Example sentences of "[noun sg] [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 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It would wrong , however , to assume that the Rover 820 Si 16v had been assembled by a team of accountants . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Similar claims by the reinstated officers against other news media had been settled on payment of agreed damages amounting to £40,000 . |
| 14 | When she had bought some food in the local grocer 's that morning people had been excited . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 ] . |
| 19 | The main reason people gave was blunt : to get the money to pay taxes . |
| 20 | The day before , she told me , the hospital staff had been dismayed to see a young girl about to deliver , shackled in leg-irons and handcuffs , escorted to the maternity ward by armed guards . |
| 21 | Advertising sales had been combined with those of Grampian , Scottish , West country and S4C . |
| 22 | The glass works had been converted into a pottery , just like some of the other south Yorkshire sites during the course of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries . |
| 23 | Perhaps the most significant comic book series produced was the Classic Illustrated , published between 1941 and 1971 . |
| 24 | Educational qualifications for entry into the officer corps had been lower than for other comparable elements of the administration . |
| 25 | He said that at the original trial , the magazine had no idea £25,000 had been paid to Mrs Sutcliffe by Mail on Sunday reporter Barbara Jones - and nor had the jury . |
| 26 | The King claimed that all the funds acquired through the passport sales had been accounted for . |
| 27 | The hotel staff had been firmly relegated to a very small part of their own domain for the preparation of luncheon and would thereafter be merely onlookers , apart from serving the food to the hoi polloi of the guests this evening , while Auguste and his pupils served the Prince of Wales 's table . |
| 28 | The way people looked was the most shocking thing . |
| 29 | On July 17 the Turkish consul , Deniz Bolukbasi , and two other members of the consulate staff had been injured when a car bomb exploded near the Turkish consulate in Athens . |
| 30 | Fellow stores groups also lost ground as dealers decided the euphoria about the New Year sales had been overdone . |