Example sentences of "[been] [noun] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had been Fei Yen 's idea to have a midnight picnic and Tsu Ma had been delighted when the two girls had come to them with blankets and a basket , interrupting their talk . |
| 2 | It was estimated that the average sum raised per branch member to finance the work of the Eastern District and its branches as a whole for the year had been £1 3s. 4d . |
| 3 | There have been presentation graphics programs around for several years now in the PC marketplace ; programs such as Harvard Graphics , Lotus Freelance , Daverelle , Genigraphics and 35mm Express , all merrily turning out graphs , charts and text for use as presentation aids . |
| 4 | The sixty-seven ruins on the Plain of Barsoom commonly called ‘ temples ’ may have been just that ; or equally well may have been army barracks , isolated quarters for the mentally disturbed or victims of plague , or holiday camps for Martian urbanites . |
| 5 | British Nuclear Fuels has been find £7,500 plus costs after admitting the unauthorized disposal of radioactive waste . |
| 6 | ‘ A lot of our patients have been country people and can remember having collies on their farms . |
| 7 | They had been country people and I was taken off to visit relatives and friends in Shepley and Harewood , sucking mintoes as a treat . |
| 8 | Perhaps of more significance was their estimate of the cost of the rise in unemployment from 1979 to 1985 : they estimated that if the figure had remained at the 1979 level , the cost to the Exchequer in 1984–85 would only have been £7.5 bn . |