Example sentences of "it [verb] be [vb pp] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since it has been introduced 43 people have been cut off the dole and 21 continue to receive reduced rates of social security in the North of Ireland . |
| 2 | Every word in it has been typed four times ( once by our Paris correspondent , once by the French telex operator , once by a typist in our office , and finally by the Linotype operator at Index Printers ) . |
| 3 | The transistor transformed the portable radio , cul-minating in the spectacle — bizarre if it had been witnessed 20 years earlier — of people going around with earphones and Walkmans . |
| 4 | It had been seen nine years before at Kangaroo island and in 1840 came to us in thousands — running about the streets and Gardens and into the houses as if it had never seen man before . |
| 5 | If its home clock said the time was 12.00 a.m. but the sun at the release site indicated 6.00 a.m. the pigeon would infer it had been moved one quarter of the way round the world to the west . |
| 6 | Is my right hon. Friend aware that when the shadow Chancellor recently visited the James Halstead group in my constituency — it employs more than 400 people and is successful in making good profits — he expressed satisfaction to the local media that most of the technology that he saw was British-made and that most of it had been made 20 miles from Bury ? |
| 7 | It had been decided three people might overwhelm the man they were calling on . |
| 8 | PC Stephen Noble who attended the scene at the college annex told the coroner a check on the van revealed it had been stolen eleven days previously . |
| 9 | Containing such things as ‘ Liquidi perle ’ , ‘ Tirsi morir volea ’ , and ‘ Dolorosi martir ’ , it is no wonder that by 1588 it had been reprinted four times and that in the same year five of the madrigals — with ‘ Io partirò ’ from the Second Book — were published in London with English words . |
| 10 | It had been reprinted nine times when Walton wrote his Life of Herbert in 1675 . |
| 11 | On 30 July , the last day before the Summer Recess , battered but relieved Ministers , their policy of retention rejected by the elected House but upheld by the hereditary peers , saw the Act finally onto the statute book in largely the same form as it had been introduced nine months earlier . |
| 12 | We have , in Prestatyn , a facility which is very central and well used , despite the fact that the signs advertising it have been changed three times in five years . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I have a dog as big as me and it 's been poisoned three times . ’ |
| 14 | The workshop had looked certain to shut down after the local authority withdrew its funding , but now it 's been given two months to persuade the private sector to come up with a rescue package . |