Example sentences of "[noun] [n mass] [vb past] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over 260 people had enjoyed the evening and through the generosity of those who contributed prizes or money towards their purchase £137 had been made on the raffle . |
| 2 | After more 10,000 allied air sorties , however , he was able to confirm that only 41 enemy aircraft had been destroyed and that Saddam Hussein and his generals retained effective command and control over their forces . |
| 3 | Car sales had been the one area of consumer spending undented by the Chancellor 's high interest rates strategy . |
| 4 | Such events led greens to suspect that the Forest Service and timber industry people had been in cahoots , trying to determine not only how best to make the plan public , but also how best to ensure its demise . |
| 5 | For months and months people had been telling nomes what to do . |
| 6 | Apparently on 5 July $600,000 had been paid into the account of Hildenbrand and her associate Lanzone and they had issued a receipt to the museum 's director . |
| 7 | X-ray fibre diffraction data had been obtained for both the A and B forms of DNA by Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins at King 's College , London , but they lacked the phase data necessary to solve the structure . |
| 8 | At the trial of the issue before Cave J. it was proved that the whole sum of £2,090 19S. had been paid by instalments , but the respondent claimed interest . |
| 9 | At one time the Kaszubians and their Pomeranian kin had been part of a powerful independent principality : their territory had stretched from the gulf of Danzig westwards to Słupsk ( Stolp ) and the river Słupia ( Stolpe ) , where the small town of Dębnica Kaszubska ( literally : Kaszubian Oaks ) still survives . |
| 10 | Coun John Williams , Labour leader of the council , said every member of town hall staff had been trained in the council 's quality awareness programme . |
| 11 | Or perhaps London had betrayed me. lt had been done before , it would be done again . |
| 12 | It would wrong , however , to assume that the Rover 820 Si 16v had been assembled by a team of accountants . |
| 13 | The move comes on top of NCR UK 's December announcement that 8% , or 150 to 160 sales and marketing staff had been told that their jobs were in jeopardy . |
| 14 | New data indicated that altogether 404,000 sq km had been deforested . |
| 15 | Previously , this lecture series had been on the history of rhetoric from classical times , but I decided to redesign the course , dealing with literary language ( especially poetry ) from a modern linguistic point of view . |
| 16 | All I wanted to do was write , and correct and edit and shuffle and store , all the things people said were so much easier on screen than on bits of bleached and pulped wood . |
| 17 | Even the industrial costs of over-ambitious Docklands works had been defrayed through a print sharing arrangement with the Express . |
| 18 | Fei Yen had been looking up from beneath her lashes , her pose the very image of demure , obedient womanhood . |
| 19 | For months Weatherbury people had been discussing the party that Mr Boldwood was going to give just before Christmas , and now the day had finally arrived . |
| 20 | Control Data had been mulling the use of other RISCs , notably the Hewlett-Packard Co PA chip , but these machinations were , as the company admitted ( UX No 384 ) , a bluff to bring Silicon Graphics and NEC to the table . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , once the questionnaire data had been collected and compared the Deputy Head ( Curriculum ) was able to present a summary report which included sections on : the relative contribution of subject areas to the eight areas of experience ; the nature and degree of relevance assigned to subject teaching ; a selective summary of the skills taught by various faculties ; an account of the way departments justified their teaching methods ; an analysis of subject overlap ; a description of evaluation procedures ; and a department by department judgement of outcomes . |
| 22 | Similar claims by the reinstated officers against other news media had been settled on payment of agreed damages amounting to £40,000 . |
| 23 | When she had bought some food in the local grocer 's that morning people had been excited . |
| 24 | While the nursing staff had been keenly following the implementation of the ENP , some of them did not seem to be familiar with my parameters of practice — I sometimes missed patients that I could have treated because they were not being filtered through to me . |
| 25 | more than seemed to be indicated in the figures that we 've got , because Buck 's figures for the extent of supplementary income are I know they 're significant but they 're not enough to the kinds of levels people had been living at . |
| 26 | Although a skeleton staff had been left behind to keep the houses dusted and secure and though there were more of us in the compound than the average Western home would see in a month , there was an air of loneliness , an awful stillness as though the heart had been removed from the body . |
| 27 | Reports that the country 's US-supplied fleet of F-16 fighter aircraft had been grounded due to a critical lack of spare parts were denied on Jan. 23 by the Minister for Defence Production , Mir Hazar Khan Bijrani . |
| 28 | A military agreement with France involving the sale of fighter aircraft had been officially announced in January [ see p. 38726 ; 38812 ] , and a further bilateral defence pact had been reported in June [ see p. 38968 ] . |
| 29 | It was the day Li Yuan had been born . |
| 30 | The main reason people gave was blunt : to get the money to pay taxes . |