Example sentences of "[verb] [num] [noun] [vb past] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the survey was closed 141 questionnaires had been returned to IMS ( 82 per cent ) . |
| 2 | In a coded telephone warning on Tuesday , Scotland Yard were told four bombs had been planted in the area and given just 30 minutes to find them . |
| 3 | But US reporters at the military hospitals in Texas to which the US casualties are being flown said at midday yesterday they had counted 190 US wounded being flown in , with more planes on the way . |
| 4 | The West German newspaper Bild Zeitung cited East Berlin sources as saying 3,000 people had been imprisoned for attempted ‘ flight from the Republic ’ . |
| 5 | Losing 14–12 Province had been awarded a free-kick inside Northern 's '22 . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | Mr. R. A. McNeile said that the availability of water in the town to supply 10,000 people had been one of the reasons for attracting the company . |
| 8 | ‘ We think one soldier had been playing with the weapon when it went off . |
| 9 | The US Consul General , Max Robinson , said 30,000 forms had been distributed and a further 270,000 would be available within a week . |
| 10 | Frances Donaghy of the RCN in Northern Ireland said 2,000 beds had been removed during the past four years yet hospitals were still handling the same volume of patients . |
| 11 | Police said 21 bodies had been recovered as by last night and the final toll would not be clear until today . |
| 12 | Carsten Ree , the Danish publisher sponsoring the salvage project , said 16 torpedoes had been found after four days work inside the sub . |
| 13 | Police said one man had been charged with breach of the peace and a report was being sent to the procurator fiscal . |
| 14 | The hotel 's owner said nine Irishmen had been staying at the hotel since June , all of them apparently working as builders . |
| 15 | The Pentagon said 250 prisoners had been taken and the forces of two other organised battalions had been scattered . |
| 16 | The army said 60 sheep had been stolen from the settlement the previous night . |
| 17 | Mr Paul Knipe , British Rail 's Vegetation Consultant , said 60 places had been designated in the South-East as blackspots requiring many trees to be felled for line safety . |
| 18 | But Detective Chief Inspector Joe Nixon , leading the police investigation , denied 15 soldiers had been involved in the attack . |
| 19 | Prof Catford said two studies had been undertaken of family doctors ' attitudes to health promotion and their own health . |
| 20 | Professor Geoffrey Codd , a microbiologist from Dundee University and expert on blue-green algae said two cadets had been seriously ill and were detained in hospital for a week . |
| 21 | Darlington police said two people had been arrested in connection with the attack and investigations were continuing . |
| 22 | Last night police said two men had been charged with causing grievous bodily harm and one had also been charged with possessing a firearm with intent to endanger life . |
| 23 | A NURSE yesterday told how a colleague accused of murdering four children had been quick to summon help for a sick baby . |
| 24 | By the end of March , 1984 , 541 Sites of Special Scientific Interest ( SSSI ) , representing a cross-section of important wildlife habitats and covering 148,754 hectares had been notified by the NCC . |
| 25 | Unless they desperately need to believe , like the self-styled ‘ cerealogists ’ who could not accept two jokers had been manufacturing corn circles . |