Example sentences of "[num] [was/were] [verb] [verb] [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the whole region , perhaps 800,000 animals had been on the move , and about 20,000 were thought to have been killed by the hunters . |
| 2 | The 17 were reported to have been arrested after the Committee for the Defence of Democratic Freedoms and Human Rights in Syria had issued leaflets in December 1991 criticizing the Dec. 2 referendum which gave overwhelming approval to Assad 's nomination for a fourth term as President [ see p. 38695 ] . |
| 3 | Eight FMI members who had been arrested in June 1990 were among 108 prisoners who on April 13 were reported to have been freed on April 1 . |
| 4 | A further 1,000,000 were believed to have been displaced within Liberia , so that the conflict had led to the uprooting of 60 per cent of Liberia 's population of about 2,500,000 . |
| 5 | Relief officials in Tehran said that 60,000 had been injured , and hundreds of thousands were believed to have been left homeless . |