Example sentences of "[n mass] have been [vb pp] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ People have been killed for less , even taking it at its face value , though its actual value is very much greater . |
| 2 | ‘ Other people have been disciplined for similar actions . |
| 3 | People have been murdered for this job and no one gives a shit . |
| 4 | Convenient scapegoats perhaps , but the K G B was open about today 's activities too ; Major General Alexander Karbalnov of the K G B revealed for the first time that seven hundred thousand people have been executed for political crimes since the revolution and that three-and-a-half million have been repressed . |
| 5 | Is the Minister aware that the proposals for the expansion and development of the Dalzell works have been pursued for many years more consistently and vigorously by the Labour party than by any other party ? |