Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] [adv] by [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aware of the way 25,000 Boer farmers had been defeated only by ten times their number in the war of 1899–1902 , during his boyhood in South Africa , Dudley Clarke was able to interest his chief , Sir John Dill , Chief of the Imperial General Staff , in the idea and it was put to the Prime Minister . |
| 2 | He has been helped there by two years under the expert tuition of All Black Wayne Shelford . |
| 3 | They are thought to have been bought locally by two men with Liverpool-sounding accents at the time the couple disappeared . |
| 4 | They are thought to have been bought locally by two men with Liverpool-sounding accents at the time the couple disappeared . |
| 5 | That settlement has now come through you 'll see the details in the papers er but we also want to have regard to the fact that the award for the and bridges has actually been reduced substantially by thousand pounds the total reduction in that area approach one point five million pounds . |
| 6 | In talking with people in doubt I have been struck repeatedly by one thing . |
| 7 | ‘ Despondent souls , ’ it was said , ‘ and there are not a few of these , seem to have been struck only by one part of the Führer 's speech : where he spoke of the preparations for the winter campaign in 1942–43 . |
| 8 | The reserve has been extended eastwards by 55,000 hectares to the River Usumancinta on the Guatemalan border . |
| 9 | Before long what has been described aptly by one penologist as a malfunction began to appear as it became evident that suspended sentences of imprisonment were being used in place of non-custodial penalties , especially probation orders and fines . |