in the 1973 Fair Trading Act and has been amended in the 1980 Competition Act . |
| 2 | The Treasury says the decision to change the basis of treatment , announced by Peter Lilley , Trade and Industry Secretary , on February 13 , came too late to affect the current year 's figures but have been included in the 1993–94 estimates . |
| 3 | ‘ State-of-the-art ’ loader/levellers have been installed in the three kilns reducing the cycle time to 11 hours and all the steep tanks have been re-fitted with full ventilation . |
| 4 | Instead an eclectic approach has been taken , highlighting some of the more significant work that has been done in the five years since the first edition of this book was published . |
| 5 | He had been defeated in the 1990 primaries . |
| 6 | The two purposes of s.60 have been separated in the 1976 Act , 5.33 being concerned with the sale of liquor outwith the licence-holder 's premises . |
| 7 | The mutualities of their friendship have been incorporated in the two worlds in question as they figure in Amis 's novel , where unattractiveness is a category as definite as mumps and the unattractive are absolutely and permanently unattractive to one another . |
| 8 | He admitted that mistakes had been made in the five months since he personally took over the government , especially in the slow pace of privatisation . |
| 9 | Mr Yeltsin admitted that mistakes had been made in the five months since he personally took over the government , especially in the very slow pace of privatisation . |
| 10 | He had seen for himself the progress that had been made in the three days since he had last visited the laboratories . |
| 11 | Some US holdings have been sold in the six months and more stakes in UK companies capable of dividend growth in a difficult climate have been bought . |
| 12 | An era of ultranationalism had withered the fragile plant of democracy whose seed had been sown in the 1890 constitution , and the 1930s was interpreted as a period of aberration in Japan 's progress towards a democratic society . |
| 13 | James Briggs , of Stone House , Coniscliffe Road , Darlington , has been recognised in the 1991/1992 Shooting Times Conservation Awards . |
| 14 | Most of the original £300,000 for the Leeds and Liverpool Canal in 1777 had been raised in the two counties , but by 1800 37 per cent was held in London and the Midlands . |
| 15 | William Hutton , the son of a framework knitter , was sent to work at Derby 's silk mill in 1730 ; he later cursed his luck for having been born in the one city in the world where such could have been his fate . |
| 16 | It was decided that sufficient experience had been gained in the three years of presentations for Physical Education and Recreation modules to allow a review in this area . |
| 17 | 88 vagrants had been admitted in the two week period , most of them being men . |
| 18 | A number of measures have been taken in the 1980 Housing Act to help release more rented accommodation . |
| 19 | According to Indian Army statistics , at least 1,100 Indian soldiers and 2,200 Tamil fighters had been killed in the 32 months of fighting since the IPKF 's July 1987 arrival ; other estimates put the losses higher , and there had been an unknown number of civilian casualties . |
| 20 | More than 11,000 rabbits have been killed in the 12 months since the Shetlands council introduced the scheme , which is estimated to have saved acres of grass , cabbages and turnips . |
| 21 | His words were prophetic , for as I write about it now I realize that it has never been repeated in the thirty-five years that have passed since then . |
| 22 | But even without the blank cheques originally promised , enough has been achieved in the 22 months since the Socialists came to power to make sure French research will never be the same again . |
| 23 | A further 100 oil wells were reported to have been fired in the 24 hours prior to Bush 's ultimatum . |
| 24 | The 1944 Education Act laid a responsibility on LEAs to monitor the work of their schools and this has been strengthened in the 1988 Education Reform Act . |
| 25 | POLLING stations 83 and 84 for the village of Hath Qila lie down a dusty track that must be one of the few roads that has not been metalled in the five years that Mr Rajiv Gandhi has been cosseting his home constituency of Amethi . |
| 26 | President Ronald Reagan 's appointment of three conservative justices had created a five-four conservative majority which had resulted in the erosion of a number of liberal precedents , most notably the constitutional right of women to obtain abortions which had been established in the 1973 landmark decision Roe v. Wade [ for which see also below ] . |
| 27 | Mike 's inspiration has been redoubled in the six years since that announcement ; Beth , five , has been joined by Felicity , 18 months . |