Example sentences of "[n mass] [vb past] [been] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To date only two deformed fry had been removed . |
| 2 | We wish to point out Darlington 's Tory candidate Michael Fallon said £22.4m had been ploughed into housing association grants for the town since 1979 and not housing authority grants as was stated . |
| 3 | The bonds will return only around 7% a year , but $21m-worth had been sold by January 23rd . |
| 4 | Despite frantic last-minute appeals , only £1,634,000 had been raised by the time the offer stopped — still well short of the new lower target of £2 million . |
| 5 | As reported on April 19 , 1990 , credit lines of US$11,000,000 and $3,000,000 had been granted respectively by an unidentified Japanese company and the Import-Export Bank of South Korea . |
| 6 | At the trial of the issue before Cave J. it was proved that the whole sum of £2,090 19S. had been paid by instalments , but the respondent claimed interest . |
| 7 | South West Water said 477 claims worth £123,644 had been settled , with 318 more still outstanding . |
| 8 | In later letters to Hanns , John mentioned that ‘ we have quite a lot of black tarlatan , so if you could use it in your designs , do so ’ , as about £1 had been allowed for each costume and the tarlatan was free . |
| 9 | We were pleased to record the sum of £267 had been collected but this was not the final figure . |
| 10 | Unbeknown to the judge , however , the prisoner had been persuaded to tape-record his conversation with Ross during which a price of $100,000 had been agreed . |
| 11 | The other two aircraft had been damaged but got off with bullet holes only . ’ |
| 12 | I was told that I would have to take a strange aircraft that night , I learnt that my aircraft had been damaged by flak — and Italian flak to boot — and one of my lads was in hiding as he claimed I had threatened him with dire punishment if he damaged my aircraft . |
| 13 | There is no suggestion that , though all three aircraft had been hit by flak over Caen on the outward journey , Leslie 's had come down then . |
| 14 | I assume the aircraft had been hit . |
| 15 | ‘ The Piper pilot was convinced his aircraft had been hit . |
| 16 | Once of the aircraft had been fitted with some new kit and a whip aerial had been mounted on one of its bomb doors . |
| 17 | The aircraft had been fitted with aerodynamic modifications that were not approved by the CAA . |
| 18 | The aircraft had been flown already that day , before refuelling for Herr Hess 's trip , and the motor was still warm . |
| 19 | GENERAL AIRCRAFT had been formed to exploit the patents of the Monospar Wing Co ltd . |
| 20 | The original thirty-six aircraft had been increased or replaced by about thirty-six Soviet fighter aircraft . |
| 21 | Although it was well established which major airlines were currently operating them , many others of these aircraft had been resold , sometimes several times over , to smaller companies . |
| 22 | The aircraft had been leased to a Nigerian company Holdtrade on a short-term basis by Montreal-based Nationair . |
| 23 | After more 10,000 allied air sorties , however , he was able to confirm that only 41 enemy aircraft had been destroyed and that Saddam Hussein and his generals retained effective command and control over their forces . |
| 24 | Once the initial problems encountered during the first run of six aircraft had been overcome , it was assured the time limit could be met . |
| 25 | The range and technological sophistication of the aircraft had been seen as necessary to penetrate advanced Soviet air defences , but were of less value against less advanced military opponents . |
| 26 | The crash of the Sea King helicopter in which twenty members of the S.A.S. died was reported as the regiment 's single greatest loss since a whole troop with an aircraft had been posted missing in the Second World War . |
| 27 | Work on this aircraft had been prompted by the success earlier of an experimental lightweight hull used in a converted Supermarine Southampton known as the A.14 . |
| 28 | Reports that the country 's US-supplied fleet of F-16 fighter aircraft had been grounded due to a critical lack of spare parts were denied on Jan. 23 by the Minister for Defence Production , Mir Hazar Khan Bijrani . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Boeing had done their best to keep tabs on which aircraft had been sold to whom but some were no longer in service or had been damaged and discarded while one or two had even lost their identity , so that it was difficult to trace where they were and under whose jurisdiction they fell . |