Example sentences of "have been [verb] [adj] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | UNEMPLOYED Derek Auld has been made redundant three times in the last three years . |
| 2 | The closure has been confirmed twenty four hours after British Coal announced the pit was to go into the review procedure and revealed that it 's lost more than six million pounds in the last six months . |
| 3 | The proposed closure has been confirmed twenty four hours after British Coal announced the pit was to go into the review procedure and it was revealed that it had lost more than six million pounds in the last six months . |
| 4 | Britain has been allocated 1.2 billion ecus ( £830m ) of ERDF money for 1988–91 . |
| 5 | But what he has done has been to study twenty one species of freshwater molluscs — that means snails , clams , things of that kind from the Lake Tocarno region of Africa . |
| 6 | Even the S MP syllabus , which is probably quite well known , most schools in Sussex deal a little bit with the S MP New Maths Syllabus , which has been going twenty thirty years now , but even that was originally written for O-level , and then a version for C S E was introduced . |
| 7 | The family of a victim of the Lockerbie disaster has been awarded five million pounds in damages . |
| 8 | A woman sacked by the RAF because she became pregnant has been awarded twenty-two thousand pounds compensation . |
| 9 | A former vice chairman of governors at a school for disturbed children has been fined nine hundred pounds for importing pornographic material . |
| 10 | A dog breeder has been fined eight hundred pounds for causing a noise nuisance . |
| 11 | A chemicals company has been fined eight thousand pounds after admitting that a fire which destroyed its factory was started when a worker used a blowlamp to unblock a pipe . |
| 12 | A company has been fined two thousand pounds for allowing almost fifty gallons of diesel fuel to pollute a river . |
| 13 | An airman who helped destroy evidence after a twenty million pound arson attack has been fined fifteen hundred pounds . |
| 14 | The Marquess of Blandford has been fined one thousand pounds for not paying taxi fares . |
| 15 | Meanwhile , the Bishop has been fined three hundred pounds by Forest of Dean Magistrates for a speeding offence . |
| 16 | This year alone he 'd been arrested twenty three times . |
| 17 | I had , I had a letter the other day saying that I 'd been paying thirty nine pounds , fifty a week to live on , but I 've been entitled to fifty five pound something for low income support so are they gon na backdate all that and then get their |
| 18 | Although its size is not yet known , suggestions have been made that it was larger than a normal auxiliary fort and may have accommodated either a vexillation , possibly of Legio IX , whose tile-works may have been situated some 8 km ( 5 miles ) south of Carlisle at Scalesceugh , ( though the stamped tiles from there may belong to a slightly later period ) , or the Ala Petriana before its transfer to Stanwix over the river . |
| 19 | Having been started some ten years earlier , they were substantially complete by the early 1680s . |
| 20 | It is believed to have been carved some eight centuries ago . |
| 21 | The highly specialised craft of lacquer painting and decoration seems to have been invented several thousand years ago in China , where the lacquer tree grows . |
| 22 | His elder brother , Richard , lived nearby with his wife and young daughter , and like his father worked as a groom , possibly at nearby Waplington Hall , a large , gabled house that had been built some thirty years earlier . |
| 23 | But if it had been an unusually intelligent bird — an escaped mynah bird , perhaps , or a parrot that had been blown several thousand miles off course by very strong winds — ; it would have thought : |
| 24 | Once the last post had been played two thousand eyes closed , as soldiers under canvas for the first time tried to sleep . |
| 25 | Some people had been made redundant four times , and , what was worse , they were almost proud of it . ’ |
| 26 | The presidential ceasefire commission collapsed when its secretary resigned on Aug. 26 after stating that the Aug. 7 ceasefire had been breached some 200 times and that over 70 people had been killed . |
| 27 | Government reports on Oct. 5 claimed that the Hezb-i-Islami forces had been pushed some 30 km outside the city . |
| 28 | if Central South had been running twenty five years ago our sport would have been dominated by the name of one man … jockey Terry Biddlecombe one of Gloucestershire 's most famous and favourite of sporting sons … |
| 29 | Deep Level , he found , entered the vein after 120 fathoms , and had been taken south-easterly 30 fathoms beyond the " old works " — and was yielding a little ore . |
| 30 | Whereas Greater London had been losing 90 000 people a year at the beginning of the 1970s ( figure 8.3 ) , its population is estimated actually to have grown between 1983 and 1986 , reaching a level of 6.78 million in 1986 . |