Example sentences of "[num] [verb] been [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a tradition , and since 1911 the Indianapolis 500 has been rooted in American patriotism . |
| 2 | A reduced gall bladder emptying in response to a meal and to infusion of CCK-33 has been reported in such patients . |
| 3 | The practice of underwriting before the reforms of October 1986 has been described as a method of compensation for the high transactions costs of fixed commissions for large institutional clients . |
| 4 | What sporting challenge first conquered in 1875 has been attempted by four thousand two hundred people and achieved by just 423 ? |
| 5 | The allocation for London in the current financial year 1991-92 has been cut by a further 8 per cent . |
| 6 | Effective political control is in the hands of the Communist Party of China ( CCP — which currently has almost 48,000,000 members ) and since 1980 has been dominated by China 's " elder statesman " leader , Deng Xiaoping . |
| 7 | For Richard Burnell , the Olympic spirit of 1948 has been tarnished by the passage of time . |
| 8 | Room 4.17 has been nominated as the place for the delivery of nominations and withdrawals . |
| 9 | The campaign to bring Blair Peach 's murderer to justice and the demand for a full public inquiry into the events of ‘ 79 has been mounted for nine and a half years by the Friends of Blair Peach Committee . |
| 10 | Illegitimacy started to increase again in the 1960s ; later marriage since 1972 has been accompanied by higher , not lower , levels of illegitimacy . |
| 11 | Directive 76/207 has been implemented in Greece by Act 1414/1984 , which proclaimsthe principle of equal treatment of men and women with respect to , inter alia , access to employment ( Article 3 ) . |
| 12 | In West Germany rain with a pH of 4.0 has been recorded with a 2.8 in some of the ground water and even higher acidity has been recorded in Scandinavia and North America . |
| 13 | After one or two months , most of the SO 2 has been oxidized to sulphate ; the efficiency of these two mechanisms then becomes negligible ( although ozone remains perturbed in the lower stratosphere because of its long photochemical lifetime in this region ) . |
| 14 | Format 2 has been adopted by the company . |
| 15 | The motion of HDE 226868 has been analysed by techniques similar to those already described in Section 8.6 for the pulsar 1913 + 16 , this time using the Doppler spectral shift of HDE 226868 . |
| 16 | Planned capital expenditure for 1993 has been set at $5 billion . |
| 17 | Mr. Karsten submitted that once the mandatory effect of article 12 has been relaxed by a finding under article 13 , either under sub-paragraph ( a ) or sub-paragraph ( b ) , this gives rise to the exercise of a discretion by the court . |
| 18 | The Comprehensive Environmental Response , Compensation and Liability Act ( CERCLA ) legislation of 1980 ( ‘ Superfund ’ ) requires the cleaning up of the worst landfill sites , of which some 800 had been identified by the Environmental Protection Agency by 1986 ( Foresman 1986 ) . |
| 19 | The Council of Ministers announced on March 7 that June 12 had been set as the date for multiparty local and provincial elections ( to the assemblées populaires communales and the assemblées populaires de wilayas ) , postponed from December 1989 and then again from March 1990 [ see p. 37218 ] to allow more time for newly-created political parties to prepare their campaigns . |
| 20 | Thirty-one had been discharged by 1983 but with six of these patients having been transferred to a general hospital for physical illness and having subsequently died . |
| 21 | The letter recalled that a 1,750 million ECU loan in 1985 had been given on condition that the PSBR and inflation be reduced over three years [ see p. 34440 ] and that these terms had not been adhered to . |
| 22 | Opposition sources claimed that at least 30 had been killed in Mashad , and more than 500 arrested ; the authorities reported one death and local residents six . |
| 23 | Police said a man aged 34 and a woman aged 30 had been arrested in connection with the death . |
| 24 | A total of 43 of the victims had been separated from their families in childhood by state authorities , all but two had left school before completing their secondary education , and 43 had been charged with a criminal offence by the age of 15 . |
| 25 | The 2 had been watched by police and were arrested shortly afterwards at their homes in Gloucester and Ruscombe near Stroud . |
| 26 | No less than 625 had been lost since 1945 . |
| 27 | Peak numbers are usually noted in September , when flocks totalling up to 1,600 have been noted in Chichester and Pagham Harbours and flocks of up to 200 have been seen elsewhere along the coast . |
| 28 | More than 800 have been sold since 1964 — equivalent to one every seven working days — with 84 per cent going for export , sixty per cent of the North American market . |
| 29 | For example , up to 105 have been seen at Manhood End , 80 at Harting pond , 70 at Swanbourne Lake , 105 in the Arun valley , and 30 at Rodmell , all since 1965 . |
| 30 | Salati and Vose ( 1983 ) , for example , believe that of the 8 x 10 6 km 2 of tropical forests that have been converted to agriculture , some 3 × 10 6 km 2 are now under shifting cultivation while 3.5 × 10 6 k 2 have been converted to pasture . |