Example sentences of "have been [verb] [prep] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Opportunity has now been presented for someone to take a sober look at her writings which have been collected into one volume recently by Liz Johnson and Cecily O'Neill ( 1983 ) . |
| 2 | Copies of the full text of each local law society and ‘ other ’ response have been collected into two files and will be available for inspection at both Redditch and Chancery Lane , or otherwise on request . |
| 3 | At the Allan Hills about 1200 specimens have been collected from 75 sq . |
| 4 | So far , all the investigations of definitional overlap using the MRDs have been based on one sample of data , which was selected at random from a corpus of business letters . |
| 5 | Collars equipped with radio transmitters , developed by the University of Leiden in the Netherlands , have been fitted to four elephants in different herds , allowing scientists to follow the movements of the herds . |
| 6 | As you will see the Q.T. days for the 1989/90 programme have been arranged with one day at the beginning of each term , as requested by you the teachers , and reflect the requests and feed-back given during the past year . |
| 7 | The aims of the initiative have been explained to 1,000 officers of all ranks in a series of briefings . |
| 8 | Since , for example , administrative and financial activities do not impinge on plant records , these activities have been separated on two LANs — they work faster and more efficiently separately , and faults in one do not disable the other . |
| 9 | A The law allows any couple to seek a divorce on the grounds of the irretrievable breakdown of marriage once they have been separated for two years . |
| 10 | He argues that our views on the nature of the modern state have been polarized between two modes of identification . |
| 11 | All these countries have been affected in one way or another by escalating destruction . |
| 12 | I do hope the members will recognise that the service has not be sitting on its laurels er between inspectors ' reports but that we have been modelling on one quarterly to er correct any omissions with respect to boundary or to make the necessary improvements in the service erm as , as recommended by the inspect and supported by members . |
| 13 | ALL 32 homes on a new housing development in Middlesbrough have been reserved within four months of going on sale . |
| 14 | He says I have been flying for four years . |
| 15 | I have been flying for twenty years and doing aerobatics for ten years , having been taught to fly by my celebrated husband Tim , of Nealey Air Shows , in Chicago . |
| 16 | So far cable crossovers have been crossed in one direction only . |
| 17 | Maximum fines for the wastage or pollution of water supplies have been raised from 250 francs to 6,000 francs , and repeat offenders may be fined up to 1 million francs . |
| 18 | The village of Stoke Row in south Oxfordshire might seem a world away from India , but the two have been connected for 130 years . |
| 19 | Causal path diagrams have been extended to three variables to show how the factors are hypothesized to interrelate ; these diagrams are useful because they force explicit decisions to be made about the causal order of the variables , and lessen the risk that the analyst will control for the wrong variables . |
| 20 | ITV has been thrown into disarray because the current franchises have been extended for three years while the Government introduces a new free market framework . |
| 21 | ‘ An accumulation of socioeconomic problems that have been developing for 25 years are closing in on blacks like a vice , ’ says veteran African-American author and social theorist Harold Cruse . |
| 22 | Invitations have been sent to 3,000 businesses asking them to the conference which is backed by the Health and Safety Executive and County Durham Training and Enterprise Council . |
| 23 | Letters have been sent to 1,000 psychologists , asking them to reply anonymously to questions about their relationships with patients . |
| 24 | Aesthetically positioned in small clusters , the lodges have been built with one aim in mind . |
| 25 | Yesterday 's announcement of 420 job losses came after a meeting between the receivers and union representatives at the yard , where warships have been built for 130 years . |
| 26 | The two areas have been twinned for 35 years . |
| 27 | Two hundred and eight golf professionals — some reigning champions , others young rookies — have been competing for 50 places on next season 's full European Tour . |
| 28 | Two hundred and eight golf professionals — some reigning champions , others young rookies — have been competing for 50 places on next season 's full European Tour . |
| 29 | At its Botany site , for example , mercury emissions have been cut from 60 parts per billion to around 25 parts per billion [ equivalent to 25 seconds in 32 years ] . |
| 30 | May I remind him that inflation has come down from 10.9 to 3.7 per cent. , that interest rates have been cut by 4.5 percentage points and that we have the lowest level of inflation for 25 years — below that of west Germany . |