Example sentences of "[num] had been [verb] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Comprehensive Environmental Response , Compensation and Liability Act ( CERCLA ) legislation of 1980 ( ‘ Superfund ’ ) requires the cleaning up of the worst landfill sites , of which some 800 had been identified by the Environmental Protection Agency by 1986 ( Foresman 1986 ) . |
| 2 | He replaced Sylvestre Nsanzimana whose appointment in October 1991 had been rejected by the majority of opposition parties [ see p. 38662 ] . |
| 3 | On Oct. 11 Svein Urdal resigned as chief of intelligence after it was revealed that 10 out of some 100 Palestinian asylum seekers who arrived in Norway in late 1990 and early 1991 had been interviewed by the Israeli security service Mossad at the request of Norwegian police . |
| 4 | The three had been arrested by the military on Aug. 17 charged with fly-posting photographs of Aristide . |
| 5 | The affairs of the sub-continent since 1600 had been administered by the East India Company from its headquarters in Leadenhall Street in the City of London , but after 1784 , a Cabinet Committee , usually known as the Board of Control , gradually took over various administrative functions from the Company . |
| 6 | The change to a real coalition in 1916 had been occasioned by the need to give Lloyd George a freer hand as much as by concern for structures . |
| 7 | The spokesman denied Channel 4 had been forced by the controversy to cut the most provocative cartoons . |
| 8 | The extension of Soviet control over Eastern Europe in the early post-war period is conventionally described by Soviet diplomatic historians as the ‘ establishment of international relations of a new type ’ , cemented by a network of bilateral alliances of which thirty-five had been concluded by the late 1940s . |
| 9 | The teds of the fifties had been replaced by the mods , who at first had been a very exclusive , almost secret , underground working class movement . |
| 10 | Unionist publications also devoted much attention to Asquith 's Honours Lists , and in October 1912 Our Flag listed thirty-nine " Radical Plutocrats " , of which twenty-three had been ennobled by the Liberals — " so far " . |
| 11 | In 1988 it was calculated that over £16 billion had been spent by the Authority over the previous 30 years , about half provided by the Department of Energy or its predecessors . |
| 12 | The Great Reform Act of 1832 had been followed by the Municipal Corporations Act 1835 ; the extensions of the franchise in 1867 and 1894 were accompanied by further discussions of local government reform . |
| 13 | Although silent on the point , Article 613 had been interpreted by the German Federal Labour Court ( BAG ) as permitting the employee to object to the transfer of the contract to the transferee , in which case the contract continued with the transferor ( see BAG AP No 1 on Article 613 of the BGB and BAG AP No 55 on Article 613 of the BGB ) . |
| 14 | The deadline of Dec. 15 had been set by the UN after Cristiani had tried to delay a purge of senior military figures [ see p. 39137 ] . |
| 15 | Under the US 1986 Comprehensive Anti-Apartheid Act , five conditions had to be met for the lifting of sanctions , of which only two had been met by the time of de Klerk 's visit ( entering into negotiations with black representatives and lifting the ban on democratic parties ) . |
| 16 | Also in April 1991 the two main opposition leaders , Aung San Suu Kyi and Gen. ( retd ) Tin U ( respectively general secretary and chair of the NLD ) were removed from the party ; the two had been detained by the military since mid-1989 . |
| 17 | Further the test set out in Hitchcock v WB and FEB ( 1952 ) 2 QB 561 had been replaced by the test in Re W which set out all that any judge needed to do in making a decision . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , by early December Jordan had received firm commitments for some US$500,000,000 in aid ( from Canada , China , France , Germany , Japan , South Korea , the Netherlands and Taiwan ) ; in addition , a further US$12,600 million had been pledged by the European Communities ( EC ) and the Gulf financial crisis co-ordination group to the three so-called " front-line states " , Jordan , Egypt and Turkey . |
| 19 | Only around Rbs18,500 million out of a required Rbs54,000 million had been contributed by the republics in the first quarter of the year [ for passage in January of 1991 union budget see p. 37970 ] . |
| 20 | The ten were chosen from more than 260 , and of those ten , four had been produced by the Johnstons — one at School , one by the Johnston Company , one at Altrincham Garrick , and one at Adswood Community Centre . |
| 21 | Over large stretches of northern England not one acre in a hundred had been shaped by the Georgian planners . |
| 22 | They were also dismayed that the popular Labour Party of the sixties had been hijacked by the greedy unions . |
| 23 | Over 900,000 of the province 's population of 9,000,000 had been displaced by the war , and a further 205,737 were categorized as " affected " by the emergency . |