Example sentences of "[n mass] have [vb pp] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some bony fish have emulated the cartilaginous skates and rays and taken to the bottom-living life , abandoning the swim-bladder that , ancestrally , was the source of their success . |
| 2 | He invited people to sign a declaration : ‘ I , the undersigned , promise to learn ( it ) if it appears that 10 million people have given the same promise . ’ |
| 3 | And in this place the people have given the precious rain a name . |
| 4 | you know in terms of , not necessarily the precise content , but you can get erm some general idea about how people have studied the mental life of blind persons and how , you know , maybe it 's interesting that er presumably most of the people who 've studied it are themselves sighted rather than blind themselves you know |
| 5 | A dread of torture and physical mutilation haunts the countryside — not least because so many people have witnessed the mutilated bodies of victims dumped in the street by the security forces . |
| 6 | Personal versions of the recipients of Lyn Muir 's shelf people have become the fashionable gifts , especially in the USA . |
| 7 | The Minister will have noted that other people have joined the anti-privatisation lobby in relation to electricity , as he will have discovered on Monday . |
| 8 | But when I met her and shook her hand I had a feeling which is hard to explain — other people have had the same experience when meeting this lady . |
| 9 | At the same time , the ospreys were shown to the public , and over a million people have enjoyed the magnificent sight of the spectacular , fish-eating birds of prey from the RSPB viewing point . |
| 10 | it do n't open till all the people have used the short gallops . |
| 11 | ‘ Many people have left the bright lights and made a success in tourism-related businesses and cottage industries , such as cheese-making and brewing , ’ says Terry Trevarthen , regional director for Miller Countrywide in Truro . |
| 12 | Lives have been ruined because people have read the wrong books or looked at the wrong pictures . |
| 13 | The United Nations has reported that thousands of people have fled the Moslem enclave of Zepa following Serb shelling . |
| 14 | Weather prediction is vital to the success of farming and other activities , and for centuries people have watched the natural world closely and used it as a guide . |
| 15 | People have got the wrong idea about this one . |
| 16 | Not as a church , people have got the wrong idea , we sometimes get these tour guides going round saying , oh was there a monastery here ? |
| 17 | For many years university academic staff have enjoyed the unique position of having tenure for their working lives , the argument in support of this being that it protected academic staff from political pressure and avoided the possibility of someone being dismissed for expressing unpopular or unconventional views . |
| 18 | Lawns outside the Fulford Road headquarters have proved the ideal breeding ground . |