Example sentences of "[n mass] have [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since then the assumptions underpinning , and the meanings attributed to , census data have changed a good deal . |
| 2 | 3M has launched a hazardous spill response kit for use with bench-top or floor spills . |
| 3 | I had invited any of the hospital staff who had cared to come , and my ‘ Dawes Road ’ friend Miss Dorrie Pierce told me that church folk had organized a little wedding tea , and my husband-to-be had ordered and paid for a wedding cake . |
| 4 | More recently , northern folk have seized a greater share in responsibility for their own affairs ; they seek to take advantage of southern benefits , while at the same time maintaining their northern identity . |
| 5 | In reality no fish has to eat a vast amount of food , though luckily for us some are right pigs ! |
| 6 | Of the 195 members of the Paris Academy of Sciences to be honored with an official eulogy before the Revolution of 1789 , at least twenty percent had received a Jesuit education . |
| 7 | 5 Corps had made a consequential agreement with Yugoslav Fourth Army that " any formation wrongly surrendered will be returned to Tito " . |
| 8 | By the middle of the Devonian the lobe-finned fish had acquired a suitable set of bones and muscles , and a stumpy fin arrangement that could easily be adapted to a four-footed locomotion . |
| 9 | Many fish have found a neat solution to this problem . |
| 10 | These fish have had a special place in my heart ever since I first kept them some years ago , and they are naturally a shoaling fish . |
| 11 | The fish have bred a few times but each time the fry have died . |
| 12 | The first was on the local islet of Likangloe , where the once abundant population of wild goats had recently been massively reduced in inverse proportion to that of the snakes which ate them , and where the resident family of fisherfolk had lost a sixteen-year-old daughter to a python only the year before . |
| 13 | Since 1979 , the Ministry of Public Health and Social Welfare statistics have shown a miraculous improvement after decades of progressive deterioration . |
| 14 | Heraeus has launched a new range of modular temperature and climatic cabinets . |
| 15 | The media has played a key role in presenting the Arab people as somewhat ‘ different ’ . |
| 16 | To reproduce them by traditional means has required a special camera which can reduce the photograph to the required size and , at the same time , convert it into a pattern of dots — a process called halftone screening . |
| 17 | Trading standards officer say the recent growth in car boot sales has provided a perfect outlet for the computer pirates . |
| 18 | Trading standards officer say the recent growth in car boot sales has provided a perfect outlet for the computer pirates . |
| 19 | Official domestic media had maintained a virtual silence over Deng 's January tour of the Shenzhen and Zhuhai special economic zones ( SEZs ) in Guangdong province , which had been extensively reported by the Hong Kong press , both Beijing-controlled and independent . |
| 20 | The media had recognised a good subject in the white-haired surgeon in his plus-twos and St. Andrew 's pullover , with his characteristic swing and follow-through — his body leaning forward and the club aimed like a rifle at the flag . |
| 21 | Pearn and the members of his staff had started a monthly publication called Burma Today , giving news brought out by men who had gone in with Wingate , photographs taken by army photographers or by RAF planes on patrol , and first-hand accounts by people smuggled out of occupied Burma or coming out from the growing number of liberated areas . |
| 22 | People were slow to come out and if these people had made a concerted effort in the beginning it might have been different ’ . |
| 23 | His people had wrung a meagre living from it . |
| 24 | First of all , in the elections to the assembly , the people had given a resounding vote of confidence to three parties , all of which were opposed to de Gaulle 's constitutional principles . |
| 25 | During the dark early days of the war , the local people had felt a strange sense of security just to see her pass by . |
| 26 | Educated people had become a despised group , just as during the Cultural Revolution , when they suffered verbal and physical abuse . |
| 27 | Deportation can not be used to achieve extradition , and the Home Secretary could not use his powers to revoke television licences where people had bought a new licence early in order to avoid a price increase . |
| 28 | Most people had brought a packed lunch and this was eaten in the sun on Kidderminster Station platform . |
| 29 | Although Beveridge argued that once older people had worked a full course and fulfilled ‘ the obligation of service ’ they were to receive ‘ an adequate income to maintain them ’ , this has never been the case in practice . |
| 30 | Chamberlain may have shrunk visibly as the clouds across the face of Europe had grown darker , but the British people had taken a different path . |