Example sentences of "[n mass] have been [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 This straight bob has been kept in maximum condition with the Bain de Terre Spa Therapy range
2 An incidence as high as 10% has been reported after combined procedures .
3 Detectives believe that well over £1million has been netted in false insurance claims on policies with the Scottish based General Accident company .
4 Since that time , more than £1.51m has been spent on crime-fighting schemes , with running costs adding a further £100,000-a-year .
5 Renewals for further periods of three years will not be unreasonably refused where the Data has been incorporated into composite works which the Licensee wishes to maintain . ’
6 When an aircraft has been certificated against fail-safe criteria , those portions of the structure considered significant in the fail-safe design should be identified in the approved inspection schedule and their relative importance defined .
7 The aircraft had been fitted with aerodynamic modifications that were not approved by the CAA .
8 Do women have power in some areas and men in others ? — and to question the ways in which this data had been handled in existing sociological accounts .
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 Two of the women had their throats slit after the rapes , ’ the report states.Victims have been assaulted in different situations , said Ms Hampson .
11 Data have been exchanged with international seismological agencies based in Boulder ( Colorado ) , Newbury ( England ) and Strasbourg ( France ) , and also with Norway and participants in an EC exchange network comprising Ireland , Denmark , The Netherlands , Belgium , Luxembourg , France and Germany .
12 Equal-area projection of group-mean data ( stars , lower-hemisphere projections ; reverse-polarity data have been inverted to normal polarity ) with α 95 confidence cones for South Mountains granodiorite ( Tsm ) , Telegraph Pass granite ( Ttp ) , felsic dykes ( Tfd ) , and microdiorite dykes ( Tmd ) .
13 Vitrinite reflectance data have been used in structural studies with the principal applications being the estimate of removed overburden at unconformities and the recognition of repeated section caused by faults ( Dow , 1977 ) .
14 The techniques for displaying spatial data have been reviewed in previous chapters .
15 Although aspirin has been implicated in chronic analgesic nephropathy recent studies have case doubt on this association .
16 The regional authority provided £40,000 for ophthalmology and £10,000 has been identified for general surgery .
17 A further 20% has been consigned by private Chinese people and about 15% from the storehouses of state-owned antique stores .
18 Mr Steisel says annual savings of over $100m have been achieved in recent years .
19 The big fish had been making for deep water all afternoon and Trent had n't seen a bird for the past hour .
20 Of the shortfall , departments had assessed 80m as being unobtainable , and 65m had been rejected for political and other reasons ( Making Things Happen , 1985 ) .
21 Few salmon are encountered in Loch Doon these days , but brown trout abound and some huge fish have been caught in recent years .
22 Banana exports of $6,500,000 had been lost by early May and the coffee trade had been seriously disrupted .
23 In particular , dictionary definitions and co-occurrence statistics have been identified as valuable sources of semantic information .
24 The importance of the inequalities in the work environment and in the incomes of people has been under-estimated in social policy debates .
25 Since then , more than £800,000 has been spent in improving matters for the spectators who will flock to the event with improved viewing at the eleventh , fourteenth , fifteenth , sixteenth and seventeenth holes .
26 Since then , more than £800,000 has been spent in improving matters for the spectators who will flock to the event with improved viewing at the eleventh , fourteenth , fifteenth , sixteenth and seventeenth holes .
27 Thirteen million pounds raised by council house sales has been frozen by central government and today 's new build is all with private money for private buyers .
28 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 .
29 At Mbuji-Mayi , in Kasai Oriental region , it was reported on April 23 that nine people had been killed during violent demonstrations .
30 Several hundred people had been killed in religious riots in northern Nigeria during 1991 [ see pp. 38519 ; 38135-36 ] .
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