Example sentences of "[noun] have [been] [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The recent Newbury winner has been installed 6–1 favourite by Corals and Ladbrokes , but Brooks warned : ‘ He 's far from a definite runner . |
| 2 | The recent Newbury winner has been installed 6–1 favourite by Corals and Ladbrokes but Brooks warned yesterday : |
| 3 | This business in Henley has been targeted four times . |
| 4 | Under the scheme , each branch has been set two targets in the current quarter . |
| 5 | Underlining the endless uncertainty that surrounds any industrial or commercial company that has the misfortune to be controlled by the state , France 's chronic loss-maker Compagnie des Machines Bull SA has been given two months to come up with a viable strategy , French Industry Minister Gerard Longuet said after a news conference where he outlined his policies after six weeks in office . |
| 6 | Underlining the endless uncertainty that surrounds any industrial or commercial company controlled by the state , France 's loss-maker Compagnie des Machines Bull SA has been given two months to come up with a viable strategy , French Industry Minister Gerard Longuet said after a news conference where he outlined his policies after six weeks in office . |
| 7 | Severe acute hepatitis immediately after intravenous amiodarone has been reported four times . |
| 8 | The purpose of this chapter has been to establish three propositions : that religious beliefs have penetrated scientific discussion on many levels , that to reduce the relationship between science and religion to one of conflict is therefore inadequate , but that to construct a revisionist history for apologetic purposes would be just as problematic . |
| 9 | William Bird 's wife Jean had been killed five years before in an horrific road accident involving a drunken driver . |
| 10 | He began to say all the prayers to the Blessed Virgin and the saints which he had been taught at his mother 's knee , and all the while , as he prayed , he was aware that under a mile to the west lay Gribbin Head , where murder had been done eleven months before : murder he had been witness to and had profited by ; murder he had known full well was mortal sin for which , at the Judgement Seat , he would have to give account to God . |
| 11 | Then attention switched to a Superintendent Miller of pugnacious appearance , who described in clipped and guarded police-speak how twenty-year-old Samantha Abberley had been abducted nine days previously . |
| 12 | The response probably would have been smoother because the effect of the 0/1 potency had been completed six weeks earlier . |
| 13 | Unfortunately , some recorded samples were lost because the children were outside in the playground or on excursions from the home , so when the recordings had been transcribed seven samples only were picked for analysis , a random procedure being used to make the selection where more than seven had been recorded . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ The gangs have been going 23 years . |
| 16 | The boy has been arrested 37 times in the last 11 months . |
| 17 | The child has been shown two sets arranged in one-to-one correspondence , and agreed that they have the same number . |
| 18 | That question has been answered three days running . |
| 19 | A BURGLARY victim whose home has been raided 14 times in three years has screwed her TV to the floor . |
| 20 | Now the angry owner , whose home has been burgled four times this year , is offering a £500 reward for information . |
| 21 | A mare in foal has been stabbed fifty times in what her owner describes as a brutal and motiveless attack . |
| 22 | The committee had been established two years earlier by the Wilson Government in response to widespread indignation about rate increases imposed by the new councils in 1974 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | This patient had a history of chest pain , although a negative exercise test had been recorded 7.5 months before the episode . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Our fourth child had been born 10 years previously and I do n't expect anyone believed there would be any more , but my wife and I thought we were getting too old too quickly , so we would have another two ; and on November 5 that year my wife went down to the bonfire which was already alight and saw on top of it a dropside cot she had been keeping , and which had served the four children , a relatively new carricot , and other items of that sort . |
| 27 | The Preston North End boss celebrated his 44th birthday on Sunday but his fate had been sealed 24 hours earlier with the 2-0 home defeat against Hartlepool . |
| 28 | To this end the ODR has been raised five times since May 1989 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | A much sought-after right-winger , Cooper has been transferred four times . |