Example sentences of "have been [vb pp] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Logging in the region has been halted since 1990 by court actions to protect the habitat of the northern spotted owl , leading to thousands of job losses [ see EDs 70 ; passim ] . |
| 2 | Par for this giant among seaside courses has been amended to 73 for the Amateur Championship , ‘ but today it 's more like 76 ’ declared club professional , Dai Stevenson . |
| 3 | Scottish Office officials said yesterday that a Scottish Environmental Protection Agency ( SEPA ) could be operational by 1996 , although its creation has been opposed by 40 local authorities and six of the seven river purification boards . |
| 4 | An open meeting has been arranged for 11 a.m. on Tuesday 29th October in Room 29 ( Upstairs Lab ) . |
| 5 | A meeting has been arranged for two representatives from each institute owning their own halls at the W I centre in Chelmsford on Monday the twenty first October from ten until twelve noon noon . |
| 6 | And finally , not on the green sheet , I will tell you , to put you all out of your misery , that tea has been arranged for six thirty . |
| 7 | Following the very successful session with at the January Q.T. Day a further programme has been arranged for 7 July at the ( the venue to be confirmed ) . |
| 8 | 10 IN-SERVICE DAYS Teaching the Elderly , this day has been arranged for 12 May — London venue to be notified later . |
| 9 | The whole museum has been built by one man , our membership secretary , Philip Field , over a period of more than a decade . |
| 10 | Charlemagne , a little book which has been written for 12 to 16 year olds ( but suitable for all ages ) would make an ideal present . |
| 11 | An excavated example has been dated to 100 AD . |
| 12 | Another site , some distance from the main concentrations , where a major change has been dated to 350 — 60 is the villa at Great Casterton . |
| 13 | It has been dated between 1280 and the final decade of the thirteenth century . |
| 14 | Mark Twain fancifully observed that God had modelled heaven on Mauritius , a thought which has been echoed by thousands of travellers who have since discovered the untapped beauty and raw charm of this lovely isle . |
| 15 | IN HIS preview of England 's tour of New Zealand ( WCM Jan ) , Steven Lynch alluded to the first England tour of New Zealand in 1929–30 as being the only time a country has been engaged in two Test series simultaneously . |
| 16 | Royal Insurance has bought 75 IV workstations for its UK and Republic of Ireland branches and uses various programs , including Writing for Results , a guide to good business writing which has been developed by IIS . |
| 17 | Herringbroom Studio has been developed by three working painters — Piers Ottey , Catherine Somerville and Christopher Baker . |
| 18 | This has been highlighted in two lines of decisions in road traffic cases where the plaintiffs ' damages have been reduced , even though they in no way caused or contributed to the accidents in which they were injured . |
| 19 | Ozone has been monitored at 17 places since 1985 . |
| 20 | The slope indicates a specific activity of 18,000 units/mg ; for comparison , the specific activity of purified M. Eco RII has been determined to 21,100 units/mg ( 24 ) . |
| 21 | Also on a health care note , public relations executive Margaret Michell has been appointed as one of five non-executive directors of the new North Staffordshire Hospital Centre Trust . |
| 22 | A high flying professor of accountancy has been appointed to one of the top jobs at the Treasury with a salary of £100,000-a-year , the Prime Minister 's Office announced . |
| 23 | FORMER champion hurdler Beech Road has been cut to 12–1 for Saturday 's Mackeson Gold Cup even though there is an outside chance he could miss the race . |
| 24 | Meanwhile , Richard Dunwoody , currently 16 winners ahead of reigning title holder Peter Scudamore , has been cut to 4–9 ( from 4–6 ) to land his first jockey 's championship . |
| 25 | The result means that Lillywhite 's advantage has been cut to 20 seconds by Simensen , now in second place , with today 's 86-mile stage from Liverpool to Salford and tomorrow 's city-centre circuit race at Manchester remaining . |
| 26 | The workforce of 8,000 before the revolution has been cut to 5,800 through early retirement and natural wastage ; even so , hundreds are on short-time , and sackings are inevitable . |
| 27 | Originally it had been planned to convert five oil/gas-fired power stations to coal but this programme has been cut to three . |
| 28 | The fringe on this smooth style has been cut to three different lengths . |
| 29 | I therefore invite him to express his regret that , according to the figures published by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office last week , United Kingdom support for United Nations development agencies has been cut by 38 per cent . |
| 30 | The Prime Minister told my right hon. Friend the Member for Islwyn ( Mr. Kinnock ) that the Government make a large contribution to the UN development agencies , but he must be aware that our contribution has been cut by 38 per cent . |