Example sentences of "[num] [verb] [been] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a tradition , and since 1911 the Indianapolis 500 has been rooted in American patriotism . |
| 2 | A reduced gall bladder emptying in response to a meal and to infusion of CCK-33 has been reported in such patients . |
| 3 | What sporting challenge first conquered in 1875 has been attempted by four thousand two hundred people and achieved by just 423 ? |
| 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 | Illegitimacy started to increase again in the 1960s ; later marriage since 1972 has been accompanied by higher , not lower , levels of illegitimacy . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | No less than 625 had been lost since 1945 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | A new series of tide tables and harbour guides for 1991 has been published by Boatswain Press to be sold in aid of the RNLI . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Compared to this Packard-Merlin , the Mk III had been raised in immaculate condition and its rocker covers still gleam with the original black paintwork . |
| 12 | In 1987 , 233 had been admitted at some time into the prison hospital . |
| 13 | Laub ; they believed that six had been hit in all from an estimated fifteen . |
| 14 | Some prisoners benefiting from the general amnesty of March 7 had been detained following earlier incidents in October 1987 and October 1988 . |
| 15 | In Brazil , despite some progress , half the remaining Awa-Guaja still flee contact with the whites and hundreds have been killed by local ranchers and loggers . |
| 16 | Their black pyjama uniform of the Seventies has been exchanged for grey-green jackets and trousers , but they still wear the krama , the chequered cotton scarves common to all Cambodian peasants . |
| 17 | All three had been assigned to Long Kesh Prison near Lisburn to await trial . |
| 18 | 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 ] . |
| 19 | But by Friday the three had been reduced to two . |
| 20 | The resolution said that the campaign of forced assimilation waged against the ethnic-Turkish minority since 1984 had been based on arbitrary and autocratic decisions which had flagrantly violated Bulgaria 's Constitution and international treaty commitments and had eroded national unity . |
| 21 | The three have been released pending forensic examinations of the drugs . |
| 22 | The striker joins recent recruits Paul Lemon and Michael Smith and all three have been signed on short-term contracts . |
| 23 | The striker joins recent recruits Paul Lemon and Michael Smith and all three have been signed on short-term contracts . |
| 24 | None of these lists , however , is wholly useful for the study of urban deaf populations , as all three have been designed for anthropological study of one sort or another , and include words such as spear and dung . |
| 25 | However , with their emphasis on rehabilitation of stock and on area-wide environmental improvements , GIAs had a relatively limited impact , and only about 5 per cent of grants since 1969 have been issued within these areas . |
| 26 | Channel 5 Everyone wants more choice , and Channel 5 has been driven by technological developments . |
| 27 | The crash of a Fanjet Falcon ( Registration N888AR ) north of Acapulco , Mexico , on 7 Aug 76 has been attributed by Mexican authorities to " erroneous report of position and failure to follow the authorised Llegada Norte ( north arrival ) procedure " . |
| 28 | The Skybolt crisis of December 1962 has been described by some as perhaps potentially more serious even than Suez , with the start of the meeting in Nassau proving the " angriest " of any Anglo-American postwar summit . |
| 29 | At least 1,600 people were reported on May 11 to have been arrested in northern Uganda following a military crackdown in areas north of Gulu in which scores of dissidents were said to have been killed . |
| 30 | The budget for the first half of 1918 had been estimated at 17.6 milliard roubles expenditure , but revenue at only 2.8 milliard . |