Example sentences of "have [be] [vb pp] [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 | The family of a victim of the Lockerbie disaster has been awarded five million pounds in damages . |
| 6 | A woman sacked by the RAF because she became pregnant has been awarded twenty-two thousand pounds compensation . |
| 7 | A former vice chairman of governors at a school for disturbed children has been fined nine hundred pounds for importing pornographic material . |
| 8 | A dog breeder has been fined eight hundred pounds for causing a noise nuisance . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | A company has been fined two thousand pounds for allowing almost fifty gallons of diesel fuel to pollute a river . |
| 11 | An airman who helped destroy evidence after a twenty million pound arson attack has been fined fifteen hundred pounds . |
| 12 | The Marquess of Blandford has been fined one thousand pounds for not paying taxi fares . |
| 13 | Meanwhile , the Bishop has been fined three hundred pounds by Forest of Dean Magistrates for a speeding offence . |
| 14 | This year alone he 'd been arrested twenty three times . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Having been started some ten years earlier , they were substantially complete by the early 1680s . |
| 17 | It is believed to have been carved some eight centuries ago . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 : |
| 21 | Once the last post had been played two thousand eyes closed , as soldiers under canvas for the first time tried to sleep . |
| 22 | Some people had been made redundant four times , and , what was worse , they were almost proud of it . ’ |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Government reports on Oct. 5 claimed that the Hezb-i-Islami forces had been pushed some 30 km outside the city . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The court heard many potential eye witnesses in the pub had been imtimated and one man who did give evidence claimed a hit man had been paid twenty thousand pounds to kill him . |
| 27 | I 've often wish 'd , for the honour of our Sex , that these Subjects had been exhausted seventeen hundred years ago ; but am afraid that seventeen hundred years hence , we shall have the same false Corydon 's , and the same complaining Sylvia 's . |
| 28 | ‘ Drawing 1-1 up there with a team of kids when you 've been spanked 5-0 four days earlier made them believe they could finish the job at home . ’ |
| 29 | Six miners have been trapped two thousand feet underground at Blisthorpe Colliery in Nottinghamshire . |
| 30 | Yes , as you pointed out we have been offered one hundred percent nomination rights to er , these equity share units the er , partners which members have shows as erm er the Environment Trust are a charitable trust , they 're not they 're developers , they 're not speculative developers . |