Example sentences of "been [verb] in the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Defence Ministry announced on July 16 that 71 members of the armed forces had been dismissed in the last year for human rights abuses and drug trafficking . |
| 2 | Despite a good number of studies having been undertaken in the first half of the century it was not until the late 1950s that the particular decrements in performance of sleepy subjects were established . |
| 3 | It is true that certain measures of nationalisation had been undertaken in the first months of Soviet government — for example , the Merchant Marine had been taken over in January 1918 and the sugar industry nationalised in May of that year — but the main efforts had been directed towards a stabilisation and regularisation of the tottering economy on the existing basis of ownership . |
| 4 | At no. 6 lived Anne Knight , a widow born in Horningsham , Wilts. , where , by coincidence , a number of Titfords had been baptised in the mid-17th century ; no. 8 contained the Tomlinson family , a hay salesman 's bookkeeper from Norwich ; George Childs at no. 10 described himself grandly as a ‘ Landscape Painter ’ , and at no. 14 a lady called Mary Archer was in business as a private lodging-house keeper , assisted by Eliza Wade , her 17-year-old servant from Stepney . |
| 5 | The alternative to the Protocols as a base to the conspiracy theory was the revival of the French counter-revolutionary tradition , which had been developed in the first articles in the ‘ Cause of World Unrest ’ disclosures in the Morning Post in July 1920 , and was handed down to posterity in more permanent form in Nesta Webster 's version of world history . |
| 6 | Also , many new methods for analysing maps have been developed in the last decade and the UK is a world leader in this field of spatial statistics . |
| 7 | He hated untidiness and waste ; he thought that babies who threw things from their cradles should be punished , and children who would n't eat their food should be starved until they ate what they had been given in the first place . ’ |
| 8 | On the other they disapproved of some of the impediments which had been erected in the twentieth century : the requirements of a lis inter partes and a superadded duty to act judicially were said to be false constraints . |
| 9 | It had been erected in the second half of the second century to house c number of specialist kilns and furnaces , but clearly overlay the remains of earlier bonfire kilns and spreads of potters ' clay . |
| 10 | Walpole House , which had been erected in the sixteenth century , was altered with a new front elevation , in 1730 , and at about the same time two other houses were knocked into one to become Strawberry House . |
| 11 | This collection had been formed in the second half of the eighteenth century by John Hunter who was largely responsible for raising surgery from a craft to a profession in England , and was the greatest anatomist and physiologist of his day . |
| 12 | Coel and that the Ayrshire legend has been mis-placed in the 8th century ; it is possible also that Coilus was a descendant of Coel ; we will never know . |
| 13 | Sixteen houses have been completed in the first phase of a re-development scheme which will eventually remove all the 1960s-built flats . |
| 14 | ‘ I was always proud to play for my country and I 'm baffled why I should have been omitted in the first place , for the linesman incident was trivial . |
| 15 | Reports of military gains by the Cambodian resistance have almost certainly been exaggerated in the last week , and estimations by the Thai and Chinese military intelligence agencies of the number of Vietnamese troops supposedly left behind in Cambodia appear little more than fanciful . |
| 16 | It had been included in the first place On the insistence of the republicans , who refused to march without it . |
| 17 | ‘ How many patients with a diagnosis of schizophrenia have been discharged in the last year to a hostel or shelter rather than to a home of their own ? ’ |
| 18 | Hundreds of thousands of small , sometimes hidden , cameras have been installed in the last decade , mainly to detect crime or monitor traffic . |
| 19 | In the final five minutes Titterton and Jones also went after been booked in the first half . |
| 20 | After it had been superseded in the seventeenth century , by the Great North Road , which runs to the east of it through more inhabited country , Sewestern Lane became a recognised route by which cattle from Scotland and the North of England reached the Midland pastures and London : hence its later name of The Drift . |
| 21 | Civil liberties have also been eroded in the last decade or more by government efforts to suppress media comment , criticism and reporting in cases such as the Spycatcher , Ponting and Tisdall affairs . |
| 22 | Jitters had been wounded in the first landing , in the shoulder . |
| 23 | Rauschning was an ex-Prussian cadet who had been wounded in the First World War . |
| 24 | Well , no what I 'm , what I 'm denying is I 'm questioning your assertion on what 's been happening in the last couple of weeks that we should react to that on a pa on er er report that has n't been released , right ? |
| 25 | This has been done in the first instance through joint ventures with Ladbrokes and Bass respectively , though Horizon also owned and operated hotels in its own name . |
| 26 | The report was able to recount what had been done in the first year of effort of the newly-organised national campaign for emancipation but to stress continuity through reliance on the circulation of pamphlets by Wilberforce and Clarkson ; reformers were ‘ thus enabled to proceed under the conduct of the same veteran Champions who had first led the battle against the African Slave Trade and who had pursued it to its final extinction ’ . |
| 27 | Perhaps radio is now fitted inside the crash helmets , I never understood why this could not have been done in the first place , along the lines of the radios issued to policemen or the earphones that , thank God , are popular with those who can not live without constant noise . |
| 28 | Graham Rowell was only concerned with how he was going to treat a condition or an injury ; he said it was n't his job to worry about how it could have been prevented in the first place . ’ |
| 29 | Exminster and Digby had been built in the nineteenth century as the County and City lunatic asylums for Devon and Exeter . |
| 30 | But Mesopotamia and Egypt still lived in a world which had been built in the second millennium upon the power of monarchy — the divinely protected monarchy of Mesopotamia and the divine monarchy of Egypt . |