Example sentences of "[num] [noun sg] [pron] have been " in BNC.

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1 The part of the boy Miles , is sung by Sam Burkey , a 12 year-old who has been tipped as the next Aled Jones ; he 's already sung the part with the English National Opera .
2 Prior to the 1980 Act it had been observed that the law had been ‘ heavily weighed in favour of the local education authorities and schools with parents having few rights ( although many duties ) and little say in the decision-making process ’ .
3 The breakthrough follows new tests on exhibits from the 1975 Six trial which have been carefully kept sealed and under lock and key ever since .
4 Boro began with a 4–5–1 formation which has been successful in recent away games .
5 The court ruled that a 101-year-old treaty with the USA could be used instead of a 1979 treaty which had been declared unconstitutional in June 1987 [ see p. 35756 ] .
6 Yeah well it 's rare for me to come to the doctor 's but last three week I 've been here like every week , kind of thing .
7 Look at the bare facts we 've not beaten the scum in the three season we 've been back up and god knows we 've had enough chances in that time .
8 It has not been possible to exempt her from a third politics module , 7605 , but rather than delay her Stage II entry it has been agreed that she may ‘ trail ’ it in that stage , i.e. she will include it along with her advanced modules as 1 of the 2 basic modules which may also be counted .
9 Sixteen month you 'd been married .
10 Sixteen month you 'd been married .
11 I 've been very happy with Oxford the last 6 year I 've been racing for them .
12 One instant he had been running flat out , the next he had stopped , whipped round to face them , and dropped into a defensive crouch .
13 One instant he had been in mid-spring , forelegs extended and jaws agape , aiming himself at the crouching man-thing before them , the next , the target had moved with blurring speed , rising swiftly to meet him head-on .
14 And they found one tent which had been King Yucef 's ; never man saw so noble a thing as that tent was ; and there were great riches therein , and there also did they find Alvar Salvadores , who had been made prisoner the yesterday , as ye have heard .
15 One afternoon we had been taken for a walk up to the top of the mountain behind the camp , which had been good exercise ; from the top I had been able to see the sea .
16 One measure which has been proposed as a quality of care indicator is readmission to hospital .
17 For example , one text which has been widely circulated on the extreme right in recent years is Gary Allen 's None Dare Call It Conspiracy .
18 The data can be revealing : one technique which has been used by HMI is to follow two classes in a given year group : the one with the highest attendance and the one with the lowest .
19 One part which has been spoiled by people taking short cuts is known as the Devils 's Staircase .
20 They may want security , er one case I 've been del dealing with they wanted the share certificates depositing by way of some security for instance .
21 Thus on one side there had been complete effacement of party activities , while on the other they ran forward unresisted .
22 One figure which has been proposed already , however , is a council tax water charge of £70 for properties in the ‘ middle range ’ .
23 They were three US citizens and one Australian who had been travelling together in a car , and one UK citizen who had been taken off a bus .
24 Prior to the 1966 Act there had been a duty imposed on the National Assistance Board to give assistance to those in need by the payment of national assistance , but no corresponding right for individuals to receive assistance .
25 Perhaps he could do little else , but there is no mistaking the magnanimity of the spirit in which he wrote the following reply to one question which had been sent to him during his exile .
26 If it does n't happen this year it 'll happen next spring you see , and of course er one lady who had been with her aunty er over in the Germany , she says when they went into , she knew they were accumulating theirs , she had some friends in Germany and of course they , she said they were hoarding up just at the borders of Poland I think it would be then .
27 Well I said to er one lady who 's been for first time and she thinks it 's marvellous !
28 One second I had been speeding at fifty miles an hour along a ribbon of uninterrupted concrete ; the next , to the wide-eyed amusement of a group of policemen standing beside a checkpoint , there was a loud crunch , every shock absorber on the Nissan thudded home to its end-stops and I found myself dead in the water by a pothole large enough to accommodate half Balboa 's army .
29 ‘ This affects only one product which has been voluntarily withdrawn as a precautionary measure .
30 One point which has been decided is that an odour need not be prejudicial to health to amount to a nuisance , rather in deciding the question the court will consider all the circumstances including the character of the locality in which the plaintiff is living , the nature , intensity and frequency of the odour , the time and effects of its commission .
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