Example sentences of "[n mass] had been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The aircraft had been resident with an Air Training Corps unit until the late 1940s when it was disposed of by burying it ! |
| 2 | For so long the London folk had been patient and kindly helping one another , and always so cheerful . |
| 3 | Remissions for crime , given as part of the justice of the feud when the victims of the crime or their kin had been satisfied , were not in fact a sign of weakness on the part of the crown , forced to acquiesce with an aristocracy resistant to justice , as the author of ‘ L'Etat et puissance ’ had suggested ; they were the crown 's part in a highly effective means of controlling crime , dispute and disorder . |
| 4 | The swine had been amused , she was sure of it ! |
| 5 | He said the media had been impulsive in reporting the incident and that Mansell and Ferrari had appealed to two different bodies — the national motorsports tribunal in Portugal and FIA 's international tribunal . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Neville had been to see Private Eye , and its staff had been courteous , but faintly aloof . |
| 8 | He added that Sergia 's people had been grateful , though they 'd ushered Chertro and his prisoner off-planet as soon as they could . |
| 9 | A pilot scheme involving 2,000 people had been successful and £500,000 for a further survey of 20,000 people had been promised by the Health Education Authority and the Economic and Social Research Council ( ESRC ) . |
| 10 | The other night , for example , after a meeting in Holyhead , someone asked how many people had been present . |
| 11 | The people had been friendly , and she had known her way around . |
| 12 | People had been shocked , by numbers as well as by gratuitous death itself , as people will be , and Mrs Maguire 's sister and a friend had founded the Peace People , whose brave beginning and sad end will not be chronicled here . |
| 13 | People had been awe-struck by the pictures sent back to earth by Voyager 2 of arid lifeless planets and moons . |
| 14 | Government sources subsequently acknowledged that up to 3,000 people had been involved in the demonstrations , and that 200 had been injured ; unofficial sources suggested that as many as 280 students had lost their lives , together with twenty-nine policemen and soldiers . |
| 15 | Although some progress had been made by January 1990 in dissolving the Ministry for State Security ( the " Stasi " ) [ see pp. 37107-08 ; 37170 ] , the extent to which prominent people had been involved with the Stasi remained a contentious issue [ ibid . ] . |
| 16 | By the end of 1992 more than 300 people had been involved in ITED , which as applications across the spectrum of working environments , from finance to manufacturing . |
| 17 | A lot of these deaths might have been prevented if people had been able to get out in time . |
| 18 | The results of the elections , in which 275,500 people had been eligible to vote , were announced on May 31 . |
| 19 | Once a people had been colonialist , the working class would continue to be colonialist even after they had carried out a revolution . |
| 20 | The materialism was crass , everyone 's expectations had been aroused , and few people had been satisfied . |
| 21 | When she had bought some food in the local grocer 's that morning people had been excited . |
| 22 | Even if Crabb 's next-of-kin had been dissatisfied with the official explanation and had made such a fuss that the government was forced to hold some sort of inquiry the truth would still not have been told . |
| 23 | New data indicated that altogether 404,000 sq km had been deforested . |
| 24 | Ukrainians tended to be less troublesome than Poles because most of their gentry had been Polonized or Russified in the two centuries prior to 1800 . |