Example sentences of "[n mass] had an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Macmillan and Sandys , as Minister of Aviation , fought hard to prevent cancellation , but Watkinson and the Chiefs of Staff had an unbeatable operational case . |
| 2 | As a matter of fact , it was one of those cases where the nursing staff had an unreasonable wish for him to live for ever — he was a very charming man . |
| 3 | The Romanian section 's staff had an alarming tendency to die from cancer . |
| 4 | Too many people had an interest in her whereabouts and she did n't have much faith in her disguise . |
| 5 | Helped by some of the Diocesan Youth Service volunteers , Father Wright showed delegates that many young people had an ambivalent attitude to the Church . |
| 6 | The idea that there was a golden age of family obligations in the past was born out of a desire to ensure that increasing numbers of elderly people ( and other dependent groups ) in the population did not become too heavy a burden financially upon the wealthier classes ; hence the anxieties about whether working-class people had an adequate sense of ‘ filial affection ’ , which can be documented from at least the nineteenth century . |
| 7 | At the beginning of the popular health system many people had an ambivalent attitude to traditional herbal remedies . |
| 8 | The other time I remember was when William the chromium platers in Street ye got bombed , with a high explosive bomb , but there was , there was no one hurt that I remember , and then the Halleys the tent people had an incendiary bombs and got burnt out , at the same night that they dropped some incendiary bombs on the bus depot in Road , they , they were a lot of work for the fire brigade , but comparatively speaking with , with Birmingham I think Walsall got off very lightly as regards the bombing , as there was no heavy industry around here . |
| 9 | The importance of such direct , if only fleeting and superficial , contact with exotic cultures is further demonstrated by Maine 's contemporary , Lewis Henry Morgan ( 1818–81 ) , an American lawyer who inaugurated the study of kinship and whose works had an important influence on Marx and Engels . |