Example sentences of "[noun prp] have been [vb pp] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | William Bird 's wife Jean had been killed five years before in an horrific road accident involving a drunken driver . |
| 2 | Kitty spoke of a new lair , a vixen biting the ear of a cub , an owl on a rat , the sound of a wolf although everyone knew the last wolf in England had been killed some years before about forty miles to the south , near the Bay . |
| 3 | If B. Hunslett had been born 50 years ago , he would have been an ideal candidate for the Hitler Youth Movement . |
| 4 | The Russian Sputnik had been launched two years before , and produced in the United States a feverish alarm lest their Communist competitors should outstrip them in a world increasingly penetrated by science and technology . |
| 5 | Since 1947 Spoonbills have been recorded each year , except in 1959 , 1960 , 1962 , 1963 , 1969 , 1973 , and 1976 , and there were records involving 82 birds . |
| 6 | The report says applications to mine at 652 new sites in England and Wales have been made this year . |