Example sentences of "money had been " in BNC.
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| 1 | The task force was set up after detectives discovered that some of the money had been used to finance drugs and property dealing in the United States and even invested in London 's Docklands , realising millions of pounds in profits . |
| 2 | Gainsborough 's executives were pushed very much against their will into an expensive production of Christopher Columbus ( 1949 ) , simply because a lot of money had been spent on a script . |
| 3 | The court was told between 1968 and 1982 money had been syphoned out of syndicates as purported reinsurance premiums to overseas companies controlled by Mr Cameron-Webb . |
| 4 | There was evidence that Barlow Clowes investors ' money had been put into shares in James Ferguson , run by Mr Clowes ' ally Guy von Cramer . |
| 5 | The armed men eventually let me retrieve my bag and notebook — my money had been taken — and remain in the lobby . |
| 6 | But what it meant to both of them was that all the money was frozen because there was a dispute over whose money was what and how much money had been spent — that was a problem for David and for Tony . |
| 7 | Many partnerships went public in the 1980s to secure capital , so the discipline that comes from handling one 's own money had been eroded . |
| 8 | He had appointed the Tower Commission , he said , specifically to find out whether money had been generated from the arms sales beyond the ‘ twelve million two ’ , and , if so , who had done it ; but no one had come back with an answer . |
| 9 | Nothing could be more unsatisfactory than Ellen 's barely decipherable notes which came rarely and only after money had been remitted . |
| 10 | In some cases this money had been spent on ‘ magnificent sports centres , public buildings , and libraries ’ , as well as on useless projects such as FENI . |
| 11 | We were introduced to the Mint House and , as Nancy and I listened , we learnt that money had been made there before the Royal Mint in London . |
| 12 | By an effort of memory she could just recall a time when money had been plentiful , and her father — then strong and well — had spent it with a gay extravagance which had delighted her as a small child . |
| 13 | Emily felt hurt and betrayed by a close friend who had borrowed a considerable sum of money towards down-payment on a house and then , when Emily eventually enquired about repayment , angrily claimed that she thought the money had been a gift . |
| 14 | The money had been made available ; that was not the problem . |
| 15 | Eagle argued that Mr Ferriday had arranged for its money to be used to satisfy his obligations under the sub-underwriting arrangements that Savory Milln had entered into in circumstances in which Savory Milln ought to have known or been put on inquiry that the money had been misappropriated from Eagle . |
| 16 | Savory argued that a stranger to whom money had been paid in breach of trust could only be held liable as a constructive trustee to account for the money after he had parted with it , if it could be shown that he knew the money misapplied was trust money . |
| 17 | The fly in the ointment was that money had been switched from the Department of the Environment which is accountable to Parliament . |
| 18 | A further Sh.1,050,000/ — had to be found if they were to survive , and no extra money had been voted by Parliament . |
| 19 | At the end of the five-year period , no money had been invested in projects for broadcasting except for a new medium wave transmitter in Dar es Salaam . |
| 20 | A lot of time and money had been spent rebuilding the works necessary to complete the job but such were the difficulties experienced that the whole project became completely impracticable and the LNWR conceded defeat and altered the route of the line to exclude the land at Tunstead Farm . |
| 21 | The money had been frozen because , under Government accounting rules , it technically plunges Britain further into debt . |
| 22 | Immediately after the dummy was produced , Thornton found that money had been raised in his home city of Newcastle by using his name without permission . |
| 23 | Only half the money had been taken . |
| 24 | That was the end of her working , and anyway the money had been peanuts . |
| 25 | How is it that you do n't know and in your letter to me you said this trust did not know where that money had been withdrawn at the same time Andrew director of Eastern Arts was quite happy to write to me to tell me why he was quite happy to tell the press over the phone why how is it the trust did n't know ? |
| 26 | When parliament heard the news of Crécy the commons ‘ thanked God for the great victory He had given their king and they said that all their money had been well spent ’ . |
| 27 | This act is hardly likely to have endeared the chiefs to the Roman cause , especially if all the money had been spent , and could have been a deciding factor in the hardening of the changing attitudes in some of the royal households . |
| 28 | Initially , in her sworn depositions , Hildenbrand apparently said that the delay in payment to the gallery was due to an unnamed Japanese intermediary ; Feigen states that she then ‘ admitted in sworn testimony that she had perjured herself , which is a felony , and that the entity owned by Lanzone and herself had in fact received the money $600,000 of it seven months earlier , and then $200,000 and that the money had been spent on Lanzone 's home mortgage and restaurant expenses ’ . |
| 29 | They had thought their money had been safe in gilts ( government backed securities ) . |
| 30 | The Trades Council recorded in its minutes of 28 January that elements of pressure had been put upon [ the Edinburgh printers ] , enormous sums of money had been expended , rare inducements had been held out , untruths had been circulated , even religion had been abused [ ? ] and brought to play on purpose to shake the men , and yet after all these means had been expended and an income verging on starvation , the men had remained as firm as at first . " |