Example sentences of "[n mass] and have [be] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shop fittings which were worth £3,000 and had been bought at an auction by Transom Trading for only £1,500 prior to opening the shop in August 1991 . |
| 2 | Although himself not a sportsman he was an enthusiastic supporter of sporting activities by deaf people and had been involved as an administrator in all prewar Deaf International Games . |
| 3 | Elvers were traditionally eaten by local Gloucestershire people and have been netted in the Severn for hundreds of years . |
| 4 | Instead , bloated catalogues bulged with inferior stock and works which properly belonged in the routine day sales and had been promoted in order to provide ballast for the smarter evening sessions . |
| 5 | Biological explanations of fertility based on principles of maximizing a broadly defined reproductive success ( Wilson 1975 ) have been useful in non-human species and have been applied to human populations with natural fertility ( Borgerhoff-Mulder 1987 ) , in an attempt to relate reproductive success with the resources available to women . |
| 6 | These goods had a resale value of £12,000 and had been purchased by Transom Trading for £8,000 . |