Example sentences of "people have [vb pp] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fortunately , the relations between the American and the British peoples have improved a great deal since then . |
| 2 | Detectives waiting to question Pringle about the siege and shooting of two other people have mounted a constant vigil at his hospital bedside . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Concurrent with the growth of this car-based retailing , many people have observed a steady decline in traditional forms of town-centre retailing . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Ordinary people have lost a considerable amount of confidence in the authorities . |
| 9 | Ordinary people have lost a considerable amount of confidence in the authorities . |
| 10 | 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 ? |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The plain fact of Christian experience is that many people have held a strong theology of assurance but have known no assurance themselves . |
| 13 | We see an awful lot of people have got a tremendous investment in traditional character cell terminals and by a character cell terminal I mean a dumb terminal of twenty four lines of eighty characters . |