Example sentences of "[num] [pron] [verb] been [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An increasing number of women , perhaps career women in their 30s who have been regular Pill users for several years , may wish to check if they are ovulating before planning the timing of a pregnancy . |
| 2 | Whereas in 1972 there had been 462 persons employed in the catching sector , this had declined to 217 by 1982 . |
| 3 | In 1885 there had been 402 members ; in 1903 there were 1,248 . |
| 4 | Between 1972 and 1985 there had been significant energy savings in OECD countries . |
| 5 | Since 1979 there has been some contraction of nationalized industries . |
| 6 | Since 1979 there has been fresh emphasis on the need to roll back the frontiers of the state . |
| 7 | In 1920 there had been six London evenings . |
| 8 | In 1940 and 1941 there had been few links between Free France and the clandestine movements in France . |
| 9 | In 1969 there had been major changes in the value of the German mark and French franc which threatened to damage EEC internal trade . |
| 10 | Sir Anthony goes on : ‘ The information I have been given by the joint liquidators of BCGM [ the British fund ] and BCI [ in Gibraltar ] indicates that in the period up to December 1984 there had been frequent movements of money or securities between the United Kingdom funds and the Jersey funds and , most important of all , that at December 1984 the gilt-edged securities and cash held for the Jersey funds were at least some £3.65 million less than the funds ’ obligations to investors . |
| 11 | Since 1984 there have been constant campaigns alerting the public in Thailand to the dangers of HIV , AIDS , and sexually transmitted diseases . |
| 12 | And since the mid-1990s there have been more prison riots in Britain than in any other European country . |
| 13 | In parish churches , however , there was a long period of stagnation , although there were improvements in standards and taste , and until the time of Vatican II there had been few developments in the Liturgy and its music . |
| 14 | In 1913 there had been 59,400 km. of navigable internal waterways , but this was reduced to 53,900 by 1922 , a relatively small decline compared with the railways . |
| 15 | Since 1976 there has been great erosion of respect for local government . |
| 16 | Between 1961 and 1976 there have been 14 records : in January ( two ) , March ( four ) , April ( two ) , May ( one ) , August ( three ) , September ( one ) , and November ( one ) . |
| 17 | In July 1916 there had been 978,112 state pensioners ; by 1924 there were 916,771 , over 61,000 fewer . |
| 18 | The light over No. 6 which has been burning night and day for 2 months , now operates as it should — from dusk to dawn . |
| 19 | Now in America , through the nineteen seventies and eighties there 's been increasing concern , an increasing concern that the states were becoming more and more dependent on the federal government and these figures suggest that there was good reasons , this was one of Ronald Reagan 's campaign themes , this was a g a growing concern , he said the federal system has been shattered , it 's , it 's changed its character , the states are now dependent on the federal government and this is dreadful and we must , we must change this . |
| 20 | To dismiss this comment simply as Bridgeman being a poacher turned gamekeeper would be to miss the point , which is that the war had allowed the Conservatives to become gamekeepers again , whereas from 1902 to 1914 there had been genuine concern that they might be permanently banished from the estates of power . |
| 21 | In the days prior to the opening of the GPC meeting on July 13 there had been unprecedented criticism of the Libyan leader , Col. Moamer al-Kadhafi , in the state-controlled media . |
| 22 | Bar-tailed Godwits are very rare inland in Sussex , but since 1966 there have been six reports of birds inland on spring migration between 12 April and 3 May , usually in small parties , but 200 together flew north over Arlington Reservoir on 3 May 1971 . |
| 23 | Since 1961 there have been nine records comprising 49 birds , 39 of them in the winter of 1962/63 . |
| 24 | Nor should we suppose that T. S. Eliot was just firing off his big guns against R. A. Butler 's wartime Education Act of 1944 , for already in the 1930s there had been widespread criticism of ‘ standardisation ’ and ‘ levelling down ’ . |
| 25 | In 1953 there had been 4,068 subject entries from secondary modern schools ; by 1966 there were 22,000 , the floodgates were open , and alternative public examinations were being developed nationally . |
| 26 | Since the 1960s there have been big increases in the amounts of CFCs produced and consumed . |
| 27 | In August 1868 there had been terrible earthquakes in the Andean foothills of Peru and Ecuador , which were estimated to have cost some 25,000 lives ; these events made some stir in London and £11,000 was collected to relieve suffering . |
| 28 | Since 1965 there have been 11 reports involving 16 birds . |
| 29 | In the summer of 1974 there had been several questions regarding the possibility of anonymity in rape cases . |
| 30 | Since 1974 there has been increasing evidence of party politics intervening in local elections , with local-authority-wide campaigns being fought on national policy programmes . |