Example sentences of "they have [verb] a [n mass] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 've devised a series of guidelines that will enable the beauty spot to stay both commercially viable and beautiful . |
| 2 | They 've got a series of almost like ethnic murals that somebody 's done all along . |
| 3 | To reach Madame de Rochefort 's suite , they had to traverse a series of other rooms , most of them shuttered to exclude the sun . |
| 4 | But first they had to play a series of odd games , working out the rules for each one in turn , playing each one to a conclusion , without cheating or colluding . |
| 5 | Although all felt that they had found a means of living which enabled them to be open to this reality , they nevertheless say that it was experienced as a gift and a grace beyond anything that could be achieved by conscious effort . |
| 6 | The DHAC was a coalition of radicals from the local Republican Clubs and the left wing of the NILP ; they had organised a series of imaginative protests in Derry to draw attention to bad conditions and discrimination in housing . |
| 7 | They have developed a means of cutting down the rate at which water passes through their systems and out through pores ( stomata ) in their leaves . |