Example sentences of "[n mass] have [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The People 's Militia has been busy ripping down posters put up by the Civic Forum in factories and elsewhere . |
| 2 | Soon , thought Henry , feeling , as he often did , a sense of solidarity with chickens , they would label one with THIS FOWL HAS BEEN HAND-REARED AND TALKED TO NICELY . |
| 3 | There is no suggestion that the WM data has been faulty . |
| 4 | The aircraft had been resident with an Air Training Corps unit until the late 1940s when it was disposed of by burying it ! |
| 5 | The question in this situation is , would the pilot have recognised that this would not have been possible if the aircraft had been 50 feet lower ? |
| 6 | The effects of the net changes in social class have been modelled explicitly for the university sector in a number of forecasts ( Diamond and Smith , 1982 , 1984 ; Diamond , 1985 ; AUT , 1983 ; Collins , 1983 ) as well as implicitly by the DES ( 1984a , b , 1986b ) .4 These effects have been the most important single factor for which data have been available at a national level albeit only for the university sector . |
| 7 | Economists and economic historians have been interested in measuring poverty and wealth on a per capita basis for some time , and such data have been available for some of the advanced industrial countries for many years . |
| 8 | Reducing prices to under £10 has been one method . |
| 9 | For so long the London folk had been patient and kindly helping one another , and always so cheerful . |
| 10 | Even fish-pox on a couple of Koi has vanished without trace , and the growth rate of some ( not all ) of the fish has been encouraging . |
| 11 | Remissions for crime , given as part of the justice of the feud when the victims of the crime or their kin had been satisfied , were not in fact a sign of weakness on the part of the crown , forced to acquiesce with an aristocracy resistant to justice , as the author of ‘ L'Etat et puissance ’ had suggested ; they were the crown 's part in a highly effective means of controlling crime , dispute and disorder . |
| 12 | Educational qualifications for entry into the officer corps had been lower than for other comparable elements of the administration . |
| 13 | Of the 2,329 youngsters registered with Hampshire County Council Careers Service , 21 percent have been unemployed for six months or more . |
| 14 | He said : ‘ It is the case that landings of fish have been good recently and that has depressed the price of fish at the market . |
| 15 | Therefore once the fish have been salt-bathed and returned to the pond ( or aquarium ) an anti-fluke remedy should be added . |
| 16 | The swine had been amused , she was sure of it ! |
| 17 | Since the prize was first announced , a panel of distinguished people has been involved in the delicate task of choosing the first recipient . |
| 18 | PC Ron Hall , who suffered serious leg injuries and underwent emergency surgery in Middlesbrough General Hospital , said : ‘ The response from people has been overwhelming . |
| 19 | Initial feedback from staff has been encouraging and I hope that this will be reflected in the questionnaires which all staff in BBD have been asked to complete . |
| 20 | The effect on staff has been dreadful . |
| 21 | But Mr Davies said : ‘ We have had cases of people who we have suspected of being infected and the degree of compassion and humanity among other staff has been remarkable . ’ |
| 22 | So far this year the value of sales has been 5 per cent higher than in the first ten months of 1990 . |
| 23 | Indeed , the print run for these sales has been enormous : some 8,000–9,000 catalogues . |
| 24 | He said the media had been impulsive in reporting the incident and that Mansell and Ferrari had appealed to two different bodies — the national motorsports tribunal in Portugal and FIA 's international tribunal . |
| 25 | The day before , she told me , the hospital staff had been dismayed to see a young girl about to deliver , shackled in leg-irons and handcuffs , escorted to the maternity ward by armed guards . |
| 26 | Neville had been to see Private Eye , and its staff had been courteous , but faintly aloof . |
| 27 | He added that Sergia 's people had been grateful , though they 'd ushered Chertro and his prisoner off-planet as soon as they could . |
| 28 | A pilot scheme involving 2,000 people had been successful and £500,000 for a further survey of 20,000 people had been promised by the Health Education Authority and the Economic and Social Research Council ( ESRC ) . |
| 29 | The other night , for example , after a meeting in Holyhead , someone asked how many people had been present . |
| 30 | The people had been friendly , and she had known her way around . |