Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] in a [num] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Conversely , many of those in the amalgamated force who had previously worn helmets in their earlier life and had been moved into flat caps in 1969 welcomed the return to ‘ natural ’ apparel and their own version of a correct bodily disposition which had been prescribed in a 1958 edition of the Northumberland County Police Standing Orders .
2 Unease about the financial stability of the Japanese banking system has been reflected in a 40 p.c. fall in the value of bank shares since the beginning of April .
3 It has been detected in a dozen systems in the US and yesterday the Swiss government announced that 75 of its computers were infected .
4 They had previously been kept in an 80 gallon tank where the owner had rarely seen them .
5 If this package had had to go through national parliaments , it would not have been achieved in a hundred years ! ’
6 In 1984 , Mr Hull was asked to sell two oil paintings which had been described in a 1980 auction catalogue as being by Gabriele Munter , an artist of the German expressionist school .
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