Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] have been [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , only eight cases have been fully authenticated . |
| 2 | Yet much of the RE of the past 30 years has been strangely reluctant to offer the challenge . |
| 3 | For many people , much of the previous 20 to 30 years has been closely associated with the issues and problems of bringing up their children . |
| 4 | The past forty years have been technically foreshortened by a succession of powerful techniques for unravelling the behaviour of seemingly complicated macromolecules . |
| 5 | At least 12 men have been publicly hanged in Afghanistan under the recently Islamic Law Code . |
| 6 | Edward 's 800 specimens had been easily absorbed . |
| 7 | Despite a lack of consistent evidence from patency trials supporting intravenous heparin , the use of delayed subcutaneous heparin in the GISSI-2 and ISIS-3 trials has been widely criticised . |
| 8 | Six months had been too long and she wanted to be home . |
| 9 | Thus to honour the first of the Roman emperors an orderly arrangement was reduced to an illogical jumble that many people find difficult to remember but which in the course of 2,000 years has been successfully imposed on most of the world . |
| 10 | So , too , of course , does John Lill , and among his 1991 engagements have been all five Beethoven Concertos — to be followed later by the two Brahms — with the Hong Kong Philharmonic conducted by their Musical Director , David Atherton ! |
| 11 | On June 10 the Interior Ministry announced that 2,000 detainees had been recently released , in addition to those released gradually since March . |
| 12 | To many members of the Church of England , which for fifty years had been strongly influenced by Calvinism , Laud seemed to be introducing innovations , the most offensive of which was the doctrine that bishops derived their authority from God . |
| 13 | In a little town called Alcester a new housing development of three roads has been recently completed . |
| 14 | Sensitivities and cross reactivities of all three assays have been previously described . |
| 15 | All three methods have been widely used , with two 's complement as the most common on current computers ; we use this convention for the rest of the section , unless stated otherwise . |
| 16 | Our true airspeed at 1500–2000 feet had been around 145 knots at 2200 rpm and 24 ’ manifold with a fuel flow of 11 gallons per hour . |
| 17 | Er I myself and many others were here for two and a half years and I submit to you that this is a considerable portion of one 's adult lifetime and consequently , the experiences of the last three days have been very meaningful and very moving to those of us who did spend such a portion of our lives here in this place . |
| 18 | Neither the debtor himself nor a creditor can present a petition unless the debtor is domiciled in England and Wales ; is personally present in England and Wales on the day on which the petition is presented ; or at any time in the previous three years has been ordinarily resident , has had a place of residence , or has carried on business in England and Wales ( s 265(1) ) . |
| 19 | The past three years have been particularly harsh in both publishing and bookselling , with waves of redundancies and bankruptcies and , at best , a massive reduction in the profitability of the book industry . |
| 20 | Cross reactivity and sensitivity of all three radioimmunoassays has been previously described . |
| 21 | The dahabeeyah had moored for the night and the three girls had been up on the top deck enjoying the evening breeze . |
| 22 | We are very proud of our school and we are particularly proud of our area sixth form centre , and my own three children have been there and I 'm very grateful to it too . |
| 23 | In addition , many other categories of workers in the formal and informal sectors in all three worlds have been progressively drawn in to the global capitalist system by the simple expedient of severely restricting and in more and more cases absolutely destroying their prospects for selfsufficiency in the provision of food , shelter and other ‘ necessities ’ of life . |
| 24 | Mr Mackie agreed that all three men had been quite happy to have the injection administered by Murray and that he had also consented whenever Murray had injected him with drugs . |
| 25 | Three factors have been particularly significant in bringing about this decline : reduced family size , the increasing participation of women in the labour market , and rising divorce rates . |
| 26 | All three datasets had been relatively little analysed and the study aimed not only to identify general patterns of poor parenting but also to examine processes that might be specific to each risk factor . |
| 27 | Three benefits have been substantially changed — housing benefit , pensions and widows ' benefits . |
| 28 | Three hundred and thirty thousand Germans have been senselessly and irresponsibly led to death and destruction through the cunning strategy of a corporal from World War 1 . |
| 29 | Certainly , trading conditions over the past 18 months have been very buoyant . |
| 30 | The experts have only to accept that the joint sessions also used groups of models kitted-out for each occasion by Rembrandt from his well stocked theatrical wardrobe and used them for painting as well as for drawing , to come to realize that their efforts over the last seventy years have been largely misdirected . |