Example sentences of "[n mass] have [be] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Both sets of data have been normalised such that the lowest value is equal to 1 . |
| 3 | Farther north , in the Jaffna peninsula , where the rebels are strong , government aircraft have been bombing civilian areas . |
| 4 | A further gift of £1000 has been received this year for this purpose . |
| 5 | During the terrible retreat from Mons in late August , certain officers wrote home of their impression that their foot-sore infantry had been accompanied one night by a mysterious force of cavalry , of which no trace could be found next day . |
| 6 | Although the fish has been hooked several times , no one has succeeded in landing it . |
| 7 | • It was the year , too , when I decided my fish had been eating better than I had . |
| 8 | Furthermore , my hon. Friend the Member for Richmond and Barnes ( Mr. Hanley ) has added £2.6 million to this year 's budget for occupational therapy , and about £500,000 has been made available to the Newry and Craigavon area . |
| 9 | £50,000 has been made available for such upgrading work in the 1992/93 Capital Budget . |
| 10 | For years , an important desire of many working people has been to take annual holidays in the sun . |
| 11 | The maintenance staff has been working 18-hour shifts to bring the hospital into full operation . |
| 12 | Section 4 on competition between the Channel Tunnel and other transport modes indicated the strength of the Channel ports lobby in France and a total of 750m FFr has been made available to Calais , Boulogne , Dunkirk and Dieppe to offset the adverse effects of the Tunnel . |
| 13 | In the record company — the one division of the company which supported the rest — staff had been made redundant , yet money had been found to go on buying nightclubs , expand the empire . |
| 14 | Many people had been nursing faint hopes that the exhibition , which took Stephanie Barron five years to assemble , might be transferred to Berlin after Washington . |
| 15 | The Middle East Economic Digest of Aug. 23 , quoting the Reuters news agency , said that more than 1,500 people had been shot dead since 1986 in Karachi alone . |
| 16 | Some people had been made redundant four times , and , what was worse , they were almost proud of it . ’ |
| 17 | At least 2,000,000 people had been made homeless by the war , the report said , and it estimated food aid needs for 1991 as totalling approximately 1,000,000 tonnes . |
| 18 | Many of the victims were in the south-eastern districts around Chittagong and Cox 's Bazar , and unofficial reports indicated that up to 10,000,000 people had been made homeless . |
| 19 | Peter Kemp , Durham County Council 's director of social services , said so far around 90 elderly people had been found new homes . |
| 20 | Mr Kemp said that so far around 90 elderly people had been found new homes most in other council-run establishments . |
| 21 | The Salvadorean Human Rights Commission ( CDHES ) stated at the end of September 1989 that since Cristiani took office on June 1 , 1989 , 296 people had been found murdered , 416 had been detained and 48 had disappeared . |
| 22 | In Nigeria a total of 22,901 people had been reported infected and 2,161 as having died since the outbreak of the disease in May . |
| 23 | At the end of September 143 people had been waiting more than a year . |
| 24 | The present rendezvous had been riding high on my chart of dreads . |
| 25 | ‘ So many business have gone bust and so many people have been made redundant . |
| 26 | Six people have been made redundant at its European Headquarters in Egham , Surrey and two sales staff have gone from its office in Munich already . |
| 27 | A total of 1,000 people have been made homeless and , because of the seriousness of the damage to their homes , will have to stay in temporary accommodation for several months . |
| 28 | A great many people have been getting good local press publicity for Medau during the summer . |
| 29 | A spokeswoman for the independent Kings Fund Institute said : ‘ There 's a myth that old people have been getting fitter . |
| 30 | Since the end of the Second World War people have been getting fatter . |