Example sentences of "[verb] have been [verb] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But what he has done has been to study twenty one species of freshwater molluscs — that means snails , clams , things of that kind from the Lake Tocarno region of Africa . |
| 2 | Kazakhstan was said to have been losing 150,000,000 roubles daily since May because of the difference between its fuel prices and those of Russia [ see also p. 38923 ] . |
| 3 | Now C twenty eight that some people who I 've noticed have been talking one minute . |
| 4 | Over the last number of years the way unemployment figures have been measured has been altered 31 times creating an entirely distorted picture . |
| 5 | , Claude ( 1877–1959 ) , scholar , claimed to have been born 26 May 1877 ( his birth certificate counter-claimed 24 May ) in Handsworth , Staffordshire , the eldest son of Oswald Jenkins , cashier and later land agent , and his wife Sarah , daughter of William Palmer . |
| 6 | The others acknowledged us cheerily , clearly relieved to have been allowed 30 seconds for a sit-down . |
| 7 | The new carriageway was , however , short-lived , and a masonry building , probably a bath-house , was constructed across it at this point ; the surviving carriageway appears to have been resurfaced seven times . |
| 8 | Detectives say it could be another six weeks before they can formally identify the body of a woman believed to have been murdered twenty years ago . |
| 9 | The inquest had heard that changes to the hot water system at the home where the boy died had been ordered five years ago , but that the work was only done AFTER the boy 's death . |
| 10 | The 55 courses from which completed questionnaires have been received had been sent 923 questionnaires . |