Example sentences of "[n mass] have [verb] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many people have succumbed to torpor after a week 's heavy drinking . |
| 2 | Yeah , did a lot of people have to go in homes in those days , or is it just like today ? |
| 3 | More than 300 people have fallen from trains in the past 20 years . |
| 4 | People have fallen in love for stranger reasons , but music has obviously played a central role in their marriage . |
| 5 | Three people have gone on trial in connection with the discovery of a multi-million pound drugs factory . |
| 6 | Two people have gone on trial after a raid on a laboratory which carried out experiments on pigs . |
| 7 | More than five million people have registered for part of the government 's remaining stake in British Telecom . |
| 8 | I 'm sorry , I just wanted to make a couple of points in response to erm things that people have said in relation to my opening statement , erm Mr Brook er mentioned the fact that er none of the employe none of the new settlement proposals of which he was aware , erm included an employment element , erm I just wanted to place on record the fact that our suggested reworking of policy H two does provide for an explicit land er amount of land for employment purposes , erm as part of the new settlement location , I wanted to say that because I , I 'm not invited to appear on your employment day , and I do feel that this is an important component of the the H two strategy , and clearly that employment component will be drawn from the Greater York allocation , the second point , Mr Sexton erm I believe said that in his view you could not find a site for a larger new settlement er within the or outside the Greater York er greenbelt , erm which would not result in physical coalescence with the existing villages in the area , now I 'm not sure whether he was referring to any particular size of larger new settlement , but I invite you to look at the er land range at one to fifty thousand er map of the area , and you will see that the area outside the greenbelt is characterized by erm a very rural area with sporadic villages , and my believe is that there are erm sites available within that area which could accommodate a larger new settlement , the planning point is of course the larger the new settlement becomes , I think the less that that the reduced number of sites you will have available to accommodate erm that proposal , because of its scale , and the third aspect I want to comment on Mr Cunnane and Mr Thomas erm said that Barton Willmore had not made a need argument for the new settlement , well if I 'm not mistaken that 's what we spent most of this morning discussing under policy H one , and I do n't erm I do n't wish , and I do n't suppose that I 'd be invited to repeat the comments made by Mr Grigson this morning , I do n't think there 's any need for that , but that establishes in our mind very clearly there is a need for a new settlement in the range of two thousand to two thousand five hundred dwellings , erm in the period up to two thousand and six , and I wo n't say anything more on that . |
| 9 | She reported initial agreement on medical evacuations from the city , where some badly wounded people have lain for months without being able to get proper treatment or artificial limbs . |
| 10 | ‘ People have come to Britain from many lands , ’ he boomed , ‘ and today the country is a melting-pot ! |
| 11 | ‘ Historically , people have looked to Europe as a place to make up the profit margins they had to give away in the States , ’ Apple spokesperson Frank O'Mahoney admitted to me immediately before launching into a lengthy explanation of how computer prices in Europe are now tumbling to less obscene levels . |
| 12 | Even more people have died of overdoses of aspirin than any other drug in the world . |
| 13 | The shipment was greeted with delight by the local community where people have died of starvation during the harsh highland winter . |
| 14 | ( Since UN sanctions against Iraq were imposed , over 4,300 people have died in Iraq from lack of medicines . ) |
| 15 | More than 70 people have died in Strathclyde in the last 15 months as a result of drug-taking . |
| 16 | Over the years one thousand seven hundred people have worked at Harwell on these two reactors . |
| 17 | Over 19,000 people have worked for Delta for more than 10 years and over 11,300 people have been with us for over 20 years . |
| 18 | Many social surveys of older people have focused upon issues concerning social contact and social isolation because of the potency of this image of isolation . |
| 19 | The publication of UPDATE is part of the information dissemination strategy and a number of SCOTVEC staff have spoken to groups of college staff about the ACDP . |
| 20 | WITHOUT wishing to cash in on the latest Royal marital rift it seems right to impart the information that some cartoons depicting the unfortunate pair have gone on sale in their adoptive city . |