Example sentences of "[n mass] [vb past] been [verb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prosecuting counsel Anne Toynbee told magistrates at Crawley , west Sussex , that the aircraft had been parked at a stand at Gatwick on Wednesday while engineers worked on an electronic fault . |
| 2 | of the people had been smoking at the meeting . |
| 3 | Red Cross officials are trying to confirm reports that 1,200 people had been massacred at a Serb detention camp at Lukavac . |
| 4 | Further to the March-April prison camp revelations , the Interior Ministry on June 7 denied allegations made recently by the UDF in the Washington Post that 20,000 people had been killed at the Lovech and other camps . |
| 5 | Indeed , they boasted proudly that retail electricity prices had risen more slowly than the retail price index in general : although their own tariffs had risen faster , average consumption had gone up and the extra kWh had been sold at the lower incremental charges of two-part or block tariffs , thus bringing the average domestic price in their first ten years down by a fifth in real terms . |