Example sentences of "[num] [verb] [be] [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A woman in her thirties has been found dead at her home after a man walked into a police station and said he wanted to talk to detectives . |
| 2 | Since the amendment is a limited one , and the need for action is urgent , the period of consultation on FRED 2 has been kept short . |
| 3 | Of these , 12 have been found dead and fewer than 10 territorial pairs have been established . |
| 4 | Witnesses , however , claimed that the six had been shot dead by security forces . |
| 5 | Of the 49 released , six have been found dead . |
| 6 | Of the 48 Cabinet members , 11 had been investigated for corruption by a military-appointed Asset Verification Committee and three had been found guilty . |
| 7 | Nizan 's rehabilitation in 1960 had been made possible by a gradual evolution in the political and ideological climate in France , itself reflected in Sartre 's own intellectual itinerary . |
| 8 | 20001 had been grounded due to stress cracks and skin detachment in flight which resulted in a Mach 2.5 speed limit put on the airframe . |
| 9 | The year 1992 has been designated National Trust Landscape Year and one of the earliest surviving English landscape gardens in Claremont , near Esher , which has new opening times this year . |
| 10 | The aid agency Care , the main distribution agency for all UN relief operations in the north , was reported on Nov. 18 to have been granted official permission to distribute food in southern and central parts of the country . |
| 11 | During the interval , eighty-eight had been made redundant , downgraded or fired from work . |
| 12 | Of these 95 had been declared admissible and , if no negotiated settlement could be reached by the Commission , would go on to the European Court of Human Rights , which had issued 25 judgments in 1989 . |
| 13 | Some twenty two thousand have been made homeless , and they still face constant danger . |
| 14 | The reagents in Table 4 have been found satisfactory in our laboratory . |
| 15 | Another 4,000 have been found temporary shelter with families . |
| 16 | A father of five has been shot dead in Ulster . |
| 17 | Five American nuns were reported on Nov. 1 to have been shot dead after disappearing between Oct. 20 and 22 in areas of Monrovia then controlled by Taylor 's forces . |
| 18 | As time passed , and the cost of making new recordings has increased , so that prophesy of about 1953 has been proved right . |
| 19 | Team Spirit 92 had been cancelled due to the improving relations between the two Korean states , but in recent months relations had deteriorated as a result of the North 's refusal to accept unscheduled inspection of its nuclear facilities , and the alleged discovery within South Korea of a huge Northern spy network [ see p. 39141 ] . |
| 20 | While 66 per cent of fir trees in 27 plots established in 1980 had been considered healthy , by 1982 just 1 per cent remained so . |
| 21 | The limit imposed by the state of Missouri on malpractice lawsuit awards had been challenged on behalf of a 13-year-old girl , Nicole Adams , who at the age of eight had been left blind and brain-damaged by an anaesthesia error during a skin graft operation . |
| 22 | Some £205 million has been made available to Edinburgh for repairs and improvement grants since 1979 . |
| 23 | Since the scheme was introduced , £957 million has been made available through it in Scotland to help bring many empty houses back into use and assist in reducing waiting lists . |
| 24 | I can also tell him that urban aid of £9.7 million has been made available over the years for homelessness projects in Scotland . |
| 25 | Cumbria council said more than £7 million had been spent improving safety in five years . |
| 26 | and erm eight hundred have been turned downed already , they 've did n't get an interview so the chap said well your to get an interview it 's good . |
| 27 | Of these 500 have been coloured red and the remainder blue . |
| 28 | Of these 500 have been coloured red and the remainder blue . |
| 29 | In colorectal carcinomas and in adenomatous polyps increased concentrations of plasminogen activator inhibitor type-1 and type-2 have been demonstrated concurrent with higher urokinase type plasminogen activator concentrations and inactivation of tissue type plasminogen activator . |
| 30 | A proposal put forward at the end of January 1990 by Mario Schimberni , who in November 1988 had been appointed temporary special commissioner of the state railway system ( Ferrovie dello Stato — FS ) [ see pp. 37095-96 ] , met fierce opposition from both unions and politicians . |