Example sentences of "been [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Saturated world markets , together with the international embargo against Iraq ( which had been the fifth largest importer of Canadian wheat in 1989 ) , meant , however , that the country 's transport and storage facilities were placed under considerable strain . |
| 2 | They were said to face summary execution if found guilty of complicity in what had been the fifth rumoured coup attempt since the military took power in June 1989 . |
| 3 | Kendal had long been the second most important wool town in the country : Carlisle was the biggest town in the Border Marches . |
| 4 | Rufus could not remember the man 's name , only that he had been the second visitor to Wyvis Hall , the gardener being the first . |
| 5 | This change has , however , been accompanied by a rise in home ownership and an explosion in house prices , which has been the second force at work affecting the distribution of wealth . |
| 6 | Or the vendor may have been the second defendant , also called Swiss Atlantic Holdings Ltd. , a company incorporated in the British Virgin Islands on 23 September 1988 and to which company all the assets of the U.K. Swiss Atlantic Holdings Ltd. had , following an agreement of 26 October 1988 , been transferred . |
| 7 | This has been the second most successful method of recruitment ; x new members were recruited by Head Office in 1992 . |
| 8 | This has been the second most successful method of recruitment . |
| 9 | " Funny , I did n't think I 'd hit him , but I suppose I must have — must 've been the second shot . |
| 10 | The number of deaths attributable to political violence since 1984 , according to the South African Institute of Race Relations ( SAIRR ) , had totalled 11,910. 1991 had been the second worst year since 1984 , but the figure of 2,672 for the year was 28 per cent down on 1990 . |
| 11 | This was the winner against Chesterfield scored by Simon Brain after 12 minutes and this should have been the second goal . |
| 12 | The E. Walters clothing factories have been the second biggest employers in the north Herefordshire town of Kington for the past thirty years . |
| 13 | One man , Ivan Masterson , talks about how he helped pull people from the rubble and says : ‘ It must have been the second body I helped to take out … it was an awful shock seeing my uncle there with his wife beside him . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ ICI has been the first in the field with major products , such as polyester fibre and polythene . |
| 15 | Alesi 's had been the first leading car to stop during the race and the merit in changing tyres became clear when he immediately set the fastest lap of the race . |
| 16 | Sister Cooney had been the first to hint it to him . |
| 17 | Although his party has been the first of the smaller satellite parties to adopt a more independent role , Mr Gerlach , aged 61 , clearly felt that he too may not survive the popular anger . |
| 18 | Although his party has been the first of the smaller satellite parties to adopt a more independent role , Mr Gerlach , aged 61 , clearly felt that he too may not survive the popular anger . |
| 19 | Although his party has been the first of the smaller satellite parties to adopt a more independent role , Mr Gerlach , aged 61 , clearly felt that he too may not be able to survive the revolutionary climate of popular anger . |
| 20 | Shops selling large electrical goods such as television sets , hi-fi and washing machines have been the first to suffer from the slowdown in spending , while large chains like Comet and Dixons have been losing market share to small independent shopkeepers . |
| 21 | He is not a sceptic about the reality of global warming — he can claim to have been the first man to notice it — but he does not believe it is necessarily harmful . |
| 22 | In the West at least people have identified with a threatened world and the pressure groups have been the first instruments of that identification . |
| 23 | The Royal Navy had been the first Service to react strongly to the Sandys Reformation . |
| 24 | Another characteristic of this recession is that financial and property businesses have been the first to feel the pain of collapsing prices and profits . |
| 25 | Property developers have been the first to suffer , with credit lines cut off , interest costs rising and prices beginning to slip . |
| 26 | He claims to have been the first to produce any . |
| 27 | Craig Matthews , another South African , had been the first choice before he failed a medical . |
| 28 | She had been the first Western politician to reach the Kurds . |
| 29 | ‘ What , ’ they asked , ‘ had been the first sign that the forests were in decline ? ’ |
| 30 | These early nautiloids were probably predators also , and if this were so they may have been the first rapidly moving , efficient hunters in the sea . |