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

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1 But they 've proved so popular with visitors , the order has been increased six fold .
2 Nurse Beverley Allitt who killed four babies has been given thirteen life sentences .
3 Nurse Beverley Allitt who killed four babies has been given thirteen life sentences .
4 Gary Gavin , who 's twenty-four , has been given three life sentences for a series of sex assaults on women , girls and young boys .
5 The recent Newbury winner has been installed 6–1 favourite by Corals and Ladbrokes , but Brooks warned : ‘ He 's far from a definite runner .
6 The recent Newbury winner has been installed 6–1 favourite by Corals and Ladbrokes but Brooks warned yesterday :
7 Spain Lane , trained by Andre Fabre and third behind Coup de Genie and Psychobabble in the Prix Morny , has been installed 5–2 favourite from Tommy Stack 's Las Meninas on 3–1 , with Lemon Souffle , the mount of Lester Piggott , at 7–2 .
8 He has been refused one review already .
9 then it you know they might have been delayed one way or another .
10 Rain fell at Monaco — providentially for Prost , who was being pushed to the extreme by the young Ayrton Senna , and would certainly have been overtaken one lap later .
11 If its home clock said the time was 12.00 a.m. but the sun at the release site indicated 6.00 a.m. the pigeon would infer it had been moved one quarter of the way round the world to the west .
12 I knew that I should not be able to forget them again until the business had been resolved one way or the other .
13 But he was also a war hero who had commanded small ships in battles in the Channel , for which he had been awarded two DSC 's , and the son of Scott of the Antarctic who then , even more than now , was a national hero of mythic proportions in the eyes of most of us .
14 B no erm the , the clerical erm staff on the erm , shall we say the traffic side increased a bit because er there was mo more and more demanding work but the ticket office , they went down , erm I have mentioned perhaps before that they had the two box system and there was about eleven , twelve , thirteen girls in there and their duty was to check a box that had been used one day , stock it up with tickets , get it ready for the day after .
15 He had been offered one interview , but had decided against it because , if he obtained the job , it would have meant travelling a long distance every day .
16 During the terrible retreat from Mons in late August , certain officers wrote home of their impression that their foot-sore infantry had been accompanied one night by a mysterious force of cavalry , of which no trace could be found next day .
17 For Theda had been woken one night , a few days after Mr Aycliffe 's visit , by Hector whining next door .
18 And it says You have been given one injection of tetanus vaccine absorbed and another of tetanus antitoxin .
19 While most political prisoners have been involved iii trade union or political work , there are also cases of people who have boon picked up on suspicion and who have had no history of participation in any organization .
20 Madam Speaker , this announcement is now almost a year delayed the firm of Coopers and Lybrand have been paid one point six million pounds to come up with this ass access charging fiasco , surely this house in entitled to the , as entitled as the press to a full statement of the government 's intentions so that they can be answered by .
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