Example sentences of "that have been [vb pp] [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was also through Bede that the AD system of reckoning the years from the Incarnation of Christ , that had been devised two centuries before by Dionysius Exiguus , was introduced into England . |
| 2 | At three o'clock in the morning of Tuesday 20 May , Frank Foley and Edward Carrington watched a Dornier 217 taxi to a halt between the lines of flares that had been lit ten minutes previously at RAF Lincoln . |
| 3 | He favoured less one that had been taken ten years before in which his bowler hat and suit are typical of a provincial businessman . |
| 4 | A favourite a couple of years ago was a letter issued from an American bank that had been issued three years previously . ’ |
| 5 | There 's a stand-pipe that 's been erected two streets over that way , ’ she said , pointing . |