Example sentences of "[n mass] [vb past] 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 big fish had been making for deep water all afternoon and Trent had n't seen a bird for the past hour .
3 Of the shortfall , departments had assessed 80m as being unobtainable , and 65m had been rejected for political and other reasons ( Making Things Happen , 1985 ) .
4 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 .
5 The West German newspaper Bild Zeitung cited East Berlin sources as saying 3,000 people had been imprisoned for attempted ‘ flight from the Republic ’ .
6 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 .
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