Example sentences of "been [verb] [prep] [num] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had been painted in 1876 and showed an older and more ethereal poet , his head rising , as is common with Watts 's portraits , from a vague dark column of a body into a spiritual light . |
| 2 | When she finally reached the scribbling engine , she felt as if she had been broken in two and glued back together again all wrong . |
| 3 | Since 1945 the government has in effect alternated between the Labour and Conservative parties , the present Conservative administration headed by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher having been formed in 1979 and re-elected in 1983 and 1987 [ see pp. 29645 ; 32262 ; 35269 ] . |
| 4 | The General Body of Protestant Dissenting Ministers of the Three Denominations had been formed in 1727 and included ministers from Baptist , Congregational and Presbyterian chapels in London . |
| 5 | Russia had been mauled in 1915 and forced into general retreat , but she had not been destroyed . |
| 6 | It had been built in 1876 and consisted of a whole succession of low-roofed , dormer-windowed , gabled buildings . |
| 7 | It had been made in 1942 but had not been shown until the Nazis had been banished from the country . |
| 8 | The hotel business was a virtual monopoly for the Reid family in Funchal at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century , the only real rival being Jones ' Private Family Hotel ( Jones ' Bella Vista Hotel ) which had been opened in 1880 and had a large garden ; it is now the Seminary which overlooks the new Post Office . |
| 9 | CD is poking fun , under this name , at the Society of Antiquaries , which had been reconstituted in 1717 and received its Royal Charter in 1751 . |
| 10 | The ULF had been founded in 1920 but remained a small organization affiliated to the Labour Party in 1934 on a membership of only three hundred . |
| 11 | Birth dates are not given on marriage certificates , only ages , and his mother 's was there as twenty-five , which meant she must have been born in 1926 and have been twenty-seven when he was born . |
| 12 | A target of recycling 50 per cent of recyclable household waste has been set for 2000 and recycling facilities will be a requirement at new shopping developments . |
| 13 | The scheme has been running since 1986 and won a similar CIMA award in 1988 . |
| 14 | The scheme has been running since 1975 and has included the designs of A R Penck , Matazo Kayama and the pop artist , Andy Warhol . |
| 15 | One of the leaders of the Beijing Spring movement in 1978-79 which had created a " Democracy Wall " in the capital , Wei had been arrested in 1979 and sentenced to 15 years in prison [ see pp. 30495-96 ] . |
| 16 | The Crick Committee , which had been appointed in 1961 and reported on A Higher Award in Business Studies in 1964 , had originally been looking for an equivalent of the DipTech , but had waited for the Robbins Report before issuing its recommendations . |
| 17 | It has been reproduced in millions and has served as the model for metro maps all over the world . |
| 18 | Indeed , an attempt at reform had been tried in 1977 and failed . |
| 19 | It may have been ignored since 1981 and left to make do with just two small engines ( and thus no way of cashing in on the ever-increasing popularity of the hot supermini in Britain ) but all that 's changed now . |
| 20 | The remains of Cardinal Jozsef Mindszenty , the Roman Catholic Primate who had been imprisoned in 1949-56 and exiled in 1971 , were returned to Hungary from Mariazell in Austria and reinterred on May 4 at Esztergom , 16 years after his death . |
| 21 | A Lake Chad Basin commission with representatives of Chad , Cameroon , Nigeria and Niger ( which all bordered on the lake ) had been established in 1964 but had made little progress . |