Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] been [vb pp] [num] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The recent Newbury winner has been installed 6–1 favourite by Corals and Ladbrokes , but Brooks warned : ‘ He 's far from a definite runner . |
| 2 | The recent Newbury winner has been installed 6–1 favourite by Corals and Ladbrokes but Brooks warned yesterday : |
| 3 | This business in Henley has been targeted four times . |
| 4 | Under the scheme , each branch has been set two targets in the current quarter . |
| 5 | Underlining the endless uncertainty that surrounds any industrial or commercial company that has the misfortune to be controlled by the state , France 's chronic loss-maker Compagnie des Machines Bull SA has been given two months to come up with a viable strategy , French Industry Minister Gerard Longuet said after a news conference where he outlined his policies after six weeks in office . |
| 6 | Underlining the endless uncertainty that surrounds any industrial or commercial company controlled by the state , France 's loss-maker Compagnie des Machines Bull SA has been given two months to come up with a viable strategy , French Industry Minister Gerard Longuet said after a news conference where he outlined his policies after six weeks in office . |
| 7 | Severe acute hepatitis immediately after intravenous amiodarone has been reported four times . |
| 8 | The closure has been confirmed twenty four hours after British Coal announced the pit was to go into the review procedure and revealed that it 's lost more than six million pounds in the last six months . |
| 9 | The proposed closure has been confirmed twenty four hours after British Coal announced the pit was to go into the review procedure and it was revealed that it had lost more than six million pounds in the last six months . |
| 10 | Who even in their wildest dreams could have anticipated such a victory only nine weeks after the same side had been overwhelmed 15–3 by Scotland at Murrayfield . |
| 11 | Who even in their wildest dreams could have anticipated such a victory only nine weeks after the same side had been overwhelmed 15–3 by Scotland at Murrayfield . |
| 12 | A few days before he resigned from West Ham , the club had been beaten 6–0 in the first leg of a crunch match against Oldham . |
| 13 | William Bird 's wife Jean had been killed five years before in an horrific road accident involving a drunken driver . |
| 14 | He began to say all the prayers to the Blessed Virgin and the saints which he had been taught at his mother 's knee , and all the while , as he prayed , he was aware that under a mile to the west lay Gribbin Head , where murder had been done eleven months before : murder he had been witness to and had profited by ; murder he had known full well was mortal sin for which , at the Judgement Seat , he would have to give account to God . |
| 15 | Then attention switched to a Superintendent Miller of pugnacious appearance , who described in clipped and guarded police-speak how twenty-year-old Samantha Abberley had been abducted nine days previously . |
| 16 | I 've often wish 'd , for the honour of our Sex , that these Subjects had been exhausted seventeen hundred years ago ; but am afraid that seventeen hundred years hence , we shall have the same false Corydon 's , and the same complaining Sylvia 's . |
| 17 | The response probably would have been smoother because the effect of the 0/1 potency had been completed six weeks earlier . |
| 18 | Unfortunately , some recorded samples were lost because the children were outside in the playground or on excursions from the home , so when the recordings had been transcribed seven samples only were picked for analysis , a random procedure being used to make the selection where more than seven had been recorded . |
| 19 | Sir — Both the government and the opposition parties have been given one clear ringing message by the voters in the election : that environmental issues are of little or no concern to them . |
| 20 | Madam Speaker , this announcement is now almost a year delayed the firm of Coopers and Lybrand have been paid one point six million pounds to come up with this ass access charging fiasco , surely this house in entitled to the , as entitled as the press to a full statement of the government 's intentions so that they can be answered by . |
| 21 | The boy has been arrested 37 times in the last 11 months . |
| 22 | The child has been shown two sets arranged in one-to-one correspondence , and agreed that they have the same number . |
| 23 | That question has been answered three days running . |
| 24 | NOW THAT the council has been given thousands of pounds for traffic calming measures , how about a pedestrian crossing outside Alder Hey Hospital ? |
| 25 | A BURGLARY victim whose home has been raided 14 times in three years has screwed her TV to the floor . |
| 26 | Now the angry owner , whose home has been burgled four times this year , is offering a £500 reward for information . |
| 27 | A mare in foal has been stabbed fifty times in what her owner describes as a brutal and motiveless attack . |
| 28 | The committee had been established two years earlier by the Wilson Government in response to widespread indignation about rate increases imposed by the new councils in 1974 . |
| 29 | Race officials claim the start of the run had been delayed 20 minutes to avoid the train but the race was running 10 minutes ahead of schedule . |
| 30 | This patient had a history of chest pain , although a negative exercise test had been recorded 7.5 months before the episode . |