Example sentences of "[n mass] have [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In steady-state cornering , chassis has bags of grip but a lumpy ride .
2 [ 4 ] Some of the anxiety generated by the issues discussed in this volume arise from the awareness that electronic data has possibilities for future historical analysis which can not be provided by paper based data .
3 About half ( 55% ) had acid secretion in the normal range , one third ( 35% ) had acid hypersecretion , and 10% had achlorhydria .
4 We had lights but no instruments , other aircraft had instruments but no lights , so we flew close together .
5 Pardue 's aircraft had metal on the oil filter screens as well as part of a piston ring .
6 Such cross-shareholdings are commonplace in Japan and in continental Europe , but tend not to work so well in the US — Control Data had 20% of Silicon Graphics and sold it ; Compaq Computer Corp sold the stake it bought to cement the Advanced Computing Environment Initiative in less than a year .
7 the Masai officers should be of exceptional physique , preferably unmarried ( though this has disadvantages ) but , if married , then without children ; that their wives shd. be happy in solitary surroundings , and that they ( the men ) should , if possible , be able to pick up Masai and shd. have leanings towards the study of native customs .
8 Probably 10% are students , and 25% have incomes greater than $10,000 .
9 Because of the importance of coupling between depleted NO x , elevated ClO x and ozone loss , we suggest that the data have significance in the wider global context , even though mid-latitude ozone loss through background aerosol chemistry has not been demonstrated directly .
10 Similarly , most aircraft have flaps and the majority of these have leading edge slats too , but Concorde has none .
11 Aircraft have transponder systems which locate the aircraft exactly so that everyone for several miles around knows where the aircraft is .
12 A cross between a parent having AB and a parent having OO would result in 50% of offspring having A and 50% having B.
13 Until the end of the war so very few folk had beards , and then only short ones nicely trimmed , but into the room came a most handsome young man with a black fuzz of over eight inches .
14 The data bank 's research shows that 45% of Japanese property companies have debts greater than two years ' worth of their sales and 32% have debts greater than three years of sales .
15 ‘ Some folk have plastic gnomes , some have swimming pools .
16 Take the case of the thirteenth Earl Ferrers , a man to whom all drinking folk have reason to be grateful .
17 He was six feet tall and 185 pounds and had muscles the way a fish has scales .
18 It can cost between 50p and £1.50 to have passports produced , depending on the print run and the complexity .
19 A recent edition of Priorities , a publication of the American Council on Science and Health , reported that a Food and Drug Administration study showed that in 7,394 samples of domestic food , 65 percent contained no pesticide residues and 34 percent had residue levels below the legal tolerance level .
20 The NFPA study tested 7,000 samples and found that 79.8 percent contained no residues , 18.7 percent contained residues within the legal tolerance limit and 1.8 percent had residues above the legal limit .
21 Twenty-five percent had jobs directly related to farming and a further 11% had constant contact with farmers .
22 Apart from a brief period during the First World War , when the Royal Flying Corps had use of the area inside the circuit , Brooklands was used continuously from 1907 to the outbreak of the Second World War .
23 As for frequency , 13% have sex at least 4 times a week ( with 1 man in 50 making it a daily occurrence ) .
24 The viper fish and the hatchet fish have lights on their underside .
25 Chris believes that it is no accident that many of the herbs which are associated with fish and cooking , such as parsley and fennel , grow better in places where fish have access to them .
26 This means that the fish have material washed down to them as well as having a greater area of the varzeas ( Amazonian flood plains ) in which to forage , introducing both food and herbs not otherwise available to aquatic life , in a form that can be used by them .
27 The early fossil bony fish have tails with the long blade uppermost , whereas the more advanced living bony fish have a tail that is symmetrical , and more effective in producing a horizontal thrust .
28 By the light of the door open behind her , she saw the letter propped against the bowl of pot-pourri , addressed to The Rev 'd T. Braithwaite .
29 Measuring 13′ × 11′ having feature fireplace with tiled background and hardwood surround , fitted ‘ Real Flame ’ gas fire , picture rail and french door leading to the garden .
30 A Pekinese had hold of his ankle .
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