Example sentences of "have been [verb] the [num] " in BNC.

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1 The former building firm supervisor has been tending the 200 square meter allotment near his Newton home for the past eight years .
2 In addition to pressure for defence cuts , the Mitterrand administration has been wooing the two Green parties .
3 A PIANIST of 14 , from Chestfield , Kent , has been named the 1992 BBC Young Musician of the Year .
4 Koerner has been awarded the 1992 Mitchell Prize of $15,000 for Caspar David Friedrich and the subject of landscape ( Reaktion Books , London , and Yale University Press , London and New Haven , 1990 ) and Galassi the Eric Mitchell Prize of $5000 for an outstanding first book by a promising scholar for Corot in Italy , ( also published by Yale , 1991 ) .
5 A Quiche Indian woman from Guatemala who has achieved worldwide recognition by speaking out against the oppression of her people has been awarded the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize .
6 The Guido Donegani Institute , the corporate R&D arm of EniChem , in conjunction with Italsolar and the University of Milan , has been awarded the 1991 Philip Morris prize for scientific and technological research .
7 The Brazilian pastor Carlos Dreher has been awarded the 1991 Wilhelm-Sebastian-Schmerl prize for his outstanding contribution to Protestant media work in a German speaking context .
8 Professor James D Halloran has been awarded the 1991 McLuhan Teleglobe Canada Award .
9 Rob Yates , spokesman for New Brighton Power Boat and Ski Club , explained : ‘ Britain has been awarded the four litre world championship next year , but no venue has yet been decided .
10 Rob Yate , spokesman for New Brighton Power Boat and Ski Club 's organising committee , said : ‘ Britain has been awarded the four litre world championship next year but no venue has yet been decided .
11 Consultants told the paper that IBM has been dissecting the two most recent pre-release versions of NT at its Toronto labs to assess the time and money that would be required to do the implementation , and reckon a product could arrive at the turn of the year .
12 Consultants told the paper that IBM has been dissecting the two most recent pre-release versions of NT at its Toronto labs to assess the time and money that would be required to do the implementation , and reckon a product could arrive at the turn of the year .
13 ‘ The longest serving member of staff has been offered the one post that we will be able to fund from the Scottish Education Department for next session and currently we are waiting for a decision on that matter . ’
14 There are two members I think have spoken from the Liberal benches concerning funding bureaucracy and I would agree entirely with what that means but they 've also mentioned in the same bet , budgetary control and if you 're going to control budgets , you have to have a minimal amount of bureaucracy and the function really of the head of the er of the project , er the head of the the post that 's now slipped into oblivion with this motion , would actually have been to do two things it would have been to hold the two groups together and it would have been to have overall control of that budget and it would n't have been easy and I would n't have like the job and I wouldn't 've applied for it and certainly would have been very difficult indeed .
15 Top and Elton John lookalike pulls the crowds on the Omnibus stand ; centre Polygon 's editorial director Marion Sinclair left and publicist Kathryn Maclean were delighted to hear that Polygon had been named the 1993 Sunday Times Small Publisher of the Year .
16 He had only been fifteen and had been given the four-ten , the so-called lady 's gun , which Rufus gathered had rather gone against the grain .
17 Clarence had been given the honour of Richmond in 1462 ; or , more strictly , had been given the two thirds then in the crown 's possession and the reversion of the remaining third on the death of the dowager duchess of Bedford .
18 Clarence had been given the honour of Richmond in 1462 ; or , more strictly , had been given the two thirds then in the crown 's possession and the reversion of the remaining third on the death of the dowager duchess of Bedford .
19 Diana , who had been expecting the two boys to join her at Althorp in Northamptonshire today , phoned them briefly yesterday morning .
20 The popular swim , at least , had been fished the two nights before our blank one .
21 But there was a one day in which Frenchie Nick Nicholson erm brought all the tail-enders across and had been told the one thing he should n't do was be last he was thinking I 'm not last and behind you then he came in in front of him and he was last .
22 I 've been analysing the two sessions ever since .
23 In the past week any number of interested parties have been granted the 30 second television sound bite in order to voice an opinion or two about the way English should be taught in our schools .
24 However , as has been reported in International Crossroads , they have been awarded the 1993 World Cup Sevens , a decision which did not meet with general approval , and as there is a rebuilding programme at Murrayfield only 38,000 fans will be able to watch the tournament on each day .
25 For some years now Fiji have been playing the sevens tournaments of the world and have been winning them all .
26 When 4095 such charge/discharge cycles have been counted the two outputs , pin 2 and pin 3 , change state — pin 2 going from low to high and pin 3 from high to low .
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