Example sentences of "has been [verb] [adv] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the term ‘ untrainable ’ may still be found in official classifications of mental handicap to describe the profoundly handicapped , it has been recognised officially since 1971 that no child is ineducable . |
| 2 | Some of the most significant work of industrial archaeology has been done here since 1959 , and the industrial buildings and relics of the district are in the hands of the Ironbridge Gorge Museum ( q.v . ) . |
| 3 | The reserve has been extended eastwards by 55,000 hectares to the River Usumancinta on the Guatemalan border . |
| 4 | As a result , output has been revised upwards by 0.2 per cent in the first two quarters and 0.3 per cent in the third , and the trend throughout 1992 now looks even flatter than before . |
| 5 | Yet Berlin is also where the new Europe of old ideals has been born again in 1989 . |
| 6 | The direct tram service between Fleetwood and Blackpool has been maintained continuously since 1898 , with the single exception of winter 1963/4 when buses ran between Blackpool and Cleveleys . |
| 7 | Jean has been teaching there for 24 years . |
| 8 | First novel by one of the Best of Young British Novelists of 1983 who has been selected again in 1993 . |
| 9 | Close the two lapels , and continuing the old traditional method , bind firmly but not too tightly with raffia — you can buy this as ‘ bass ’ from a sundries shop — that has been prepared previously into 18 inch ( 45cm ) lengths and well soaked to make it soft and pliable . |
| 10 | The room has some striking windows bearing the stained glass coats of arms of the Swiss cantons , and can be visited when the district court , which has been meeting there since 1876 , is not in session . |
| 11 | The export department of Stoddard Carpets has been operating successfully for 26 years . |
| 12 | Although the TEC has been operating only since 1 April this year , Roy Knott and his team have shown that they are dedicated to the employment training future for Shropshire . |
| 13 | This technique has been discovered independently by two different groups of birds — the weaverbirds of Africa which are closely related to the European sparrow , and the icterids of the Americas which include such birds as the caciques and the oropendolas . |
| 14 | Sarah Clarke , who has been burgled twice in one year , also feels much more vulnerable . |
| 15 | He has been helped there by two years under the expert tuition of All Black Wayne Shelford . |
| 16 | A red flood alert has been issued tonight for one of the region 's rivers . |
| 17 | The park has been used regularly for 30 years by Yorkshire County Cricket Club and it is also home to Middlesbrough rugby and cricket clubs . |
| 18 | He is part of a multidisciplinary team which has been working together since 1984 . |
| 19 | The Pavlova leather works in Abingdon has been working solidly since 1917 . |
| 20 | The new computerised processes have meant that the lead time in certain product areas has been shortened dramatically from eight weeks to 42 h . |
| 21 | The river has been cutting downwards for five million years and more , and in that time it has laid bare rocks spanning half of the earth 's history . |
| 22 | The dome of Santiaguito in Guatemala has been growing ever since 1922 , and was still growing at the time of writing . |
| 23 | The Church test therefore appears to be broad and readily fulfilled , but the phrase ‘ some harm … albeit not serious harm ’ has been construed restrictively in one sense . |
| 24 | However , at this time when there is an increasing desire among young people to move away , the traditional tenure of first resort , the privately rented sector , has been declining rapidly from 61 per cent of the total in 1947 to 10 per cent in the mid-1980s ( Donnison 1967 , Table 10 ; Social Trends 18 , 1988 , p. 132 ) . |
| 25 | The problem is resolved when Chris announces that his conference has been put forward to 5 June , although something in his manner suggests to Matty that he got the date wrong in the first place . |
| 26 | At the other point the primary experiment UA2 has been put together by 50 or so researchers from France , Denmark , Italy , Switzerland and CERN under the leadership of Pierre Daulat . |
| 27 | Hardly a fish has been caught here for three weeks but the birds had had roach and dace up to 8 oz . |
| 28 | It is quality stuff which the city has been making well for hundreds of years . |
| 29 | It has been brought forward to 5 April to allow institutional shareholders to enjoy the 25 per cent grossing-up for the last time . |
| 30 | MICHAEL WATSON 'S World Boxing Association world middleweight title challenge against the Jamaican , Mike McCallum , has been brought forward to 29 November and switched to Alexandra Palace . |