Example sentences of "the [num] have [adv] been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three of the eight had already been released [ see pp. 37851 ; 37914 ] , but after the rescue attempt the Extraditables threatened to kill two of the remaining four , and announced the renewal of all-out war against the police . |
| 2 | It was also known that the Kharg-5 had twice been damaged by Iraqi missiles in the Gulf during the Iran-Iraq war . |
| 3 | The three had frequently been accused by Israel of being leaders of the intifada . |
| 4 | Football in the '90s has inevitably been determined by events off the pitch and the rivalry between Hibs and Hearts has echoed those tunes . |
| 5 | Musgrave 's career in the 1530s has sometimes been interpreted as that of a border gentleman working , with others , to displace the northern nobility . |
| 6 | Prior Robert , still stonily silent and shocked out of his normal studied dignity , led away his shattered clerk to the second of the two penitentiary cells ; and it was the first time , as far as Cadfael could recall , that the two had ever been occupied at the same time . |
| 7 | Political ties between England and Gascony in the years before 1453 also had economic implications , because although the two had originally been linked by dynastic chance , their economies could complement each other . |
| 8 | The two have since been combined in a single volume . |
| 9 | The '90 has just been bottled and is a huge , thick , brooding but surprisingly velvety mixture of blackberries , molasses , Pontefract cakes and garrigue herb flavours ( available in May , £11.24 ; Adnams ( 0502 724222 ) has the '88 at £11.25 ; Vintage Roots the '88/'89 at £11.65 ) . |