Example sentences of "[num] have been [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The practice of underwriting before the reforms of October 1986 has been described as a method of compensation for the high transactions costs of fixed commissions for large institutional clients . |
| 2 | The allocation for London in the current financial year 1991-92 has been cut by a further 8 per cent . |
| 3 | In West Germany rain with a pH of 4.0 has been recorded with a 2.8 in some of the ground water and even higher acidity has been recorded in Scandinavia and North America . |
| 4 | Mr. Karsten submitted that once the mandatory effect of article 12 has been relaxed by a finding under article 13 , either under sub-paragraph ( a ) or sub-paragraph ( b ) , this gives rise to the exercise of a discretion by the court . |
| 5 | A total of 43 of the victims had been separated from their families in childhood by state authorities , all but two had left school before completing their secondary education , and 43 had been charged with a criminal offence by the age of 15 . |
| 6 | Alexander III has been seen as a great lawyer pope : he made pronouncements , gave judgments and held a council for the whole Church in which the law was defined . |
| 7 | The Thatcher record since 1979 has been accompanied by a good deal of inflationary rhetoric from both supporters and critics . |
| 8 | The Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution has declared that the improvement in the quality of water in rivers and lakes in the 1960s and 70s has been followed by a decade of " small but real " deterioration . |
| 9 | The set-back of 1826 had been turned into a triumph . |
| 10 | It showed that subsection ( 2 ) of section 10 had been introduced as a government amendment and it was piloted through the committee stage by the then Minister of State for the Home Office , Mr Patrick Mayhew . |
| 11 | It has also encouraged the use of new financial control mechanisms such as external financing limits , which in Britain since 1979 have been used as a covert pay policy ( Heald and Steel 1981 : 15 ) . |
| 12 | The Thornton Gate Mineral sidings , which since 1963 have been used as a rail store , showing car 170 towing a train of rail bogies . |
| 13 | To some degree , the MDC has been placed in a particularly onerous position because of its having to compete for industrial and commercial investment with surrounding new towns and the local enterprise zone and Freeport . |
| 14 | The 600 has been designed with a Honda engine and Rover body . |
| 15 | According to accepted criteria , 11 patients were suitable for liver transplant assessment but only three had been referred to a transplant centre . |
| 16 | The other two had been trying to rescue him when all three had been killed by a single well-placed mortar bomb . |
| 17 | This was not , of course , just a Protestant response , although it benefited the Protestants that the great Catholic powers of France and Spain should tear one another apart ; their temporary truce in 1556 had been regarded as a significant reversal to the cause of reform , and when the war was renewed one of the leading English preachers , Christopher Goodman , was to urge the English not to fight for Spain , just as Knox urged the Scots not to fight for France . |
| 18 | And had the latter been the case , Churchill , almost his only substantial political ally of 1936 , would in 1940 have been confronted with a very awkward decision as to whether to intern his sovereign . |
| 19 | The sharp fall in marriage rates since the early 1970s has been accompanied by a rise in the proportion of cohabiting couples . |
| 20 | The expansion of the Virgin operation , the sharp influx of profits ( the loss of £900,000 reported at the beginning of 1981 had been turned into a profit of £1.5m by the beginning of 1982 ) , and the more aggressive attitude of performers to selling themselves had all put Virgin in a more competitive milieu and frame of mind . |
| 21 | Power which under Edward IV had been distributed through a network of royal servants would now gradually become concentrated in one man . |
| 22 | Power which under Edward IV had been distributed through a network of royal servants would now gradually become concentrated in one man . |
| 23 | The athletic arrogant and handsome monarch of 1977 had been replaced by a sick , befuddled man who had no idea what was happening . |
| 24 | The immediate cause of this putative legislation is the possibility that nearly 70 arthritic sufferers have died and nearly 4,000 have been injured as a result of taking the drug Opren . |
| 25 | The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine ( DFLP ) , in a statement issued in Beirut , said that the five had been intercepted after a DFLP attack on March 5 on an Israeli position in the western sector of the security zone . |
| 26 | The skill and determination of Second Coxswain/Mechanic John O'Donnell , of Arranmore 's Tyne class lifeboat William Luckin , during a difficult eight-hour service in winds of up to Force 9 has been recognised in a framed letter of Thanks from the Chairman of the Institution . |
| 27 | A LUFTWAFFE JUNKERS Ju 88 , shot down on August 13 , 1942 has been unearthed in a sugar beet field and still included some remains of the crew . |
| 28 | The convent , built between 1868 and 1907 has been used as a school , orphanage and convalescent home , but is in a derelict state and in full view of the main A55 Expressway into Wales . |
| 29 | A military spokesman said that a batch of 120 had been put on a ship to return to their units in Cagayan de Oro on the southern island of Mindanao . |
| 30 | The £1.5 million has been stayed pending a possible appeal . |