Example sentences of "[vb past] been [vb pp] in [num] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If it had been built in one go , ’ he claimed , demonstrating with a model and bucket of clay , ‘ it would have fallen over . ’ |
| 2 | Usually on a Friday afternoon I would retreat from the busy main office to my own private one which had been constructed in one corner of the large open room . |
| 3 | Croatia was successfully regaining villages in Western Slavonia , it was reported on Dec. 20 , though 70 soldiers had been killed in one attempt to retake an area south of Zagreb . |
| 4 | Implicit within the ruling was the concept that once an abortion restriction had been upheld in one state , other states could implement it , an interpretation which effectively made it more difficult to challenge the imposition by individual states of restrictions as long as they were within the guidelines established by the Court 's ruling in June 1992 on Roe v. Wade [ see p. 38954 ] . |
| 5 | According to the Economist of July 27 , more than 1,000 alleged terrorists , mostly PPP activists , had been arrested in one district of Sind alone . |
| 6 | I noticed that my case of drugs had been opened in one corner of the room , but still , it was a pitiful supply . |
| 7 | It was by Roland Summit , a child psychiatrist based in California in the United States , who had been described in one newspaper article as being discredited . |
| 8 | Navarro Wolff declared AD/M-19 to be in a state of emergency and it was reported that its leaders had been concentrated in one place to resist arrest . |
| 9 | A bed had been put in one corner . |
| 10 | In all , it was estimated that some 110 bills — all of which sought to restrict access to abortion to some degree — had been introduced in 47 state legislatures since July 1989 . |