Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Opened for signature at UNCED in Rio in June 1992 [ see ED 59-60 ] , the biodiversity convention had 160 signatories to date , and had been ratified by six countries ; it thus needed 24 more ratifications in order to come into effect . |
| 32 | The international global warming treaty , signed at last year 's Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro , has so far been ratified by 31 nations , out of the 50 required for entry into force . |
| 33 | As of Oct. 31 , 1989 , it had been ratified by 15 states ( see pp. 35984 ; 36565 for Turkey 's ratification in February 1988 ) . |
| 34 | The call had been traced to one of a bank of three public booths in Saffron Walden , a market-town in western Essex , just off the M11 motorway from London to Cambridge . |
| 35 | Favoured with the inside story of the Fawaz Younis kidnapping and other government ‘ exclusives ’ , Emerson 's special relationship with Federal law-enforcement agencies was again on display when he quoted unnamed Washington sources to the effect that allegations of DEA involvement in the Lockerbie disaster had been traced to one Lester Knox Coleman , a ‘ disgruntled former DEA confidential informant who was terminated ’ . |
| 36 | As we have seen , the prestigious ultra-Rightist politician , José Calvo Sotelo , had been assassinated on 13 July . |
| 37 | International concern over the spate of killings of rural union leaders was further heightened by the wounding in an assassination attempt on March 4 of Carlos Cabral , president of the Farmworkers ' Union in Rio Maria in the jungle state of Pará ( and the son-in-law of the union 's founder , Joao Canuto , who had himself been assassinated in 1985 ) . |
| 38 | In little over a year since the British government gave its approval to CB , the Home Office has been inundated with six to eight thousand complaints of interference each month . |
| 39 | At the other end of the scale three cases allegedly had been limited to one isolated incident . |
| 40 | Clerk of the course Nicholas Beaumont said : ‘ The number of people per box would have been limited to six , the top floor of the Royal enclosure to 435 instead of over 5,000 and the stalls seats to 300 instead of 2,000 . ’ |
| 41 | Shearer has been limited to five short appearances as substitute so far this season as he recovers from knee ligament trouble . |
| 42 | Shearer has been limited to five short appearances as substitute so far this season as he recovers from knee ligament trouble . |
| 43 | It 's Thee Headcoats ( Already ) ’ , the latest release from ex-Milkshake BILLY CHILDISH , Mudhoney frontman MARK ARM 's debut solo single , a cover of Bob Dylan 's ‘ Masters of War ’ , which has been limited to 5,000 copies , SISTER DOUBLE HAPPINESS ’ , ‘ Wheels A-Spinning ’ single and DICKLESS ’ ‘ I 'm A Man' , which should reach the shops soon . |
| 44 | It 's Thee Headcoats ( Already ) ’ , the latest release from ex-Milkshake BILLY CHILDISH , Mudhoney frontman MARK ARM 's debut solo single , a cover of Bob Dylan 's ‘ Masters of War ’ , which has been limited to 5,000 copies , SISTER DOUBLE HAPPINESS ’ , ‘ Wheels A-Spinning ’ single and DICKLESS ’ ‘ I 'm A Man' , which should reach the shops soon . |
| 45 | The capacity of the stadium has been limited to 17,000 with Dublin being allocated 10,000 , 5,000 to Wexford and the remainder set aside for neutrals . |
| 46 | Many members were concerned that the Sunday club searches had become too crowded , and club membership has now been limited to 75 people . |
| 47 | The targets have been limited to three Cath , around three . |
| 48 | A placing in which selected shareholders ( usually investing institutions ) are invited to buy up to 15 million ( this had been limited to 3 million until 1986 ) of additional equity . |
| 49 | Now it 's true that since the second world war all wars have been limited in one sense or another , but then comes the question , if you do , in fact , succeed in defining objectives er and de in defining the means to those objectives , how can you know in fact that you possess genuine capability without putting it to the test , without actually fighting the war and then finding that you can not win it ? |
| 50 | Research into the history of corporate finance during the period before 1914 has been limited by two major difficulties . |
| 51 | Ben may not have been much of a theatre-goer , but he would no doubt have been fascinated by one unexpected visit in the June of 1801 : |
| 52 | The vehicles were definitely wearing out now , Nos. 64 and 72 had already been withdrawn in 1955 , 490 was withdrawn in June 1957 and 71 in May 1958 , followed by 489 in September 1958 . |
| 53 | Some of these workers may have just entered the labour market from school , some may have been made redundant from their previous jobs , some may have been sacked for one reason or another and many will have quit their previous jobs in order to create time to search for more satisfactory ones . |
| 54 | And the new boss of Burton , Laurence Cooklin , has been sacked after 15 months with a £773,00 pay-off , with more to come . |
| 55 | She has previously been sacked from one of her schools because she slept with her pupils . |
| 56 | A considerable amount of research on energy-based and energy-budget climatology had been undertaken since 1956 when Budyko ( translated 1958 ) attempted a heat balance of the earth 's surface and proceeded from equations of where |
| 57 | The detailed work has been undertaken by two subgroups , also multi agency and with practitioner involvement . |
| 58 | A telephone call reported a device had been placed on one of the SVR train-sets . |
| 59 | The remains of the king and his father had been removed on Aug. 16 from Burg Hohenzollern at Hechingen , near Stuttgart , where they had been placed in 1952 — having been recovered from Nazi hands during the last days of the Second World War . |
| 60 | It was probably around this time that he left the household of his cousin Richard Neville earl of Warwick , where he had been placed in 1465 . |