Example sentences of "[n mass] have be [vb pp] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | So far £40 has been offered for the ball and £5 for the framed picture . |
| 2 | A cheque for £290 has been sent for the June quarter . |
| 3 | House moves fell from a peak of 2.3m in 1989 to only 1m last year , but a recovery to 1.3m has been predicted for the current year . |
| 4 | No porosity or permeability data has been published for the oolitic grainstones but these are known to be porous in the southern North Sea and Poland where they display both primary inter-granular and leached intragranular pores ( Taylor and Colter 1975 ; Peryt and Piatkowski 1977 ; Peryt 1978 ) . |
| 5 | " Your Majesty , the aircraft has been arranged for Friday . |
| 6 | " I 'm only authorized to say that the aircraft has been prepared for friday . " |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Rewards totalling £20,000 have been offered for information leading to the conviction of those responsible . |
| 11 | The aircraft have been held for a week because Paramount owes Bristol and Birmingham International airports £1.7million . |
| 12 | The regional authority provided £40,000 for ophthalmology and £10,000 has been identified for general surgery . |
| 13 | A RARE Chinese vase worth up to £100,000 has been used for years as a flowerpot . |
| 14 | Sumisho Electronics Corp is is to distribute the parallel database servers from Bracknell , Berkshire-based White Cross Systems Ltd in Japan : three orders worth £750,000 have been placed for the 9010 Deskside Server — two for customers , one for Sumisho 's own Tokyo office . |
| 15 | Sums of up to £10,000 have been earmarked for both Pocket Theatre and Durham Theatre Company pending further discussions . |
| 16 | Of the shortfall , departments had assessed 80m as being unobtainable , and 65m had been rejected for political and other reasons ( Making Things Happen , 1985 ) . |
| 17 | A low price — in Japan — of $15,200 has been set for the desktop models , which have a 256-colour thin-film transistor screens , and have a 50% smaller footprint than previous models . |
| 18 | The publication of correspondence between famous people has been used for many years for the purposes of scholastic enquiry . |
| 19 | The Department of Health 's annual Keep Warm , Keep Well campaign to advise elderly people has been launched for this winter . |
| 20 | A BANGOR man found in possession of cannabis worth a street value of £40,000 has been jailed for 18 months . |
| 21 | THE slump in house sales has been blamed for the failure of a West of Scotland estate agents which owes creditors £70,765 . |
| 22 | Although some 35pc of Carpetright is nominally for public offer , up to 10pc has been earmarked for directors and employees . |
| 23 | A report in The Nation ( Bangkok , Thailand ) of Oct. 28 quoted a Myanma government official as saying that 1,087 people had been detained for political offences since the military takeover on Sept. 18 , 1988 , and that 100 people had been sentenced to death during the previous three months by both military tribunals and civilian courts . |
| 24 | The West German newspaper Bild Zeitung cited East Berlin sources as saying 3,000 people had been imprisoned for attempted ‘ flight from the Republic ’ . |
| 25 | The official New China News agency ( Xinhua ) reported that in the first nine months of the year 11,503 people had been arrested for such crimes . |
| 26 | On the previous day the Democratic Party had claimed that at least 200 people had been arrested for their part in the previous week 's demonstrations . |
| 27 | In some cases that were drawn to the attention of the Juridical and Human Rights Commission of the main Protestant organization ( CEPAD ) , people had been held for as long as three months without being interrogated . |
| 28 | But by 1983 sales had been arranged for part of Britoil , Associated British Ports , Amersham International , shares in BP , and the NEB 's shareholdings ( Table 8.2 ) . |
| 29 | The King claimed that all the funds acquired through the passport sales had been accounted for . |
| 30 | During the term of the previous Parliament , no fewer than 10 MPs had been prosecuted for corruption ; the most celebrated case involved former Deputy Prime Minister Ted Diro in September 1991 [ see pp. 38534-35 ] . |