Example sentences of "[num] [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | This unique Number 4850158 has been selected especially for you in the latest by invitation-only Hospital Plan Cash Match Prize Draw . |
| 2 | A woman in her thirties has been found dead at her home after a man walked into a police station and said he wanted to talk to detectives . |
| 3 | The research programme , for which 730,000 has been allocated , is being funded largely by the ESRC , with contributions from both the Home Office and DHSS . |
| 4 | May 20–26 has been designated ‘ One World ’ week by 18 national TV stations : it kicks off with a German production , The World In Our Hands , which highlights global issues from pollution to Third World debt , and ends with One World , One Voice , a two-hour musical chain letter masterminded by Kevin Godley and featuring 150 international musicians . |
| 5 | The Principality of Monaco is a hereditary monarchy , which since 1861 has been under French protection . |
| 6 | Nineteen of the birds died and others among the 149 moved were mistreated . |
| 7 | Figure 2.4 has been drawn to show that , as the partial remainder is shifted left , the vacated positions can be used to hold the bits of the quotient . |
| 8 | It is a tradition , and since 1911 the Indianapolis 500 has been rooted in American patriotism . |
| 9 | ‘ Your appeal against the above offer of permanent accommodation made available to you on 12-9-91 has been considered carefully but I regret to inform you that the appeal has not been allowed and you should sign for the tenancy at the local housing office by 2-12-91 . |
| 10 | The Science Vote for 1992–93 has been divided as follows ( £m ) : |
| 11 | The task ahead has been clearly recognised and 1992–93 has been a year in which we have continued to apply our skills and core technologies across the wider spectrum of human endeavour from healthcare to the care of the environment in which we live . |
| 12 | A reduced gall bladder emptying in response to a meal and to infusion of CCK-33 has been reported in such patients . |
| 13 | As you are no doubt aware , 1986 has been designated Industry Year by the Government . |
| 14 | The way that the Single European Act of 1986 has been applied is a good example . |
| 15 | A major development in 1986 has been the launch of Continuity and Change , a new social history journal published by the Cambridge University Press . |
| 16 | The practice of underwriting before the reforms of October 1986 has been described as a method of compensation for the high transactions costs of fixed commissions for large institutional clients . |
| 17 | Annie Griffin came to Britain from New York in 1980 as a student and since 1986 has been devising and performing original work for the theatre . |
| 18 | What sporting challenge first conquered in 1875 has been attempted by four thousand two hundred people and achieved by just 423 ? |
| 19 | The allocation for London in the current financial year 1991-92 has been cut by a further 8 per cent . |
| 20 | Effective political control is in the hands of the Communist Party of China ( CCP — which currently has almost 48,000,000 members ) and since 1980 has been dominated by China 's " elder statesman " leader , Deng Xiaoping . |
| 21 | For Richard Burnell , the Olympic spirit of 1948 has been tarnished by the passage of time . |
| 22 | Exercise 13.3 has been set to give you an opportunity to try reading a table with four variables in it . |
| 23 | Room 4.17 has been nominated as the place for the delivery of nominations and withdrawals . |
| 24 | The campaign to bring Blair Peach 's murderer to justice and the demand for a full public inquiry into the events of ‘ 79 has been mounted for nine and a half years by the Friends of Blair Peach Committee . |
| 25 | General availability of the System/88 FTX 2.2 Unix and FTX X25 Release 5.0 has been put back to September 24 from March 26 . |
| 26 | Composite eight has been accepted . |
| 27 | Motion two seven eight has been accepted . |
| 28 | Illegitimacy started to increase again in the 1960s ; later marriage since 1972 has been accompanied by higher , not lower , levels of illegitimacy . |
| 29 | Directive 76/207 has been implemented in Greece by Act 1414/1984 , which proclaimsthe principle of equal treatment of men and women with respect to , inter alia , access to employment ( Article 3 ) . |
| 30 | The one responsible for putting together the JP233 since July 1985 has been Royal Ordnance 's Glascoed site : 1,000 acres of low-lying ground , with an obliging screen of hills on every side , deep in the countryside of mid-Gwent . |