Example sentences of "have been [vb pp] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | well it she could 've been done last year but we 've not done this year , be gone . |
| 2 | DAVID JENKINS has been made first director of Essex Voluntary Association for the Blind . |
| 3 | The police say he 'd been arrested last month and questioned about threats to Mrs Smith , but he 'd been released on police bail pending further enquiries . |
| 4 | Peter Harris who has cancer had been told last month he only had weeks to live and has been staying in a hospice . |
| 5 | The long-sought ‘ killer application ’ — aka the next Lotus — may have been born last week : Silicon Valley start-up Arbor Software was at the NT Pavilion at Comdex in Chicago showing off its multi-dimensional spreadsheet . |
| 6 | You must bear in mind that you are dealing only with probabilities and — who knows ? — the examiner may have been changed next time . |
| 7 | I mean if you 'd have been reported last week for it you would think Yeah I 'm damn sure that 's right , you know . |
| 8 | The speech might have been delivered last week . |
| 9 | Mr Gummer 's secret mission to the States emerged when David Curry MP , his number two at the Ministry of Agriculture , deputised at a dairy trade luncheon where he indicated that the bill to reform agricultural marketing which should have been introduced last week is likely to enter Parliament before Christmas . |
| 10 | Daleys Dennis is also in action tomorrow , the first eight heats having been completed last night . |
| 11 | Current chairman Nazmu Virani is on remand having been charged last week with conspiracy in connection with the Bank of Credit and Commerce International . |
| 12 | The Italian Classic , due to have been played next month , has been moved from its original slot and is in danger of not been played at all . |
| 13 | Chester College is pressing to be allowed the title of university college , but its hopes appeared to have been dashed last month by education junior minister Tim Boswell . |
| 14 | THE marriage of tennis star John McEnroe and Tatum O'Neal seemed to have been saved last night after a series of tantrums . |
| 15 | Mr Li is believed to have been criticised last year by China 's senior leader , Deng Xiaoping , for his caution on the economy . |
| 16 | I went er , in to check whether these were available last week , just to make sure they were available and , they we , they had been reserved last term but I went to check and , I found so much difficulty finding my way around |
| 17 | But The Washington Post reported on 22 February that Mr Frohnmayer had been warned last October that he might as well start looking for a new job . |
| 18 | The branch secretary , Kathleen McAlorum , a Motherwell district councillor , said that an emergency meeting of the branch executive had been called last Sunday after complaints and threats of resignation from members over the deal for representation on the European committee of the regions . |
| 19 | How many thing had been done last spring that could not be undone ? |
| 20 | However , the majority of MPs expressed their support , pointing out that he had been elected first time to the shadow cabinet , giving him a mandate and the right to the same loyalty which his predecessors , Donald Dewar and Bruce Millan , had received . |
| 21 | He had been elected last month to the Spanish Parliament and was murdered the night before he was to take his seat . |
| 22 | Earlier she had welcomed Philip Tickner , who had been elected last summer to the vacancy left by Suzannah Hardman . |
| 23 | The upshot was that Hauptmann Alfred Horn — if that was indeed his name — had been transferred next morning from the Tower to a miserable country house near Aldershot called Mytchett Place , where he was being held under extremely heavy guard . |
| 24 | Brian had been drunk last night , certainly , but there had been no dog 's abuse out of him . |
| 25 | He had been sacked last week , for the fourth time in a year , after a row with an unpleasant restaurant owner who had a fat pink face that looked about to snort , and chaste little feet on raised heels that he walked on as if they were trotters . |
| 26 | Long ago , the legend said , the security ( or spy-catching ) service and the espionage ( or spy-hiring ) service had been born next door to each other in rooms 5 and 6 of the corridor where Military Intelligence first nested in Whitehall . |
| 27 | As the news of the quarrel between the Old King 's sons spread , those who had been defeated last year took fresh courage , while others like Geoffrey of Lusignan , who had previously been too cautious to join the revolt , now decided that their moment had come . |
| 28 | I dare say you read in the paper she had been attacked last week by some pervert . ’ |
| 29 | At the end of the parade — almost at once — it was announced that ‘ Red Riding Hood ’ and her ‘ wolf ’ had been awarded first prize in the parade , and would the winner , Angela Norcroft , of the 3rd Shortfields Pack kindly come to the prize-giving tent in half an hour 's time for her prize — a bicycle ? |
| 30 | David Alexander , a depute director , told the education committee that the staff at Castle Toward residential education centre had been informed last Tuesday that the committee would yesterday discuss their transfer to mainstream day schools . |