Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] have be " in BNC.
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1 | Indeed , only eight cases have been fully authenticated . |
2 | Section 226 policies have been abolished and are no longer available for purchase . |
3 | By March 1900 , 190,000 copies had been sold in England and there were special Welsh and American editions . |
4 | Creation stories from eight cultures had been distinguished — Egyptian , Norse , African , Oceanic , Greek , Mexican , Indian and the Genesis account — and these could be divided amongst the eight groups very happily , with the addition of timetabled periods of art and music-drama for double groups , in which basic techniques were linked to suitable themes ( for instance , shrine-building , rain-making ceremonies ) . |
5 | Since 1982 , 92 foreigners had been held hostage in Lebanon and at least 10 had died in captivity . |
6 | By the time De Lorean closed , more than 18,000 cars had been made but only 9,000 were sold , mainly to collectors . |
7 | Jan. 8 Suspension of airlifts as fighting worsens , over 460 foreigners having been evacuated by US and Italian aircraft on Jan. 5-6 . |
8 | In April 1983 , teachers reported that in some areas they had not been paid for four months and 828 schools had been closed down . |
9 | At the time of writing , a further 22 titles have been announced for autumn 1991 and spring 1992 . |
10 | This is another attempt to waste parliamentary time — already 280 hours has been wasted in this way in the past two decades . ’ |
11 | At that time nearly 300 prisoners had been released by the mobs . |
12 | In late May 1991 it was reported that there had been a serious outbreak of dengue fever in the Cook Islands , with almost 800 cases having been reported since the beginning of the year . |
13 | It was almost 2215 , and 300 cases had been treated on the first day . |
14 | Meanwhile , since 1985 attempts have been made by the prosecution , against the most strenuous objections from Mr. Osman and the applicant , to take evidence in Malaysia pursuant to letters of request . |
15 | Justice Minister Prince Bola Ajibola confirmed that by Feb. 12 a total of 5,200 prisoners had been released under the amnesty . |
16 | It began among the casuals and spread rapidly to the inmates and staff , so that by mid-February 22 cases had been diagnosed and transferred to the smallpox hospital . |
17 | Furthermore , by UV-cross-linking experiments , a polypeptide of 85,000 daltons has been found to bind to this region , a molecular weight similar to that found in our experiments for the factor binding to oligonucleotide I ( see Fig. 6 ) . |
18 | Gradually the movement spread until by 1978 , it was able to assemble 5,000 people with a petition for which almost 1,300,000 signatures had been collected , but the petition received little attention from the authorities . |
19 | Refugees fleeing Iraq said on Feb. 13 that some 30 Jordanians had been killed in a recent missile attack on a civilian bus travelling on the Iraq-Kuwait border . |
20 | Over the past 10 months of this year , more than 5,600 homes have been burgled in Gloucestershire . |
21 | Since 1986 , 700 pesticides have been reviewed from which 350 active ingredients have been banned . |
22 | They point to how popular their Right to Buy legislation has proved almost 110,000 homes have been sold in the North-East and Cumbria since the laws were introduced in 1980 . |
23 | By Nov. 8 a total of 12 Iranians had been detained while crossing the Israeli-Egyptian border in the western Negev desert . |
24 | A well had been prepared and a brick-kiln built ; about 85,000 bricks had been burned . |
25 | An offer last August of 3% for 12 months had been followed by a lengthy period when voluntary severance had been negotiated with the Bank . |
26 | One of Britain 's most happening hip hop crews in the last 12 months has been Ronin , whose multi-media interests are now more fully embracing clothing . |
27 | Will he now answer the question why in the other 11 countries of the European Community the total rise in unemployment in the past 12 months has been 130,000 , while in this country , for which the right hon. Gentleman is responsible , unemployment has risen by nearly 800,000 ? |
28 | In Yeovil , in the constituency of the leader of the Liberal Democratic party , the number of patients waiting for more than 12 months has been reduced by 45 per cent. , and the total waiting list is down by 10 per cent . |
29 | In Kingston , for example , the list of those waiting more than 12 months has been reduced by 77 per cent . |
30 | The output from GIMMS consists of a list of the options specified together with informative messages to the effect that a data file with 42 zones and 2 variables has been created and saved to the file opened on unit 12 . |