Example sentences of "have been [vb pp] to the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been compared to the first ascent of Everest . |
| 2 | Similar thought has been given to the next run of ‘ Sir Lamiel ’ scheduled for Friday , March 12th . |
| 3 | The negotiations were extremely complex and detailed and the whole issue has been referred to the next stage of IBOA/Bank procedures which is an Independent Tribunal . |
| 4 | Since the group was formed £17,000 has been donated to the Third World causes mainly through Cafod . |
| 5 | The attack was believed to have been linked to the second anniversary on Dec. 9 of the Palestinian intifada in the occupied territories . |
| 6 | Mozart 's lodge , with others , was subsumed into a larger one , Zur neugekrönten Hoffnung ( New Crowned Hope ) , by which time he had been raised to the third degree , that of Master Mason . |
| 7 | Affidavits from the defendants ' solicitors established that the photocopy affidavit was supplied to them by the second defendant for the purposes of seeking legal advice in circumstances where litigation was contemplated , but did not indicate whether the photocopy sent was a photocopy which the second defendant made for the purpose of instructing his solicitors or a photocopy which had been sent to the second defendant by the employee himself , prepared for the employee 's own purposes which had nothing whatever to do with the defendants obtaining legal advice from their soliticors . |
| 8 | In a few hours of concentrated assault he could destroy months of determined surreptitious growth ; but then he would discover some other , overlooked area where things had been going to the dogs unheeded and some valiantly struggling patch of wood anemone or bluebells had been choked to the last gasp . |
| 9 | And when they joined their ship , they had been plundered to the last farthing , most probably in debt and diseased in mind and body . |
| 10 | He had been posted to the 11th Field Regiment , Royal Artillery , which was newly arrived in Egypt from Iraq , and was immediately sent to the front . |
| 11 | Before departure a prize of 10,000 maravedis had been promised to the first man to sight the New World . |
| 12 | A prize of 10,000 Spanish coins had been promised to the first man to see land and he even claimed this . |
| 13 | He had been taken to the fourth floor at exactly the time of his appointment . |
| 14 | The English had not taken any important part in this ; voyages from Bristol at the end of the fifteenth century had reached a few points in North America and had opened up cod fisheries off Newfoundland , and in the 1550s London merchants had used the northern searoutes to start trading with Russia , but most of the nation 's energies overseas in the first half of the sixteenth century had been devoted to the last and least rewarding of the attempts to conquer France . |
| 15 | Yeah , I attended , I used to run an A T C squad , well I used to run the two different ones in London , and A T C squadrons , and I must say I 've been invited to the last two open nights . |
| 16 | ‘ Ladies and gentlemen , top marks have been awarded to the 3rd Shortfields Pack , whose tableau of Brownies through the years was thought the most original and apt . ’ |