Example sentences of "been [verb] [prep] [num] [prep] [noun prp] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Shevardnadze ( appointed in 1985 — see p. 33738 ) had been regarded as one of Gorbachev 's closest allies and personal friends in the leadership . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | An earlier bridge on this site , the Judith Bridge , had been built in 1170 by Vladislav II but was destroyed by flood in 1342 . |
| 9 | 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 ] . |
| 10 | Apart from these , a small and inadequate map had been made in 1772 by T. Tinker , junior , called A Plan of Manchester & Salford . |
| 11 | Cliff 's tally of 20 League goals in 1963–64 , when he was joint-top scorer with Peter Burridge , has only been exceeded since 1961 by Mark Bright in 1988 and Ian Wright in 1989 , but Cliff again headed our list of scorers in Division Two in 1964–65 with 11 more goals , and he did so in spite of spending several games at centre-half . |
| 12 | A further major goods station had been opened in 1876 at La Plaine Saint-Denis to supplement the activities of the others and by 1904 still another was required at Gennevilliers . |
| 13 | There had been profiles of him that suggested that he was a jogger who had been bitten by one of Alex ‘ Down Sir ’ Snell 's pit-bulls . |
| 14 | Finally , anonymised records have not been produced before 1991 in Great Britain . |
| 15 | Chloroform had already been employed by Dr James Simpson , Professor of obstetrics at the University of Glasgow ; ether had first been used in 1846 by Dr Robert Liston for an operation at University College Hospital in London . |
| 16 | Cheverel Manor , in one of her Scenes of Clerical Life , has been transformed in 1788 by Sir Christopher Cheverel , from a plain brick family mansion into a Gothic manor house , thus anticipating ( in George Eliot 's view ) ‘ that general reaction from the insipid imitation of the Palladian style ’ . |
| 17 | In the Shatt al-Arab , Iran had been accommodated in 1975 by Iraq 's acceptance of the thalweg principle as applicable throughout the length of the waterway ( and not in part only , as under the provisions of Constantinople ( see below ) in 1913 and the treaty negotiated between the two countries in 1937 ) . |
| 18 | The islands deal has been approved by two of Japan 's most influential businessmen , Gaishi Hiraiwa , chairman of the Keidanren ( Federation of Economic Organisations ) , and Rokuro Ishikawa , chairman of the Japan Chamber of Commerce . |
| 19 | Churchward was determined to provide Swindon works with the best and most modern plant and machinery possible , the works having been founded in 1842 by Brunel and ( Sir ) Daniel Gooch [ q.v . ] . |
| 20 | The theatre was built on the site of the old church of Santa Maria della Scala which had been founded in 1381 by Beatrice della Scala , wife of Bernabo Visconti . |
| 21 | The college had been founded in 1823 by George Birkbeck as a ‘ Mechanics ' Institute ’ , enshrining those virtues of self-improvement and industry which corresponded with the best qualities in the character of William Joyce . |
| 22 | Ridley also confirmed that the DTI had been contacted in 1988 by SE and WS , but that " on the information available at the time " it had been decided that export licences were not required . |
| 23 | Rebuilt to full flying condition began in 1987 when Nick Grace , of Spitfire ML407 fame , brought the Mk XI back from Holland , where it had been displayed since 1960 at Overloon . |
| 24 | ‘ It appears there 'd been a big row and a parting of the ways before my agent tracked them down , but my premise was right : they 'd been staying with one of Svend 's college friends at his parents ’ apartment on the outskirts of the city . |
| 25 | Along with Maggie Hambling , Paula Rego and Mali Morris , Roxy Walsh has been ranked as one of Britain 's top ten women artists by Sister Wendy Beckett . |
| 26 | She had been born in 1688 in Marston St. Lawrence , and had married Richard Jennens of Mollington , Oxfordshire , in 1708 [ Baker , 1 , 720 ] . |
| 27 | My father 's mother had been born in 1862 in Wroxton , three miles north of Banbury . |
| 28 | Such a strategy underpinned the demonstration project which had been running since 1977 in Eindhoven and Rijswijk . |
| 29 | What dreadful news it is that a lethal , new form of algae pollution has been found in one of Scotland 's best known lochs , lovely Loch Awe in Argyll . |
| 30 | The style of writing would have identified the text even if the page had not been marked as one of Cecil Hunter-Blair 's columns for the paper . |