Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Assume next that an urn has been filled with 1000 identical marbles . |
| 2 | Assume next that an urn has been filled with 1000 identical marbles . |
| 3 | The two men , both facing terrorist charges , escaped after producing a gun , which had been hidden in one of their shoes , as they were being escorted back to the prison 's secure unit from attending mass in the chapel . |
| 4 | In June Hubert Ingraham , another former minister who had been dismissed in 1984 [ ibid. ] , was elected leader of the opposition Free National Movement ( FNM ) after the death on May 9 , 1990 , of its former leader Sir Cecil Wallace-Whitfield [ for whom see also p. 35373 ] . |
| 5 | In John Hart 's case , his appeal to the House of Lords against the decisions of the High Court and the Court of Appeal would have been dismissed by four to one , had proceedings as related in Hansard not been allowed as evidence . |
| 6 | The role of these polymorphisms in a predisposition to alcoholic liver disease has now been examined in two studies . |
| 7 | To be fair to Lewis , he followed instructions more closely than in the past and jabbed his way in before breaking up Dixon , who had not been stopped in 15 fights . |
| 8 | I am sure that you will agree that there should be a debate on the Court of Appeal system now that three major cases have been overturned in two years after substantial campaigns . |
| 9 | Middlesbrough had been joined with five neighbouring local authorities to form the county borough of Teesside . |
| 10 | By early July the two Meteor F.4s had been joined by two Meteor T.7s ( and a Tiger Moth ! ) and the crews were introduced to the ‘ joys ’ of jet asymmetric flying . |
| 11 | Eventually , after she had been joined by two others whose grasp of the English language was as poor as hers , they booked in to two rooms . |
| 12 | At Philadelphia he had been joined by two others in what was obviously a preplanned meeting since the moment dinner was cleared away and a new round of gin and diet tonics ordered they began a miniature board meeting . |
| 13 | Following the elections to the Basque parliament on Oct. 28 , 1990 , the formation of a new regional government had been delayed for three months due to the breakdown of talks between the two parties which had made up the previous governing coalition — the Basque Nationalist Party ( PNV ) , which had emerged as the largest single party , with 22 seats , and the Basque Socialist Party ( PSE-PSOE ) which had been beaten into second place . |
| 14 | The implementation of Part V of the FSA ( covering Offers of Unlisted Securities ) has been delayed since 1986 and since that time the EC directive on prospectuses has been adopted . |
| 15 | Staff in the information office told me that the train had been delayed until 18.15 . |
| 16 | The plutonium-powered scientific space probe Galileo , whose launch had been delayed by 11 days due to a combination of technical faults and attempts by anti-nuclear activists to gain a court injunction to ground it , was launched on Oct. 17 , 1989 , aboard the space shuttle Atlantis . |
| 17 | Announcement of the England team , originally scheduled for 10.00am , had been delayed by two hours so that Gooch could give Daffy the bad news . |
| 18 | 1.21 The plaintiff 's rights in relation to medical examinations by the defendant 's doctor have been redefined in two cases . |
| 19 | His most important theme is the way in which , uniquely among imperial powers , British concepts of masculinity — not least as fostered in public schools — had been redefined by 1914 in the perceived interest of imperial administrative efficiency ‘ to mean not sexual prowess and maturity , but sexual restraint ’ . |
| 20 | A Staff Committee had been mooted as one way of overcoming these difficulties . |
| 21 | The proposal for a new trading zone and for regional economic co-operation had first been mooted in 1989 by Turkey , which was responsible for convening this meeting . |
| 22 | That machine has now gone back to being called the Model 54 and will appear as a 45MHz TAB-packaged four-way , as had already been intended at one time . |
| 23 | She had been paralysed for thirty years . |
| 24 | When operating with 112 Squadron FX760 was regularly flown by ‘ A ’ Flight Commander F/L R A Wild DFC , an Australian , who had been posted to 112 Squadron from 3 RAAF Squadron on June 1 , 1944 . |
| 25 | " He 's been posted to one of those bloody awful oil-rigs in the North Sea , and he wo n't be back till Christmas . |
| 26 | Geraldine , who worked as accounts clerk at Yarmouth Marine Base left to accompany her RAF husband to Cyprus where he has been posted for three years . |
| 27 | The cry of " Wilkes and Liberty " had first been heard in 1763 when the publisher of the anti-Government North Briton had been imprisoned after the issue of a general warrant . |
| 28 | Old Mother Jacobsen had once told her how Møn — ‘ The Maid ’ — had been languishing in the frozen Arctic Circle , abandoned by her sun-craving lover , when her cries of anguish had been heard by two giants . |
| 29 | The letter was thought to have been heard by one-quarter of the population . |
| 30 | The Convention has currently been ratified by 14 European states . |