Example sentences of "[been] [n mass] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the 1987 election , the parliamentary party had only eleven MPs who had served in the Guards , and a further eight who had been cavalry officers . |
| 2 | ‘ Today would have been sheep day in the old days , ’ the driver explained , as he hurried in to take over from his wife at the bar . |
| 3 | He called it the Common Red Rose and described it as having ‘ flowers not very double , open wide ’ , indicating that this must have been Rosa gallica officinalis or the Apothecary 's Rose . |
| 4 | There is a lot of work ahead to check with other forces on what 's been stolen.The police will contact people who 've reported antiques stolen to tell them if they 've been recovered . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He had been sales director for the major British manufacturer and had left two or three years ago when they were absorbed into a large industrial conglomerate . |
| 7 | There will thus have been £1M worth of relevant income . |
| 8 | Erm , in paragraph thirteen , Invest in People , the target date for er , achievement in the award has been delayed from the twenty seventh of , sorry the twenty eighth of February , until the twentieth of May , and the reason for that has been staff effort required to get community action going . |
| 9 | His doubts circled around two elements of Estabrook 's story : the assassin himself ( this Mr Pie , hired out of nowhere ) and more particularly , around the man who 'd introduced Estabrook to his hired hand : Chant , whose death had been media fodder for the past several days . |
| 10 | Neither of those two others had been Hake Bjortson . |
| 11 | We have had 23 this year , of which 13 or 14 have been works Bills . |
| 12 | Prince Charles has been deer stalking since he was a child and takes great pride in a clean kill . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | My club control a water I have been carp fishing for the last three seasons and have just imposed a hair rig ban . |