Example sentences of "[n mass] [Wh pn] have [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The same people who had turned a blind eye as they passed Clary in their snooty fashion , would regard this esteemed gentleman with admiration , perceiving Clarence , as a high-class citizen of Chichester . |
| 2 | The researchers looked at a sample of 302 people who had inherited a house . |
| 3 | On Nov. 3 Sendero guerrillas murdered 37 people who had formed a civil defence group in the Andean village of Santo Tomás de Pata . |
| 4 | During a 12 month period our laboratory investigated 10871 people who had had a course of hepatitis B vaccine . |
| 5 | ‘ People who 've lost a Rottweiler often want another adult dog , rather than encourage the puppy market . |
| 6 | There is some professional resistance , in the sense that people who 've done a lot of work on programming get used to certain sorts of languages , and if you make proposals about teaching some new way of dealing with computers , they throw up their hands in horror , and object that this is going to be inefficient , or it 's not going to prepare people adequately for what goes on in industry , or whatever . |
| 7 | We tell people who 've got a tan how healthy they look but , while there 's no doubt the sun 's rays give you a small boost of vitamin D , you get that from day-to-day exposure anyway . |
| 8 | It 's just a matter of er , i I mean all we need to do is , is , is sort out a sort of formal agreement with Elliel that , you know , and how , how the management company or the limited company 's going to sort of manage the place and th then we 'll er got to , you know , we 've got two people who 've got a , a very successful business they 're actually drinks ' suppliers , Morecambe Bay Wines and Spirits er , who are gon na come in and have er they 'll sign the cheque for the rent there and then , I mean it 's er it 's a matter of just th you know , all it is is , is they 're saying well , you know what actually is the formal arrangement ? |
| 9 | Now , that may be very idealistic and it 's obviously not all retired or old people who 've got a lot of wisdom unless you want to tell their stories . |
| 10 | But you 've got to convince everybody , not just me and people like Bridges , people who 've had a scientific training . |
| 11 | ‘ I would n't trust them to people who 've had a year to get ready and still manage to come two hours late . |
| 12 | So many of Hardy 's girls are people who 've had a little bit of education , and who are somehow or other caught between traditional ways and modern ways , and I think one has the feeling that Hardy is more interested in the sociologically transitional status of the people he 's writing about than he is interested in them as people . |
| 13 | We do occasionally get calls from people who 've dialled a number listed in one of the ads only to find that it 's wrong — an old lady in Dunfirmline insisting that she 's definitely not selling a Malmsteen Strat — or perhaps giving the ‘ unobtainable ’ tone on a number which does n't exist . |
| 14 | But I had to get together in one room , the admirals , the intelligence people , the civil servants , all the people who 'd played a critical role in advising her . |
| 15 | The other people who 'd drawn a horse , |
| 16 | We are likely to be attracted by people who have recognised a general and fundamental problem as opposed to a specific one . |
| 17 | As a result we have received tremendous encouragement from the Australian people who have formed a new branch of the charity as a direct result of our photographs . |
| 18 | Yet it is perfectly obvious to anyone who mixes in the real world that they are wicked people who have exercised a choice in favour of the nasty option . |
| 19 | Rather like the children we were discussing earlier in this chapter it is possible to meet elderly people who have achieved a serenity of understanding and/or faith that supports them utterly as they develop the skill of coming towards the end of their life . |
| 20 | Even people who have lived a normal and contented life are likely to see ghosts , sometimes called ‘ crisis ghosts ’ , which appear to the living to warn of some imminent danger . |
| 21 | No further reports have been documented , but possibly people who have seen a replay of the awful scene wish to remain silent not wishing to discuss the macabre subject . |
| 22 | Many category 2 queries , however , are from people who have done a fair amount of ‘ homework ’ , but have been unable to find out all they would like to know , or wish to check that they have made the right interpretation of their reading . |
| 23 | We also know that people who have lost a limb , or had a stroke or heart disease can get back their mobility and their health in a way that would have seemed quite impossible only twenty years ago . |
| 24 | People who have spent a lot of time with horses will have seen most of these emotions in horses at one time or another . |
| 25 | We have , in our company , many highly experienced people who have spent a lifetime in our industry . |
| 26 | These figures take no account of people who have commissioned a registered builder to build their house which would have been zero rated for VAT . |
| 27 | She admires wealth-creators , entrepreneurs , and people who have taken a chance in the market rather than those who work in the public sector . |
| 28 | Those whose native language is a tone language should be aware of the considerable linguistic importance of tone in such languages ; often it is extremely difficult for people who have spoken a tone language all their life to learn to observe their own use of tone objectively . |
| 29 | I am leaving behind my people who have fought a 14-year resistance ; that would not be accepted . |
| 30 | Often these are people who have had a fairly ‘ secret ’ sort of relationship , such as a lover or a homosexual partner , and who therefore feel they have to bear their loss alone , because no one knows that they have sustained one . |