Example sentences of "[been] [verb] [prep] the [num] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The left also has to draw itself out of the mire into which it has been plunged following the 1960s renaissance of Marxist ideas in the Labour movement . |
| 2 | The two countries had yet to finalize a peace treaty formally ending the conflict which had effectively been halted by the 1988 ceasefire agreement [ see pp. 36568-69 ] . |
| 3 | Their task will be to help otters and seals which have been contaminated by the seven mile long oil slick . |
| 4 | Monopoly policy was comprehensively reassessed in the 1973 Fair Trading Act and has been amended in the 1980 Competition Act . |
| 5 | Awards chairman Alan Peaford told the audience at Torquay that 1,266 entries , the second highest so far , had been received for the 1992 contest , from every continent except Antarctica . |
| 6 | According to the International Herald Tribune ( Keller , 1988 ) there are reports from Moscow that five planned Soviet nuclear power stations have been cancelled since the 1986 disaster in the Ukraine . |
| 7 | The Iran-US claims tribunal at the International Court of Justice at The Hague ruled on May 6 that Iran was entitled to receive compensation from the USA for non-military assets in the USA which had been frozen following the 1979 seizure of the US embassy in Tehran . |
| 8 | A new introductory video has been installed for the 1990 season . |
| 9 | The amount of aid affected included US$56,000,000 which had not yet been disbursed from the 1990 programme and US$57,200,000 in allocations for fiscal 1991 . |
| 10 | Apart from the fact that the 1971 Act has been superseded by the 1990 Act , it is likely that this definition will also be extended to include any or all of the following Acts : |
| 11 | The funding of non-university higher education ( i.e. polytechnics and colleges of higher education ) now gives them similar autonomy , having been transferred by the 1988 Education Reform Act from local authority to central government responsibility , with a Polytechnics and Colleges Funding Council ( PCFC ) parallel to the UFC . |
| 12 | Arróspide [ see also p. 34182 ] was at the time in a Paris prison awaiting trial for offences committed in France , and his extradition had already been sought for the 1987 supermarket bombing in Barcelona [ for which see p. 35851 ] . |
| 13 | As was noted in Chapter 3 , no very great resistance had been mounted to the employment of women in the early days , partly because the numbers were small , partly because the union had been weakened by the 1872–3 strike , and partly , it must be remembered , because the girls recruited to the trade were often the daughters of print workers . |
| 14 | The two purposes of s.60 have been separated in the 1976 Act , 5.33 being concerned with the sale of liquor outwith the licence-holder 's premises . |
| 15 | REJECTED the offer of running rights over the Rhyd-ddu-Porthmadog section of the W.H.R which would have been leased to the '64 Company . |
| 16 | In these prints a combination of two and sometimes three colours has been used on the one plate . |
| 17 | The privilege half illustrated was issued to a female as a hunk was cut out of the top of the ticket , and could have been used by the one lady employee , or the wife or female dependant of an employee of the B.C.R. , or any other railway , who took a ride on the 17th January 1934 . |
| 18 | Erm I would say however that there has been far more consistency about the view taken of the need for greenbelt protection on the part of the bodies and individuals I represent than has been shown by the two planning authorities judging from all the changes that they have propagated . |
| 19 | The railway line between the Crystal Palace ( Low Level ) and Beckenham , which had been closed during the 1914–18 war , was electrified and reopened in 1929 . |
| 20 | An era of ultranationalism had withered the fragile plant of democracy whose seed had been sown in the 1890 constitution , and the 1930s was interpreted as a period of aberration in Japan 's progress towards a democratic society . |
| 21 | We believe on reflection that our supporters will recognize that our action has been actuated by the one desire to maintain first class soccer in Northants . ’ |
| 22 | James Briggs , of Stone House , Coniscliffe Road , Darlington , has been recognised in the 1991/1992 Shooting Times Conservation Awards . |
| 23 | Not only can I confirm my hon. Friend 's figures , I can go further and tell him that an additional £115 million has been invested by the three health authorities that his patients use in Cambridge , Peterborough , and West Norfolk and Wisbech . |
| 24 | The minimum threshold for parties to win seats had been raised since the 1988 election from 1 to 1.5 per cent of the vote . |
| 25 | Unlike Khruschev , Gorbachev had been raised after the 1917 revolution , was less concerned with ideological radicalism and more interested in the protection and strengthening of the USSR than in an active Third World policy . |
| 26 | William Hutton , the son of a framework knitter , was sent to work at Derby 's silk mill in 1730 ; he later cursed his luck for having been born in the one city in the world where such could have been his fate . |
| 27 | Senoi peoples have been portrayed on the one hand as the quintessential noble savages by perpetrators of ‘ Senoi Dream Theory ’ ( Stewart 1951 , 1954 ; Garfield 1974 ) and on the other as raging bloodthirsty killers by proponents of instinctive human aggression ( Paul 1978 ; Eibl-Eibesfeldt 1979 ; Wilson 1978 ) . |
| 28 | Because there is a good general correspondence between courses she has been exempted from the 3 history compulsory basic modules and from 2 politics ones . |
| 29 | It has been entered for the 1992 Quality Brick Awards . |
| 30 | Following a serious collision at the Pleasure Beach in 1980 , 705 was scrapped , but happily 706 has been restored for the 1985 Centenary , reviving a long tradition of open toppers on the Promenade . |