Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [prep] three " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The targets have been limited to three Cath , around three . |
| 4 | Herringbroom Studio has been developed by three working painters — Piers Ottey , Catherine Somerville and Christopher Baker . |
| 5 | However , when it arrived in Suffolk it had been broken into three pieces , so the star quickly agreed to send a replacement . |
| 6 | Our first call , Burgoynes Garage , which has been broken into three times . |
| 7 | Subsequently it was suggested ( Hare , 1973 ) that this trend in climatology had been emphasized by three other contributions identified as the micrometeorological method whereby a branch of experimental physics has used experimental techniques to provide physical insights into the nature of the earth 's surface and planetary boundary layers ; the microclimatological method where the techniques of micrometeorological measurement and boundary layer theory together with the related parts of soil physics and plant physiology are applied to exchange and transformation processes over natural surfaces , leading to study of energy transformation at the land surface , water movement upwards and downwards through the soil , and to how carbon dioxide is assimilated during photosynthesis and released during respiration ; and the hydrological method whereby energy exchange during the hydrological cycle was quantified . |
| 8 | High-density seating with many rows fixed in face-to-back mode , together with much more standing room , enabled trains which had previously been formed of three old DMU vehicles to be scheduled for two Sprinter vehicles . |
| 9 | People living in the areas had been exposed to three times the acceptable level of ionising radiation . |
| 10 | In the few hours since she had brought the house down she had been interviewed by three tabloids , Sky Television and by Tony Howard for ‘ Newsnight ’ . |
| 11 | The move brings together the board 's 61 admin staff , who have been scattered in three different premises — Kirk headquarters at 121 George Street , Wallace House in Granton and the Tom Allan Centre in Glasgow . |
| 12 | As mentioned elsewhere , child benefit has been frozen for three consecutive years . |
| 13 | These are not , of course , known , but the pay-offs have been forecast for three levels , high , medium and low . |
| 14 | These are not , of course , known , but the pay-offs have been forecast for three levels , high , medium and low . |
| 15 | Consultation date has been picked for three weeks on Tuesday . |
| 16 | Leith 's catering company has been hired to look after the Press at the stadium , which has been booked for three weeks . |
| 17 | Well it 's been booked for three or four weeks has n't it ? |
| 18 | Traditionally the criminal work in the busy city magistrates ' courts had been dominated by three firms . |
| 19 | America , like Spain itself , had been ruined by three centuries of theological intolerance and political despotism ; if a unitary liberal constitution was the remedy in Spain , it must also be the remedy in America . |
| 20 | The large Ionic Temple of Artemis at Sardis seems to have been built in three phases . |
| 21 | Formerly , a centre offering these three types of SCOTVEC provision within one cognate area would have been visited by three different external verifiers . |
| 22 | Fullback Marty Roebuck continues to be in the wars and suffered a broken jaw in a pre-season club trial , while Test hooker Phil Kearns has been sidelined for three weeks with knee trouble . |
| 23 | She and Caan had been separated for three years . |
| 24 | The woman did not return to complete the divorce , although she had been separated for three years . |
| 25 | They found that the mammals had been separated into three groups . |
| 26 | The German defences north of South Vaagsö had been bombed by three Blenheims an hour or so earlier , no doubt adding to the confusion at the German 181 Division 's headquarters for they had no clear picture of events and a patrol sent down from the northern defences lost two men at the road-block . |
| 27 | The point has therefore now been made with three examples that it is usually carbonate facies that are so remarkably persistent in a lateral sense . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | If no firm offer has been made within three months the farmer is free to go ahead with his original plans . |
| 30 | The epitopes for several monoclonal antibodies raised against human CD2 have been mapped to three discrete regions . |