Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [adj] [noun sg] [verb] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | For more than forty years American football has been symbol of patriotism at the Upper Heyford airbase . |
| 2 | Kenya 's hydro-electric resource potential is some 700 MW but construction of the 140 MW Kiambere dam has been delayed by lack of finance and will not be available until at least 1988 . |
| 3 | The KPMG barometer suggests that over the six years that fraud has been tracked , Scotland has been less affected than most regions , with total fraud in the overall period of £34.1 million or 2.1 per cent of the UK total reported . |
| 4 | In Leicestershire , a six acre disused quarry had been developed into a large fish pond providing an attraction for anglers and the farmer with a lucrative alternate source of income . |
| 5 | The body of a seventy six year old man has been found in a shop in Northampton . |
| 6 | Over the past year , the counsellors have helped 51 people to deal with a wide range of problems , including marital breakdown , sexual abuse , bereavement and terminal illness , and almost three times that number have been given information and informal counselling . |
| 7 | Over the three days that Forester had been observing , his schedule had been consistent to within a few minutes either way . |
| 8 | The twenty three year old footballer had been drinking and became involved in a brawl in Church Street after friends tried to stop him driving because he 'd drunk too much . |
| 9 | The twenty three year old footballer had been drinking and became involved in a brawl in Church Street after friends tried to stop him driving because he 'd drunk too much . |
| 10 | The twenty three year old footballer had been drinking and became involved in a brawl in Church Street after friends tried to stop him driving because he 'd drunk too much . |
| 11 | The twenty three year old footballer had been drinking and became involved in a brawl in Church Street after friends tried to stop him driving because he 'd drunk too much . |
| 12 | Within seventy minutes each plane has been unloaded , reloaded and winging its way to destination cities . |
| 13 | A fourteen year old boy has been charged with wounding with intent after a boy of the same age was stabbed in the back . |
| 14 | A fourteen year old boy has been killed while playing with friends at a derelict manor house . |
| 15 | The body of a sixty year old man has been discovered in a council flat , almost three months after he died of natural causes . |
| 16 | A 93 year old woman has been tricked out of her life savings and pension book . |
| 17 | A 32 year old manager may be full of vigour , enthusiasm and malleable but a 52 year old manager has been through a couple of recessions , knows the ropes and cap pull a few more rabbits out of the hat . |
| 18 | A twenty-three year old woman has been accused of causing the death of another woman by driving dangerously at speeds of up to 90 miles an hour with her one-year-old daughter on her lap . |
| 19 | A 16 year old youth and a 33 year old man have been charged with an assault on police . |
| 20 | Yet , on the one hand this contradiction has been hidden by privileging Gregory 's comments and neglecting the importance of the Epistulae Austrasiacae and the writings of Venantius Fortunatus ; on the other , it has been explained by the apparent lack of educational opportunities available to Gregory in the households of Nicetius and Avitus . |
| 21 | A third passenger , aged fifteen , has been charged with aggravated vehicle taking , and another seventeen year old youth has been arrested this afternoon . |
| 22 | A fifteen year old boy has been charged following a crash in which two girls were seriously injured . |
| 23 | An artist 's impression of a man who attacked a twelve year old girl has been released by police . |
| 24 | An eighty-six year old man has been told that he ca n't keep his artificial legs because he 's too accident prone . |
| 25 | A twenty one year old student has been cleared at the Old Bailey of raping another student after a drunken Christmas party . |
| 26 | An eighty five year old woman has been attacked in her bed by two men who then ransacked her house . |
| 27 | During the past 40 years this approach has been tested sporadically in Britain and extensively on the Continent . |
| 28 | Roger Kelly , who coordinates its work explains : ‘ For 15 years this place has been going through a slow , organic evolution . |
| 29 | Police on Teesside expect to find that the maroon coloured ERF tractor unit and its 40 ft long trailer have been abandoned and the cargo removed . |
| 30 | A twenty year old man has been called in for a chat with an inspector . |