Example sentences of "in [adj] [verb] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | What sporting challenge first conquered in 1875 has been attempted by four thousand two hundred people and achieved by just 423 ? |
| 2 | This , in turn , suggests that between one quarter and one third of all country seats that existed in 1875 have been demolished . |
| 3 | Country cotton weavers claimed in 1756 to have been long accustomed to meet weekly at a public house to discuss trade matters and that their friendly society or " box club " had developed from this and in its turn found itself exercising trade-union functions . |
| 4 | Elizabeth 's intentions in 1558 have been no more clear to historians than they were to contemporaries , and have been the subject of much debate and discussion . |
| 5 | One in eight had been physically attacked . |
| 6 | In another room , there was a smiling , life-sized dummy of a Nazi paratrooper , Nazi guns , Nazi uniforms , a 1942 BMW motorcycle used by the Nazis and material explaining how the Nazi airborne invasion of Crete in 1943 had been an inspiration to the Americans . |
| 7 | The arrest and interrogation of the IRA suspects in 1971 had been a military operation with only one or two RUC men of low rank involved in a supporting role and under army direction . |
| 8 | So we can now advise people that if they take a bird in that 's been injured by a cat , they give it a shot of antibiotics — great , cures the septicaemia . |
| 9 | And while the IRA leader said how the weaponry received from Libya in 1986 had been ‘ beyond our wildest dreams ’ , it is very doubtful whether the political conditions for the military campaign can be maintained for many more years . |
| 10 | Sussex 's sound position is at variance with their performances on the field of play , which apart from their NatWest triumph in 1986 have been short of expectation . |
| 11 | Farm animals in the area contaminated by radioactive fallout from the Chernobyl nuclear accident in 1986 have been giving birth to offspring with major birth defects . |
| 12 | A major development in 1986 has been the launch of Continuity and Change , a new social history journal published by the Cambridge University Press . |
| 13 | No fewer than 75 of the 99 households recorded in 1861 had been there ten years earlier . |
| 14 | While 66 per cent of fir trees in 27 plots established in 1980 had been considered healthy , by 1982 just 1 per cent remained so . |
| 15 | The arrangements for selecting presidential candidates that produced Ronald Reagan in 1980 have been the subject of much criticism . |
| 16 | The immediate result of the battle of the Catalaunian Plains in 451 had been the succession of Theoderid 's eldest son , Thorismund . |
| 17 | The complex legacy which he had inherited in 1016 had been well utilised , a considerable number of its problems solved ( for a time , at least ) , and many of its opportunities taken . |
| 18 | It independently concluded that the main causes of the deficit in 1988–90 had been identified and that the Action Plan the University was following would prevent a similar situation arising in the future . |
| 19 | Most other efforts to air the issue in public have been suppressed . |
| 20 | SIR — In all the election brouhaha that has commanded so much unenthusiastic attention this year , a fundamental change in the way composers are paid when their works are performed in public has been strangely neglected . |
| 21 | In both , it is argued that the basis of moral principles in this has been , is and should be , Christianity . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | One of his achievements since joining Guy 's in 1985 has been to set up a full fertility unit . |
| 24 | The reform of provincial government in 1775 had been anticipated by proposals made in the 1750s under the Empress Elizabeth . |
| 25 | Although most of the new recruits to Kharkov 's metallurgical plants in 1914–17 had been ex-peasants from western Ukraine , there was no danger of nationalist sentiment ousting the Bolsheviks from the city . |
| 26 | His views on Ethiopia and Spain in 1935–6 had been misguided , many would say ; but it is a question whether fascism , in his own understanding of the matter , ever entered into it , though Christianity decidedly did . |
| 27 | At the beginning of the century , Dudo of St Quentin produced the argument that , since the homage of Duke Rollo of Normandy in 911 had been purely in gratitude for his baptism , it did not mean , either for himself or for his successors , that Normandy was a fief . |
| 28 | A similar draft amendment introduced by the government in 1979 had been narrowly defeated . |
| 29 | The total in 1991 had been 256,112 asylum applicants , chiefly from Yugoslavia , Romania and Turkey ( an increase of over 30 per cent on the 1990 figure of 193,063 ) , and 221,995 ethnic Germans . |
| 30 | The report alleged that at least 5,000 Palestinian prisoners of the 25,000 imprisoned in 1991 had been tortured . |