Example sentences of "[n mass] had be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We wish to point out Darlington 's Tory candidate Michael Fallon said £22.4m had been ploughed into housing association grants for the town since 1979 and not housing authority grants as was stated . |
| 2 | The bonds will return only around 7% a year , but $21m-worth had been sold by January 23rd . |
| 3 | Despite frantic last-minute appeals , only £1,634,000 had been raised by the time the offer stopped — still well short of the new lower target of £2 million . |
| 4 | At the trial of the issue before Cave J. it was proved that the whole sum of £2,090 19S. had been paid by instalments , but the respondent claimed interest . |
| 5 | In later letters to Hanns , John mentioned that ‘ we have quite a lot of black tarlatan , so if you could use it in your designs , do so ’ , as about £1 had been allowed for each costume and the tarlatan was free . |
| 6 | I was told that I would have to take a strange aircraft that night , I learnt that my aircraft had been damaged by flak — and Italian flak to boot — and one of my lads was in hiding as he claimed I had threatened him with dire punishment if he damaged my aircraft . |
| 7 | There is no suggestion that , though all three aircraft had been hit by flak over Caen on the outward journey , Leslie 's had come down then . |
| 8 | Once of the aircraft had been fitted with some new kit and a whip aerial had been mounted on one of its bomb doors . |
| 9 | The aircraft had been fitted with aerodynamic modifications that were not approved by the CAA . |
| 10 | The aircraft had been leased to a Nigerian company Holdtrade on a short-term basis by Montreal-based Nationair . |
| 11 | Work on this aircraft had been prompted by the success earlier of an experimental lightweight hull used in a converted Supermarine Southampton known as the A.14 . |
| 12 | Prosecuting counsel Anne Toynbee told magistrates at Crawley , west Sussex , that the aircraft had been parked at a stand at Gatwick on Wednesday while engineers worked on an electronic fault . |
| 13 | Boeing had done their best to keep tabs on which aircraft had been sold to whom but some were no longer in service or had been damaged and discarded while one or two had even lost their identity , so that it was difficult to trace where they were and under whose jurisdiction they fell . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Do women have power in some areas and men in others ? — and to question the ways in which this data had been handled in existing sociological accounts . |
| 16 | These data were compared in the hypertensive and normotensive groups , as nearly as possible to the same ages at which these data had been recorded for hypertensive cases . |
| 17 | I refer to your invoice dated 16/4/91 informing me that £10.58 had been debited from the above account for ‘ Audit Certificate Fee ’ . |
| 18 | It would wrong , however , to assume that the Rover 820 Si 16v had been assembled by a team of accountants . |
| 19 | Within a few hours , more than £10,000 had been raised by YOU — our generous readers . |
| 20 | Over £pound1,100 had been paid to strikers in Denmark , £pound 1,000 towards a dispute in Australia [ it cost £pound16 14s 6d to remit that amount ! ] and a further £pound1,000 to dock porters , coal trimmers and gas stokers . |
| 21 | The parachute team from 11 Bn had been tasked to the Sandwich area that morning . |
| 22 | At an informal level , they had not wholly lacked it before ; £3000 had been sent to them in August 1559 , and in January the English Admiral Winter had appeared in the forth , officially searching for pirates but actually cutting the French troops ' line of communication between their strongholds in Fife and Leith . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Jackie Stewart also announced that the record sum of £200,000 had been raised by this year 's Jackie Stewart Celebrity Challenge . |
| 25 | The Appeal Fund had now reached £65,000 , of which £23,000 had been spent on the Gymnasium ; it was decided to continue the Appeal for a Hall costing in the region of £90,000 . |
| 26 | The big fish had been making for deep water all afternoon and Trent had n't seen a bird for the past hour . |
| 27 | Of the shortfall , departments had assessed 80m as being unobtainable , and 65m had been rejected for political and other reasons ( Making Things Happen , 1985 ) . |
| 28 | Sales of general building materials by the builders merchant to third parties amounted to £26,000 of which £24,000 had been received in cash by 31 December 1990 and the remainder was received in January 1991 . |
| 29 | The FT-SE 100 took a fresh battering and at the close £4bn had been wiped off stock values . |
| 30 | 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 . |