Example sentences of "have been [vb pp] [art] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | Airbus has been given a three year guarantee on that contract . |
| 2 | Since the event began in 1973 it has been held every fourth year and split into 5 legs of different size and difficulty . |
| 3 | Ehm is a it is n't actually a a erm a new school it 's Birchwood High School it used to be Margaret Dane which has been established a few years but Birchwood just been started for a year erm it has is some information but obviously there have n't been any feedback from the school so I starts there . |
| 4 | JON SMITH , head of First Artist Corporation , has been offered a five year contract by the FA to help organise the new England players ’ pool . |
| 5 | It 'd been taken a few years earlier at a family Christmas party when we were playing Musical Chairs . |
| 6 | Over ninety states have accepted the obligation not to acquire nuclear arms under the 1968 Non-Proliferation Treaty ; although this treaty has not prevented the detonation of a nuclear device by India and the covert acquisition of nuclear capacity also by Israel and South Africa , the total list of nuclear powers is relatively small , and perhaps less than may have been predicted a few years ago . |
| 7 | Few apart from servants and those running retailing shops would have expected to have been employed the whole year through . |
| 8 | I had been asked the previous year by the Intendant , von Benda , in an arrangement they had for young conductors , but there was no rehearsal , so I declined . |
| 9 | On the other hand , two large specimens of Pinus halepensis , the Aleppo pine , had escaped because , he imagined , they had been transplanted the previous year making no shoots that summer , thus faring better than other plants with tender new growth . |
| 10 | Black , because it had been burned a thousand years ago ; it still showed the shape of the face impressed upon it . |
| 11 | She was born when they had been married a few years . |
| 12 | The extent to which the courts could become involved in the politics of such disputes had been shown a few years earlier when Lord Cameron presided over an enquiry into a dispute on London building sites . |
| 13 | He was knighted in 1965 for his work on the Forth road bridge , which had been opened the previous year . |
| 14 | On the first occasion I had been down to visit an isolated village , on the south face of Kala Agar ridge , that had been abandoned the previous year owing to the depredations of the man-eater , and on the way back had taken a cattle track that went over the ridge and down the far side to the forest road , when , approaching a pile of rocks , I suddenly felt there was danger ahead . |
| 15 | The building of the Henry Ford factory on the Marina had been started a few years before ; and Denis , whose regular walks to Blackrock — solitary now that his father was no longer there to accompany him took him past the site , had watched its growth from the first brick . |
| 16 | Well I think they 're helping us erm possibly if this system had been started a few years ago , then possibly flats complex , would n't have got the bad reputation it has today . |
| 17 | But in general , discounting was this year considered of less significance than the proliferation of bargain bookshops , whose advent had been heralded the previous year but whose growth in numbers has evidently continued since . |
| 18 | Science had made enormous progress since Jonson 's day ; the Royal Society had been founded a few years before ; a virtuoso was not the same thing as an alchemist . |
| 19 | By 1898 the number of books had fallen to about 180 , 44 of which had been added the previous year . |
| 20 | The idea of light coming only in packets , called quanta , had been introduced a few years earlier by the German physicist Max Planck . |
| 21 | no at the moment all my friends have , have been married a few years erm next time you come and er |