Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] to [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | The aims of the initiative have been explained to 1,000 officers of all ranks in a series of briefings . |
4 | A WARM welcome to the diocese has been given to two priests . |
5 | Much good publicity has been given to five areas of Britain that badly need it . |
6 | People living in the areas had been exposed to three times the acceptable level of ionising radiation . |
7 | However , the qualifying period has now been shortened to two years . |
8 | A simple hydraulic fracturing technique has been applied to ten boreholes in the Masvingo area of Zimbabwe , in which there many low-yielding tube-wells . |
9 | Reference has already been made to three Conventions under which the requirement of connection to a Contracting State is satisfied where the rules of private international law lead to the application of a Contracting State . |
10 | A TEENAGER who plunged a screwdriver into a frail 85-year-old woman as accomplices ransacked her home , has been sentenced to eight years ’ detention . |
11 | The US Army on Dec. 4 revealed that a US soldier serving in Germany had been sentenced to 34 years in prison after being convicted of spying for Iraq and Jordan during the Gulf War . |
12 | He has been sentenced to two years in prison and given a five-year driving ban . |
13 | Sánchez had in August 1989 been sentenced to two years ' imprisonment for spreading false information " detrimental to international peace " to foreign journalists following the July trial and execution of senior army officers for drug trafficking [ see pp. 36731 ; 37069 ] . |
14 | Amaoui had been sentenced to two years ' imprisonment for defamation of the government in an interview published in El País on March 11 in which he had described members of the government as thieves [ see also p. 38888 ] . |
15 | A barmaid who cudgelled her landlord boyfriend to death with a beer flagon has been sentenced to eighteen months imprisonment ( suspended ) . |
16 | They could have been sentenced to five years in prison . |
17 | A BESSBROOK man has been sentenced to six months in prison after he was overpayed a sum of £5,666.32 by the DHS . |
18 | Mrs Helmsley has been sentenced to four years in jail , and could become eligible for parole in 19 months . |
19 | Two men who smuggled half a million pounds worth of cannabis into Britain in a rubber dinghy have each been sentenced to four years in jail . |
20 | An Oxford student has been sentenced to four months in a young offendors institute for supplying drugs . |
21 | Debray , later a minister in France 's socialist President Mitterrand 's Government , had spent time with Guevara in the jungle , and had been sentenced to thirty years by the Bolivians . |
22 | In February 1992 she was reported to have been sentenced to 5 years ' imprisonment . |
23 | A PUBLICAN who set fire to his car and tried to claim insurance has been sentenced to 180 hours of community service . |
24 | In April 1988 Abbas Ali Hamadei had been sentenced to 13 years imprisonment in Germany for complicity in the kidnapping of two German citizens in Beirut in 1987 [ see p. 36046 ] . |
25 | MAHA Sa'ad-ul-Din Banat , a 35-year-old Syrian national and mother of four who had been sentenced to 200 lashes by the Shari'a Court of Expedient Affairs in Riyadh on 10 March 1992 , received the lashes in four instalments in a one month period between April and May . |
26 | On Oct. 7 the Iranian government released Jon Pattis , 54 , an engineer who had been sentenced to 10 years on spying charges in 1987 . |
27 | Huang had been sentenced to 10 years in prison in 1990 after being found guilty of raising funds to promote Taiwanese independence [ see p. 37917 ] . |
28 | Vic Williams : a 28-year-old soldier in the British Army 's Royal Artillery , he has been sentenced to 14 months ' imprisonment for desertion and ‘ conduct prejudicial to good order and military discipline |
29 | His brother , Gene Gotti , had been sentenced to 50 years ' imprisonment on July 7 , 1989 , after being found guilty of running a multimillion-dollar drugs ring . |
30 | He was jailed for two and a half years , to run consecutive to his present term , which means he has been sentenced to 21 years since 1973 . |