Example sentences of "been [verb] [prep] [num] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The proposal for a new trading zone and for regional economic co-operation had first been mooted in 1989 by Turkey , which was responsible for convening this meeting . |
| 2 | Their goodness has helped to make up the huge amount of goodness which has been accumulating for thousands of years and which we call the Created God . ’ |
| 3 | The capacity of the stadium has been limited to 17,000 with Dublin being allocated 10,000 , 5,000 to Wexford and the remainder set aside for neutrals . |
| 4 | Logging in the region has been halted since 1990 by court actions to protect the habitat of the northern spotted owl , leading to thousands of job losses [ see EDs 70 ; passim ] . |
| 5 | When FDA clearance comes through the final product in a portfolio of basic food ingredients will be in place — promising the transformation of what has long been regarded as one of Britain 's most boring businesses into a world beater . |
| 6 | Shevardnadze ( appointed in 1985 — see p. 33738 ) had been regarded as one of Gorbachev 's closest allies and personal friends in the leadership . |
| 7 | All age determinations have been normalized to -25 in accordance with international convention . |
| 8 | The first glass works in south Yorkshire had been erected in 1632 at Glasshouse Green , Wentworth , on the estate of Sir Thomas Wentworth , the great Earl of Strafford , but it had ceased production before the Civil War . |
| 9 | The plot boundaries defining the crofts on which these houses stood also changed , although the early impression of great change and lack of order has now been revised to one of combination and division of consistent units . |
| 10 | By contrast , alcohol has been enjoyed for thousands of years and in moderate quantities is harmless . |
| 11 | David , 38 , and willowy blonde Serena have been picked from hundreds of hopefuls to star in Diana : Her True Story . |
| 12 | The case of Timothy Evans , however , who had been hanged in 1950 after conviction for murder partly on the evidence of John Christie , also convicted and executed for murder three years later , had convinced him that mistakes could occur . |
| 13 | On the other hand , there is no doubt that the USM 's distinct identity has been eroded since 1990 by convergence in the regulation and cost of joining the Official List and the USM . |
| 14 | It did , however , come to light some seven years later that a Dr Bayley , a professor at Oxford , had been approached by one of Dudley 's servants shortly before Amy 's death . |
| 15 | But that has been happening for hundreds of years . |
| 16 | But that has been happening for hundreds of years . |
| 17 | It 's been happening for hundreds of years . |
| 18 | A part of this is personal : the shadow of Labour 's punitive taxation plans has been lifted from thousands of households . |
| 19 | He may have been missed on 96 by Morris , low at mid-wicket ; Morris may have decided that sections of the crowd would riot if he held it . |
| 20 | Perhaps it is the view from beneath an archway of the castle , which takes in the parish church , said to have been built in 1363 by John of Gaunt himself . |
| 21 | An earlier bridge on this site , the Judith Bridge , had been built in 1170 by Vladislav II but was destroyed by flood in 1342 . |
| 22 | She said she had been threatened with hundreds of pickets if she did not reinstate Miss Owen . |
| 23 | That had been threatened in 1832 in order to secure the passing of the Reform Bill . |
| 24 | The rheidity of ice is a few weeks , that of salt about a year , but igneous rocks will only exhibit rheid flow after a stress has been applied for hundreds of years , in the case of deeply buried rocks subject to elevated temperatures , or tens of thousands of years for rocks at the surface . |
| 25 | The first such claims had been made in 1987 by Ivan Boesky , a United States arbitrageur , during federal investigations into allegations of insider dealing for which he was subsequently imprisoned [ see p. 36017 ] . |
| 26 | Apart from these , a small and inadequate map had been made in 1772 by T. Tinker , junior , called A Plan of Manchester & Salford . |
| 27 | The case in question had been argued as one of relevance of evidence . |
| 28 | Gateways were opening up here in Salt Lake , and things would be coming through the like of which had not been seen for thousands of years . |
| 29 | Her face has been seen on millions of TV screens in the chocolate advert , where she lies in a bath calmly eating a Flake . |
| 30 | Until recently the plates were on long-term loan to the North Carolina Museum of Art , Raleigh , having been lent in 1956 by collector and supporter of the North Carolina Museum , Robert Humber who purchased them in 1938 . |