Example sentences of "in [num] [conj] have been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Greer 's CSE Mathematics Book 1 was first published in 1978 — it is now into its fifth reprint ; Book 2 was first published in 1979 and has been reprinted twice . |
| 2 | LCH was incorporated as a company in 1888 and has been providing market services continuously for more than a century . |
| 3 | Deene was acquired by Sir Robert Brudenell in 1514 and has been lived in ever since by his descendants including the 7th Earl of Cardigan who led the Charge of the Light Brigade . |
| 4 | The first of these aid and trade agreements was signed in 1975 and has been renewed four times . |
| 5 | This was Henry Stafford , duke of Buckingham , who had come of age in 1473 but had been refused any political role by Edward IV . |
| 6 | This was Henry Stafford , duke of Buckingham , who had come of age in 1473 but had been refused any political role by Edward IV . |
| 7 | The Islamic Republic of Mauritania , formerly part of French West Africa , gained full independence in 1960 and has been ruled since a military coup in 1978 by a Military Council of National Salvation ( Comité militaire de salut national — CMSN ) , headed by a chairman ( currently Col. Moaouia Ould Sidi Mohamed Taya ) who is President of the Republic and whose executive power derives from a Constitutional Charter published in 1978 . |
| 8 | The prime candidate for the job was General Henri Giraud , a courageous soldier who had opposed the armistice in 1940 and had been imprisoned by the Germans before escaping early in 1942 . |
| 9 | A phased return of responsibility from the army to the civilian police was begun in 1976 and had been completed for most of the region by early 1977 . |
| 10 | The first course began in 1978 and has been recruiting satisfactorily ever since on an annual basis . |
| 11 | Engraved with a crest and supported on a cylindrical stem , the eye-bath was made in London in 1818 and had been discovered in the collection of a West Yorkshire couple . |
| 12 | The process was developed in 1953 and has been licensed out to more than 60 plants in numerous countries . |
| 13 | He had n't achieved much since his Commonwealth Games gold medals in 1982 and had been eliminated in the semi-finals at the Los Angeles Olympics . |
| 14 | The original sixteenth-century clock was badly damaged in 1945 and has been restored , somewhat incongruously , with mosaic figures of model socialist workers . |
| 15 | Another unexpected disappearance from the scene was that of the defence minister himself , Adnan Khairallah , the President 's cousin , reported early in 1989 as having been dismissed and later to have died in a helicopter crash . |
| 16 | The latter was the padre to 1 SAS Regiment in 1944–5 but has been accorded the status of ‘ Honorary Original ’ . |
| 17 | This body was established by Harold Wilson in 1974 and has been retained by his successors . |
| 18 | Clayton had visited Australia in 1988 and had been given a firm job offer by the Sydney Morning Herald . |
| 19 | Mr Telford , who took redundancy from the pit in 1988 and had been working as a mining contractor at Rossington , near Doncaster , allegedly threatened a man with the gun to gain entry . |
| 20 | Pravda claims that red mercury was first synthesised in 1968 and has been smuggled out of Russia for many years . |
| 21 | David Salter , eighth last year and fifth in 1991 , will be joined again by Tom McKeith , who was third in the initial Ipswich success in 1990 but has been missing since . |
| 22 | The court was told Ninham had been convicted of indecently assaulting youngsters in 1990 and had been placed on probation medication to control his sex drive . |
| 23 | The village has one general store , an antiques shop , a garage , two public houses and a post office which was opened in 1851 and has been run by the same family since that date . |