Example sentences of "[noun] [num] [noun] [vb past] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | " shewing the total expenditure in the erection of the Free Grammar School at Stockport amounting to £4,499 15 7d , of which £3,488 6 0d had been paid , leaving a balance of 1,011 9 7d still due to some of the tradesmen employed . " |
| 2 | A cheque for £400 had been received from the Radcliffe Trustees , Mr Park had collected £389 of the £521 from ratepayers , but on 18 December 1896 , it was reported that a further debit of £21 6s 6d had been received from the Locomotive Department , increasing the total to £2,935 10s 7d , and none of the ratepayers who owed the uncollected £132 were property owners , so there was little or no hope of collecting it ; that was written off . |
| 3 | A £1 million campaign had been mounted against pro-field sports candidates . |
| 4 | He knew of petty quarrels between men of different tribes which , inadequately composed , had grown ; in one case thirteen men had been killed . |
| 5 | The Swift Challenger 490 caravan had been parked in the driveway behind another vehicle , but the thieves were undeterred and made their move under the cover of darkness soon after two members of the family left the home . |
| 6 | The presidential ceasefire commission collapsed when its secretary resigned on Aug. 26 after stating that the Aug. 7 ceasefire had been breached some 200 times and that over 70 people had been killed . |
| 7 | In December 1991 Salonga had been ousted as president of the Senate , and had been replaced by Nepatali Gonzales , a member of the LDP . |
| 8 | In December 1991 Keating had been found guilty in a Californian state court on 17 counts of fraud [ see p. 38669 ] . |
| 9 | The government announced that on Sept. 8 Venezuela had been admitted to full membership of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) . |
| 10 | In May 1989 Saibou had been elected head of the country 's new supreme ruling body , a half-military and half-civilian Conseil Superieure d'Orientation National ( CSON — Higher Council for National Orientation ) . |
| 11 | The controversial £5 million layout had been put on hold after the Bellgrove accident , in which two people died . |
| 12 | He stressed that his advice to go ahead with detailed planning for the £5 million junction had been for guidance only and that the full approval of the CIOR would still have to be sought before the junction was commissioned . |
| 13 | By 24 July 4,700 soldiers had been sent into Detroit . |
| 14 | Interestingly , the date of the earliest document signed by Hocazade — mid-Shawwal 877 — more or less coincides with that of a recording that on 23 Shawwal 877/23 March 1473 Efdalzade had been appointed to the Sahn in place of Ali Kuscu who , Uzuncarsili says , had been transferred to the muderrislik of the Ayasofya medrese , one of the posts which Molla Husrev had held in conjunction with the kadilik of Istanbul . |
| 15 | There were furious debates in respect of schemes for Oxford and Bath , but the biggest single reversal of policy concerned London , where for many years three ringways had been in mind . |
| 16 | The World War II equipment had been buried in a field next to RAF Rissington and was discovered when contractors dug it up . |
| 17 | In November 1633 Crowe had been appointed ambassador at Constantinople , though he was unable to take up the appointment for another five years . |
| 18 | Losses during the period 12–15 May had been rather heavy , the total of aircraft destroyed or damaged in the air or on the ground being recorded as : |
| 19 | Wolves 2 , Cambridge 1 CAMBRIDGE United 's bid to gatecrash the Premier League received a distinct setback at Molineux , writes Brian Marshall . |
| 20 | Joe Dwyer , chief executive , said it had been a ‘ mistake ’ when the first £12 million provision had been made in 1991 . |
| 21 | Under the previous rules fourteen hours had been the maximum shift allowed . |
| 22 | On the timing of negotiations on the prospective EC membership of those European Free Trade Association ( EFTA ) states which had submitted applications , the meeting stated that official negotiations should not start until ratification of the Maastricht Treaty had been completed and a decision on the Delors II package had been taken . |
| 23 | Stirling 's old troop from No. 8 Commando had been absorbed by the 2nd Battalion Scots Guards who were in the desert at a place called Bug Bug , from where Johnny Cooper was recruited . |
| 24 | On March 25 Cepaitis had been convicted by the Supreme Court of having " deliberately co-operated with the KGB [ former Soviet state security committee ] " , an accusation first made in November 1991 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | In one urban area 85 children had been murdered by squads set up by business men who regarded the children as vermin who robbed . |
| 27 | The Red Cross said that as of yesterday morning 285 survivors had been accounted for , but other sources put the number of survivors at only about 150. — Reuter |
| 28 | The thrust of this was that if the passenger liability suits went against Pan Am , the airline would seek to recover the cost of the compensation awards from the government on the grounds that the Flight 103 disaster had been due to the misconduct of government agencies . |
| 29 | An FMLN communiqué issued by the FMLN leadership on Nov. 26 claimed that the Nov. 19-20 offensive had been the first action of its newly proclaimed professional " National Army for Democracy " , a merger of its five previous organizations into a conventional rank structure . |
| 30 | 24 the government disclosed that in the Tibesti region of northern Chad 49 people had been killed in various attacks on civilians since mid-August by forces loyal to former President Hissène Habré . |