Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] [prep] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The role of these polymorphisms in a predisposition to alcoholic liver disease has now been examined in two studies . |
| 2 | To be fair to Lewis , he followed instructions more closely than in the past and jabbed his way in before breaking up Dixon , who had not been stopped in 15 fights . |
| 3 | I am sure that you will agree that there should be a debate on the Court of Appeal system now that three major cases have been overturned in two years after substantial campaigns . |
| 4 | Eventually , after she had been joined by two others whose grasp of the English language was as poor as hers , they booked in to two rooms . |
| 5 | At Philadelphia he had been joined by two others in what was obviously a preplanned meeting since the moment dinner was cleared away and a new round of gin and diet tonics ordered they began a miniature board meeting . |
| 6 | By early July the two Meteor F.4s had been joined by two Meteor T.7s ( and a Tiger Moth ! ) and the crews were introduced to the ‘ joys ’ of jet asymmetric flying . |
| 7 | Following the elections to the Basque parliament on Oct. 28 , 1990 , the formation of a new regional government had been delayed for three months due to the breakdown of talks between the two parties which had made up the previous governing coalition — the Basque Nationalist Party ( PNV ) , which had emerged as the largest single party , with 22 seats , and the Basque Socialist Party ( PSE-PSOE ) which had been beaten into second place . |
| 8 | The plutonium-powered scientific space probe Galileo , whose launch had been delayed by 11 days due to a combination of technical faults and attempts by anti-nuclear activists to gain a court injunction to ground it , was launched on Oct. 17 , 1989 , aboard the space shuttle Atlantis . |
| 9 | Announcement of the England team , originally scheduled for 10.00am , had been delayed by two hours so that Gooch could give Daffy the bad news . |
| 10 | 1.21 The plaintiff 's rights in relation to medical examinations by the defendant 's doctor have been redefined in two cases . |
| 11 | A Staff Committee had been mooted as one way of overcoming these difficulties . |
| 12 | That machine has now gone back to being called the Model 54 and will appear as a 45MHz TAB-packaged four-way , as had already been intended at one time . |
| 13 | She had been paralysed for thirty years . |
| 14 | When operating with 112 Squadron FX760 was regularly flown by ‘ A ’ Flight Commander F/L R A Wild DFC , an Australian , who had been posted to 112 Squadron from 3 RAAF Squadron on June 1 , 1944 . |
| 15 | Geraldine , who worked as accounts clerk at Yarmouth Marine Base left to accompany her RAF husband to Cyprus where he has been posted for three years . |
| 16 | Old Mother Jacobsen had once told her how Møn — ‘ The Maid ’ — had been languishing in the frozen Arctic Circle , abandoned by her sun-craving lover , when her cries of anguish had been heard by two giants . |
| 17 | Opened for signature at UNCED in Rio in June 1992 [ see ED 59-60 ] , the biodiversity convention had 160 signatories to date , and had been ratified by six countries ; it thus needed 24 more ratifications in order to come into effect . |
| 18 | The international global warming treaty , signed at last year 's Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro , has so far been ratified by 31 nations , out of the 50 required for entry into force . |
| 19 | As of Oct. 31 , 1989 , it had been ratified by 15 states ( see pp. 35984 ; 36565 for Turkey 's ratification in February 1988 ) . |
| 20 | Favoured with the inside story of the Fawaz Younis kidnapping and other government ‘ exclusives ’ , Emerson 's special relationship with Federal law-enforcement agencies was again on display when he quoted unnamed Washington sources to the effect that allegations of DEA involvement in the Lockerbie disaster had been traced to one Lester Knox Coleman , a ‘ disgruntled former DEA confidential informant who was terminated ’ . |
| 21 | As we have seen , the prestigious ultra-Rightist politician , José Calvo Sotelo , had been assassinated on 13 July . |
| 22 | It 's Thee Headcoats ( Already ) ’ , the latest release from ex-Milkshake BILLY CHILDISH , Mudhoney frontman MARK ARM 's debut solo single , a cover of Bob Dylan 's ‘ Masters of War ’ , which has been limited to 5,000 copies , SISTER DOUBLE HAPPINESS ’ , ‘ Wheels A-Spinning ’ single and DICKLESS ’ ‘ I 'm A Man' , which should reach the shops soon . |
| 23 | It 's Thee Headcoats ( Already ) ’ , the latest release from ex-Milkshake BILLY CHILDISH , Mudhoney frontman MARK ARM 's debut solo single , a cover of Bob Dylan 's ‘ Masters of War ’ , which has been limited to 5,000 copies , SISTER DOUBLE HAPPINESS ’ , ‘ Wheels A-Spinning ’ single and DICKLESS ’ ‘ I 'm A Man' , which should reach the shops soon . |
| 24 | Many members were concerned that the Sunday club searches had become too crowded , and club membership has now been limited to 75 people . |
| 25 | The targets have been limited to three Cath , around three . |
| 26 | Now it 's true that since the second world war all wars have been limited in one sense or another , but then comes the question , if you do , in fact , succeed in defining objectives er and de in defining the means to those objectives , how can you know in fact that you possess genuine capability without putting it to the test , without actually fighting the war and then finding that you can not win it ? |
| 27 | Some of these workers may have just entered the labour market from school , some may have been made redundant from their previous jobs , some may have been sacked for one reason or another and many will have quit their previous jobs in order to create time to search for more satisfactory ones . |
| 28 | And the new boss of Burton , Laurence Cooklin , has been sacked after 15 months with a £773,00 pay-off , with more to come . |
| 29 | The detailed work has been undertaken by two subgroups , also multi agency and with practitioner involvement . |
| 30 | From the clinical database of 75 trials held by Glaxo , who manufacture sumatriptan , 375 asthmatics have been identified who had been treated for 1214 migraine episodes . |