Example sentences of "[n mass] [Wh pn] have [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 She felt grateful to those fairy Brownie folk who had planted the stepping-stones in the river so firmly .
2 He might put down until kingdom come the dully literal truth of the way she talked , but when it was written out it was clearly not credible , except maybe as the English of Nkrumah , or of an Eskimo who had studied the language by gramophone record .
3 The researchers looked at a sample of 302 people who had inherited a house .
4 The phone-in revealed two more people who had called the police to remove Sure Style salesmen .
5 ICI claimed this was not harmful to residents in the area and they had only received a small number of complaints from people who had inhaled the gas .
6 He organised a meeting of some of the more militant people who had attended the NICRA meeting and about two months later the DHAC was launched .
7 So down at squadron level we had this very much in our minds when in time the orders came down through Group , through station , right to the people who had to do the carting and the bombing , I feel I should explain right at the outset that I can only view at the later stages of the war the state of morale as I saw it in the entire Pathfinder Force .
8 As recently as two weeks ago sources close to Mr Parkinson ruled out changing the route at this late stage , saying it would revive uncertainty , antagonise people who had escaped the BR route , and cause an unacceptable delay to legislation .
9 But what the people who had made the banner were aware of , was that they were exploited , the wealth did n't go to them .
10 But the prejudice against money-lending was a bar to the development of credit and of the money economy in general ; and it was singularly fortunate for the Europe of the eleventh and twelfth centuries that there was a substantial group of active and intelligent people who had overcome the prohibition of usury .
11 One history teacher , more imaginative than the others , not content with facts and analyses , supplemented these by reading aloud lengthy passages from the diaries or memoirs of people who had witnessed the events we were studying .
12 Labour 's campaign coordinator Jack Cunningham was forced to apologise yesterday to Hexham woman Caroline Drain after her name was included without her permission on a list of people who had telephoned the health hotline to say they were waiting for operations .
13 In the survey of people who had used the tape ‘ Coping with Anxiety ’ , produced by the Liverpool based Council for Involuntary Tranquilliser Addiction [ CITA ] , four out of five anxiety sufferers questioned said they had benefited from it , experiencing a reduction in their anxiety , fewer panic attacks or a better night 's sleep .
14 Rosie jumped and people who had taken no interest in Ruby since she had sat down made excuses to walk by the diary desk and see what she was up to .
15 Opren was withdrawn from sale by the company , Dista Products , last August following the deaths of more than 50 old people who had taken the drug .
16 Everyone was there : the host families , the pianists , Mildred Fender , Susan Tilley , Richard Rodzinski , John Giordano , Dudley Moore , the judges , the people who had thrown the parties , the people who had gone to the parties .
17 During a 12 month period our laboratory investigated 10871 people who had had a course of hepatitis B vaccine .
18 They were just embarrassed by the fact that the Kurds ' predicament was being televised and people who had backed the war under the impression that it was a struggle for human rights and freedom were beginning to ask troublesome questions .
19 The UDF claimed that those tolerating local opposition to Turkish classes were the same people who had instigated the repression of Turkish-speakers after 1984 .
20 Mr Smith , the feast secretary , echoed these sentiments , as he told me how people who had left the village returned annually for the feast ; there were people here today from as far away as Bournemouth .
21 Donna glanced around , looking for Ryker amongst the three or four dozen other people who had left the train along with her .
22 ‘ Mrs Kennedy Smith and I chatted about the people who had left the area for America in the 1800s .
23 People who 've lost a Rottweiler often want another adult dog , rather than encourage the puppy market .
24 There is some professional resistance , in the sense that people who 've done a lot of work on programming get used to certain sorts of languages , and if you make proposals about teaching some new way of dealing with computers , they throw up their hands in horror , and object that this is going to be inefficient , or it 's not going to prepare people adequately for what goes on in industry , or whatever .
25 Ta , talking to other people who 've done the course .
26 We tell people who 've got a tan how healthy they look but , while there 's no doubt the sun 's rays give you a small boost of vitamin D , you get that from day-to-day exposure anyway .
27 Now , that may be very idealistic and it 's obviously not all retired or old people who 've got a lot of wisdom unless you want to tell their stories .
28 I mean I mean obviously the it may be that erm there 's very little these days I 'm afraid which is an absolutely copper bottomed guarantee you know but if if if they were able to say well you know yes we do take people who 've got the exams you know we took somebody last year or whatever .
29 We 're aiming it at , at private individuals — people who 've got an interest in the Stock Exchange , and are trying to update their interest and get as much information as they can about it .
30 For the people who 've produced the village archive it 's the end of two year 's hard work .
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