Example sentences of "[n mass] have [verb] [art] [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 | Many fish have found a neat solution to this problem . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Since 1979 , the Ministry of Public Health and Social Welfare statistics have shown a miraculous improvement after decades of progressive deterioration . |
| 6 | Detectives waiting to question Pringle about the siege and shooting of two other people have mounted a constant vigil at his hospital bedside . |
| 7 | And in this place the people have given the precious rain a name . |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Over a period of three hundred years , black people have achieved a growing presence in sport in Britain yet it seems pathetic that we have no account for it apart from reference to the mysterious attribute called natural ability . |
| 11 | This year she reported further progress : 100 people have so far registered to take an NVQ ; 18 people have achieved a full qualification or certificates in units ; and there were 92 trained NVQ assessors . |
| 12 | Personal versions of the recipients of Lyn Muir 's shelf people have become the fashionable gifts , especially in the USA . |
| 13 | But people have to choose a particular undertaker to handle the arrangements . |
| 14 | ‘ People have to spend a long time with robot animals first . |
| 15 | The same people who kill gypsies in Romania , burn Africans in Italy , beat up Turks in Germany , rape Indians in England , knife Algerians and bomb Jews in France ( not to mention the abundant discrimination to which ethnic minorities , women and homosexuals are prey in most countries ) those same people have pointed a virtuous finger at the USA , with marches and demonstrations to salve their consciences of any hint of collusion with those in power . |
| 16 | Concurrent with the growth of this car-based retailing , many people have observed a steady decline in traditional forms of town-centre retailing . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Italy may be what some people have called a geographical expression , but England certainly is not , and we have 1,000 years of history to prove it . |
| 19 | Ordinary people have lost a considerable amount of confidence in the authorities . |
| 20 | Ordinary people have lost a considerable amount of confidence in the authorities . |
| 21 | While we have to accept that some people have had a good go at blowing up the present inhabitant , would it not be simpler for her to emulate a previous incumbent and move up the road to Admiralty House ? |
| 22 | He believes that older people have had a raw deal , and through his writing he hopes to show where things have gone wrong and how more positive attitudes could be developed . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Unfortunately , most elderly people have to suffer a considerable drop in their income after retirement , and careful planning and budgeting is required to maintain a reasonable standard of living . |
| 25 | it do n't open till all the people have used the short gallops . |
| 26 | The plain fact of Christian experience is that many people have held a strong theology of assurance but have known no assurance themselves . |
| 27 | ‘ 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 . |
| 28 | Lives have been ruined because people have read the wrong books or looked at the wrong pictures . |
| 29 | The United Nations has reported that thousands of people have fled the Moslem enclave of Zepa following Serb shelling . |
| 30 | 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 . |