Example sentences of "[n mass] [verb] have a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Magnetic and optical media appear to have a shorter life . |
| 3 | So the missionary had to try to take the place of the doctor and the nurse , and had to keep with him a stock of basic medicines — iodine , castor oil , Epsom salts , santonin ( for worms ) , quinine tablets for malaria , and a plentiful supply of aspirin in which the village people seemed to have a great faith . |
| 4 | Yet so many people seem to have a mental block on this point , rushing for those little bottles when common sense should tell them that they can not possibly have some dreadful plague as they have n't introduced any new fish for over a year ! |
| 5 | Derbyshire Assistant Chief Constable Don Dovaston said : ‘ People seem to have a total disregard for the safety of themselves and other road users . |
| 6 | Perhaps it is the fault of the world in which we live , but people seem to have a great fear of failing , forgetting that failing at something does not mean that one is a ‘ failure ’ at life . |
| 7 | Some people seem to have a natural knack for making money , while others have a marvellous ability for getting along without it . |
| 8 | Some people like to have a sharp canter to warm up for the steeplechase , I prefer not to . |
| 9 | Some people like to have a clear set of rules to live and to work by , while others condemn these same rules as ‘ bureaucratic ’ , restrictive and stifling . |
| 10 | The American experience makes it reasonable to expect that , as the effects of the new advertisements and quotations regulations take hold , awareness of typical APRs will slowly climb so that in maybe seven or eight years ' time most people do have a reasonable idea of them . |
| 11 | And of course , some people do have a large block of time do n't they , because you know , they , they have very severe illnesses , and it builds up . |
| 12 | In practice , all media do have a limited life . |
| 13 | Public exposure on television and the continual attention of the rest of the media did have a marked effect on Hannah Hauxwell . |
| 14 | 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 ? |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | A GROUP of MPs have had a narrow escape from gunfire in Bosnia . |
| 17 | The mink has had a chequered relationship with us , but we must remember that the changes are of our own making . |