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 | Farther north , in the Jaffna peninsula , where the rebels are strong , government aircraft have been bombing civilian areas . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | £50,000 has been made available for such upgrading work in the 1992/93 Capital Budget . |
| 5 | For years , an important desire of many working people has been to take annual holidays in the sun . |
| 6 | The maintenance staff has been working 18-hour shifts to bring the hospital into full operation . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Some people had been made redundant four times , and , what was worse , they were almost proud of it . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Peter Kemp , Durham County Council 's director of social services , said so far around 90 elderly people had been found new homes . |
| 15 | Mr Kemp said that so far around 90 elderly people had been found new homes most in other council-run establishments . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The present rendezvous had been riding high on my chart of dreads . |
| 19 | ‘ So many business have gone bust and so many people have been made redundant . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | A great many people have been getting good local press publicity for Medau during the summer . |
| 23 | It has the power to reform and transform lives ad through it countless people have been given new strength . |
| 24 | Hundreds of people have been found near to starvation at the Serb-run Omarska detention camp in Bosnia at the centre of allegations of executions and other atrocities . |
| 25 | Breeder David Neville says in the past people have been fined small amounts . |
| 26 | People have been left bemused and angry by a tidal wave of reforms that have made their country a textbook case of monetary theory pushed , perhaps , as far as possible within the constraints of electoral sustainability . |
| 27 | THOUSANDS of people have been offered free passage out of war-torn Sarajevo . |
| 28 | He said : ‘ Colin and his staff have been kept busy in Peterhead and Aberdeen , using our office at 36 Commerce Street as his Aberdeen base . |
| 29 | At one hospital staff have been taking extra steps to make sure patients know what choices they have , and they say the results are dramatic . |
| 30 | POSC member companies — the oil industry 's open systems user organisation — and the group 's permanent staff have been evaluating potential SIP components since last December . |