Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , had Sheffield referee John Key not been so lenient , Wright could have been dismissed two or three times over . |
| 2 | then it you know they might have been delayed one way or another . |
| 3 | THE eagerly-awaited reappearance of Champion hurdler Royal Gait has been delayed 24 hours until this afternoon due to the abandonment of yesterday 's meeting at Leopardstown . |
| 4 | Race officials claim the start of the run had been delayed 20 minutes to avoid the train but the race was running 10 minutes ahead of schedule . |
| 5 | Thurston , had arrived with a load of ammunition for the Beaufighters on 7th , but had been delayed three days in leaving again due to a heavy swell on the sea . |
| 6 | Until it is quite inescapable that inside the three barrels , distributed , playing together a familiar tune which has been heard three times before , are the TRAGEDIANS . |
| 7 | The transistor transformed the portable radio , cul-minating in the spectacle — bizarre if it had been witnessed 20 years earlier — of people going around with earphones and Walkmans . |
| 8 | Twelve months ago Tom had been placed two half-days each week in an off-site unit for disruptive children . |
| 9 | Over the last number of years the way unemployment figures have been measured has been altered 31 times creating an entirely distorted picture . |
| 10 | Not for Lexandro those thronged elephantine courtyards and grim vaulted catacombs to which glass cables delivered only a diluted memory of distant sunshine , and where ventilator gargoyles exhaled stale breath which had been refiltered fifty times already . |
| 11 | The heart of the team departed when scrum half and captain Nick Farr-Jones announced his retirement after the Springboks had been crushed 26–3 in Cape Town last August . |
| 12 | A 24 year old woman had been diagnosed five years previously and had persistent abdominal pain , diarrhoea , and ill health despite repeated courses of steroids . |
| 13 | Methods for controlling complexity have been developed 1,2,6,7 and successfully used . |
| 14 | The museum already has a comprehensive library donated as a bequest from Paul Maenz , the former Cologne gallery owner , and has been given fifty-five works of art by a West German group of industrialists . |
| 15 | Mr Redmond had been looking after the woodyard where he worked while his employer was on a cruise to restore his health , and Sarah told Anne that her father had been given fifty pounds as a mark of appreciation when his employer returned . |
| 16 | ‘ Much of it is , but Christian has been given fifty acres of forest land . |
| 17 | The group , which has been given 18 bins , is building setts to replace those dug-up by badger-baiters . |
| 18 | South Yorkshire police have asked for 17 posts for the coming year ; they have been given 16 . |
| 19 | Nurse Beverley Allitt who killed four babies has been given thirteen life sentences . |
| 20 | Nurse Beverley Allitt who killed four babies has been given thirteen life sentences . |
| 21 | Also present , and hoping to apply for membership in due course , were representatives from the Shoreham Aviation Heritage Trust , who have been given 75 acres of land at historic Shoreham Airport to develop into a museum . |
| 22 | ‘ He seems also to have been given sixty thousand in travel grants . |
| 23 | Sir — Both the government and the opposition parties have been given one clear ringing message by the voters in the election : that environmental issues are of little or no concern to them . |
| 24 | A word from Maud and he had been given one of the four coveted places as a dresser , which meant he had more chance to learn the great man 's skills . |
| 25 | And it says You have been given one injection of tetanus vaccine absorbed and another of tetanus antitoxin . |
| 26 | ‘ And apart from Barbra arriving late — which she would n't have done had she only been given one hairdresser instead of three , because all three insisted on fixing her hair , and that took time — everything went smoothly . ’ |
| 27 | We are not alone in having the grant cut , some of the governing bodies have only been given one year 's notice or nothing at all . |
| 28 | Erm , now as as this so called generous funding in fact , the police authority are facing a straight deficit of three hundred and twenty-eight thousand , they are facing a further deficit of four hundred and twenty-five thousand because they have only been given one and a half percent for pay , where all the information we have been given from the Home Office , you can shake your head as much as you like Chairman , it is in fact true , and in fact , in fact as reported in the Guardian , on , only the day before yesterday , yet again the police bill is to be , almost certainly four percent , not one and a half . |
| 29 | But one or two MPs emerged from behind the public show of loyalty to warn that Mr Major has been given one last chance . |
| 30 | John Prescot has been given one of the key posts in the new shadow cabinet . |