Example sentences of "[n mass] [verb] been [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The regional authority provided £40,000 for ophthalmology and £10,000 has been identified for general surgery . |
| 3 | The big fish had been making for deep water all afternoon and Trent had n't seen a bird for the past hour . |
| 4 | Of the shortfall , departments had assessed 80m as being unobtainable , and 65m had been rejected for political and other reasons ( Making Things Happen , 1985 ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The West German newspaper Bild Zeitung cited East Berlin sources as saying 3,000 people had been imprisoned for attempted ‘ flight from the Republic ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ Other people have been disciplined for similar actions . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | On Assembly Sunday , the one just after Christian Aid Week , the visiting preacher , Rev. Stewart Matthew , told us that the day before , under the dripping trees of Holyrood , he had met a young man who had told him with pride and joy that over £13,000 had been raised for Christian Aid at his church . |