Example sentences of "been [verb] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The foal is now an eight-year-old mare with a sweet disposition ; but then she has never been given a second chance to smell methylated spirits . |
| 2 | About half their original sample had been given a second interview four years after the first . |
| 3 | ( In the Soviet Union a draft law allowing all citizens to obtain a passport quickly had already been given a first reading , and the Soviet delegate estimated that between 1,500,000 and 2,000,000 Soviet citizens could decide to emigrate " in the first two to three years " . ) |
| 4 | Half an hour after the finish the stewards disqualified the Schlesser/Baldi Mercedes on the grounds that it had been given a tenth of a litre more than its 246-litre fuel allowance . |
| 5 | Still , in the next few days as the news began to filter in from Niki 's hospital that Niki had been given the last rites , that he had inhaled burning fuel and damaged his lungs , that his face had been appallingly burned , the facts did begin to sink in . |
| 6 | I 've er I 've only just I 've only been coughing the last couple of days , but |
| 7 | But when all has been considered the next and final step is the survey itself . |
| 8 | Section 10 establishes the Register of Land Charges consisting of five classes to which has been added a sixth , Class F. They are described below and apart from the bankruptcy entries , relate to unregistered land . |
| 9 | Another Harlequin , Everton Davis , has been seeking a second opinion on the knee injury that forced him out of last month 's England training session . |
| 10 | He had been defeated the first time , but that foray into the arena had taught him a lot . |
| 11 | The usual approach to discussion on the role of armaments in modern Marxist literature has been to allocate a third department of production specifically for such production . |
| 12 | Had the system been accepted the first commercial power satellite might have been in operation by 2010 . |
| 13 | A schoolboy has been recalling the last minutes of a ski-lift crash in which his step brother died . |
| 14 | He 'd been offered a second chance of salvation . |
| 15 | aye , you see , that 's why so it meant that we have been going the last week in each month , er each second month |
| 16 | Stars of the film world have been marking the eightieth birthday of one of the giants of British cinema . |
| 17 | When a draft schedule has been produced the next stage is what I have referred to previously as ‘ internal testing ’ . |
| 18 | Perhaps we could have been celebrating the first golden anniversary of the 1,000 Reich boasted about by Hitler . |
| 19 | Mr James Bowen , the televisionist , has been celebrating the tenth anniversary of his ‘ television ’ contest , Bullseye , an adversarial entertainment based on the art of projectile throwing . |
| 20 | The hypothetical new force has been called the fifth force . |
| 21 | The distinction between the recreational and the educational establishments was apparent when the Revd Daniel Elsdale opened what has been called the first proper boys ' club in the poorer area of his Kennington parish in 1872 , and the following year a ‘ Youth 's Institute ’ in the more middle-class district . |
| 22 | The Macintosh user interface has been called the first ‘ intuitive ’ interface , suggesting that a user can learn how to use it by instinct alone without the need for instruction manuals or training . |
| 23 | Nobody was yet greatly concerned about the poverty of what had just been called the Third World . |
| 24 | It had been worn the last time the Mendozas beat the O'Briens in the Open and on every occasion they had met since . |
| 25 | The delay had been to give the second team time to gain position . |
| 26 | He was 44 years old and he had already been acclaimed the First Great American painter . |
| 27 | ‘ But then one night , under the covers — I was just getting older , I guess , but anyway — I was sort of reviewing the day , and I was thinking about school , and what we 'd learned , and we 'd been doing the Second World War , and I had n't liked the sound of this Hitler guy at all ; and I 'd asked dad , just to double-check , and — ’ |
| 28 | If he knew how old she was he might want her to tell him what she had been doing the last few years . |
| 29 | Buyers from all over the country have been attending the first of the annual auctions of holly and mistletoe . |
| 30 | Joh Commonwealth leaders have been attending the first day of their summit in Cyprus and protests by Greek Cypriots . |