Example sentences of "[num] have [adv] been [verb] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was also known that the Kharg-5 had twice been damaged by Iraqi missiles in the Gulf during the Iran-Iraq war . |
| 2 | The unsatisfactory state of the law resulting from the Infants ' Relief Act 1874 has now been remedied by the Minors ' Contracts Act 1987 , which is based upon recommendations of the Law Commission . |
| 3 | The three had frequently been accused by Israel of being leaders of the intifada . |
| 4 | Football in the '90s has inevitably been determined by events off the pitch and the rivalry between Hibs and Hearts has echoed those tunes . |
| 5 | The period since 1970 has also been characterised by three major bouts of house price inflation which have increased average house prices by over 600% . |
| 6 | The aerial battles of World War One have always been shadowed by the dogfights of World War Two . |
| 7 | Research in assessment IX has just been published by the Assessment Group of the Education Division . |
| 8 | Held , allowing the appeal , that the absence from the Children Act 1989 of any express provision that applications be made either inter partes or ex parte connoted the availability of either course in appropriate circumstances ; that on a true construction the court 's powers conferred by the Act of 1989 had not been abrogated by the Family Proceedings Rules 1991 so that rule 4.4(4) did not preclude the making of an ex parte application for a residence order , although normally applications should be made inter partes ; that the judge therefore had jurisdiction to make such an order and , under section 11(7) of the Act , to attach such directions as might be appropriate ; and that , accordingly , in the exceptional circumstances , the court would make an interim residence order to which directions would be attached for the return of the child to the former matrimonial home and for all the children to remain in the father 's care until the inter partes hearing of the father 's applications ( post , pp. 116B , D–E , F , G–H , 117A–E , F–H ) . |
| 9 | Political ties between England and Gascony in the years before 1453 also had economic implications , because although the two had originally been linked by dynastic chance , their economies could complement each other . |
| 10 | When Keynes 's memorandum was discussed in Cabinet in February 1946 , defence expenditure for 1946/7 had already been cut by 14 per cent . |
| 11 | A reproduction of a pamphlet first published in 1910 has recently been re-issued by Huntingdon Local History Society . |
| 12 | Although the North Korean government officially denied it , representatives of the Taiwanese Importers ' and Exporters ' Association claimed that arrangements for a planned visit in April 1990 had already been confirmed by North Korea . |
| 13 | Amendments to the Montreal Protocol on protecting the ozone layer that were agreed in London in 1990 have finally been ratified by the required 20 countries and will come into force in August . |