Example sentences of "[adv] been [vb pp] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , in 1614 James I , believing that he was making presents more valuable than his ambassadors at foreign courts were receiving , ordered that in future the French and Spanish resident ambassadors , who had hitherto been given 4,000 ounces of plate on their departure , should in future receive only half as much and that the representatives of lesser states should also have their customary allowance cut by half . |
| 2 | ‘ And apart from Barbra arriving late — which she would n't have done had she only been given one hairdresser instead of three , because all three insisted on fixing her hair , and that took time — everything went smoothly . ’ |
| 3 | We are not alone in having the grant cut , some of the governing bodies have only been given one year 's notice or nothing at all . |
| 4 | They 'd only been beaten 3 times this season so you feared the worst , but it was Oxford who struck next ; another no goal , or no penalty , according to Kevin Keegan . |
| 5 | This mass migration to the inland has only been recorded three times in the past century , and scientists are tagging thousands of birds , you attempt to get a log of the pelican 's travels and try to understand what makes them leave their normally safe havens . |
| 6 | The Rev. Francis Lambert had only been ordained three weeks before his death , the dedication of this window taking place on Sept. 4th 1892 . |
| 7 | But the workers have only been paid nine pounds for the month . |
| 8 | His two eldest , William ( 19 ) and Thomas ( 16 ) and even Richard ( 14 ) had all been described four years earlier , in the 1841 census , as miners . |
| 9 | I saw now exactly why , when General Francis 's name came up , Daisy bemoaned the fact that she had not been born twenty years earlier . |
| 10 | If applications have not been received five months into bodies ’ financial years it is assumed by the Council that they do not need , and therefore do not intend to apply for , grant aid . |
| 11 | However , the rest of the complex , claimed to be the biggest in Europe and including a hotel , conference centre and extensive facilites for other sports , has , through contractual difficulties , still not been opened six months after the planned date . |
| 12 | Law by convention is never complete , because new issues constantly arise that have not been settled one way or the other by whatever institutions have conventional authority to decide them . |
| 13 | He went on to tell Oliver the story of another young boy , who had gone to the police to tell them about the gang , but who had finally been hanged one morning for being a thief . |
| 14 | Marathon had already been granted two production licenses in the western edge of Cardigan Bay and St George 's Channel , West Wales . |
| 15 | The farmer Colin French , who 'd already been prosecuted five times , was given a suspended jail sentence and banned from keeping four species of farm animal for fifteen years . |
| 16 | As he had already been interviewed four times and been in police custody for over 24 hours , the expectation would be that a solicitor might well consider that , at least for that evening , enough was enough and that he ought to advise his client not to answer further questions … . |
| 17 | The Law Society produced a paper on the subject in 1981 against the background of the difficulties mentioned above to which the attention of the Royal Commission on Legal Services had already been drawn five years previously . |
| 18 | ‘ A prisoner , who it was alleged had recently been refused Compassionate Home Leave to visit a dangerously ill relative , had already been allowed three visits over a period of three weeks . |
| 19 | He 'd apparently hit the central barrier and lost control , and has already been fined 250 pounds for driving without due care and attention . |
| 20 | He 's already been fined 250 pounds for driving without due care and attention . |
| 21 | He has already been booked four times this season and two more cautions will result in automatic suspension . |
| 22 | In those countries where the royalty has already been introduced one option chosen by some governments has been to use part of the income from the levy to set up a fund to give special help to the national music scene . |
| 23 | I had a good job as an electronics engineer and have just been given three months notice , losing all my pension rights after working 26 years for the same company . |
| 24 | Men have always been paid 5 colones more than women or children and we all do exactly the same work . |
| 25 | Old Fakrid 's hardly been gone two time units and already our clever First Pilot has begun to sound exactly like him . |
| 26 | Poor widows in Barking and Dagenham parishes in the Forest of Hainault had formerly been allowed one load of wood yearly from the ‘ King 's woods ’ : the disafforesting Act of 1851 provided that an equivalent sum should be invested in Consols , and the income applied to a distribution of coal at Christmas to the widows . |
| 27 | Although it retains the overall configuration and shape of previous models , the BV will be a substantially different aircraft with a seven-foot increase in fuselage length over the Guylfstream IV , an entirely new wing of thirteen feet greater span with an airfoil section optimised for high-altitude , high-speed operation , an enlarged flight deck ( the airstair door has also been moved five feet aft for easier cabin access ) , and new braking , nose-wheel steering and electrical systems . |
| 28 | He 's also been banned three times for excess alcohol , . |
| 29 | A new PICKUP Scotland EUROPE unit has now been guaranteed three years ' funding from Scottish Enterprise . |
| 30 | Rick Shearman , defending , said : ‘ She has now been raped four times . |