Example sentences of "[n mass] have [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | FORMER international referee Pat Partridge has assembled an impressive list of sporting personalities for Richmond Golf Club 's centenary competition today . |
| 2 | It seems unbelievable that this particular aircraft has graced the British and European airshow scene for a whole decade , during which time the warbird movement in Europe has quite literally ‘ taken-off ’ . |
| 3 | Examination of the wreckage and the accident site showed that the landing gear of the aircraft had struck the upper parts of two 7–8 foot high greenhouses situated near the rear wall of a house in Cranfield village . |
| 4 | The aircraft had won the unofficial award of ‘ best presented aircraft ’ by display director David Henchie . |
| 5 | As the modified aircraft had left the Long Beach and Oxnard facilities , they were test flown and ferried to Marine Corps Air Station El Toro in Orange County . |
| 6 | Since then the assumptions underpinning , and the meanings attributed to , census data have changed a good deal . |
| 7 | 3M has launched a hazardous spill response kit for use with bench-top or floor spills . |
| 8 | To give more effective stripping , 3M has designed a special Stripping Tool which , unlike wire wool , will not stain wood with rust spots , while also speeding up stripping on flat surfaces . |
| 9 | And the only record that we have in scripture of any evidence of folk having received the Holy Spirit was that they spoke with other tongues . |
| 10 | I had invited any of the hospital staff who had cared to come , and my ‘ Dawes Road ’ friend Miss Dorrie Pierce told me that church folk had organized a little wedding tea , and my husband-to-be had ordered and paid for a wedding cake . |
| 11 | More recently , northern folk have seized a greater share in responsibility for their own affairs ; they seek to take advantage of southern benefits , while at the same time maintaining their northern identity . |
| 12 | The joint Harrier venture with the US Marine Corps has proved an outstanding exception , though it has not been without its problems . |
| 13 | In reality no fish has to eat a vast amount of food , though luckily for us some are right pigs ! |
| 14 | And the fact that a package trip can be snapped up for about £600 has put the exotic destination within the reach of many Britons . |
| 15 | Of the 195 members of the Paris Academy of Sciences to be honored with an official eulogy before the Revolution of 1789 , at least twenty percent had received a Jesuit education . |
| 16 | 5 Corps had made a consequential agreement with Yugoslav Fourth Army that " any formation wrongly surrendered will be returned to Tito " . |
| 17 | By the middle of the Devonian the lobe-finned fish had acquired a suitable set of bones and muscles , and a stumpy fin arrangement that could easily be adapted to a four-footed locomotion . |
| 18 | Many fish have found a neat solution to this problem . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The fish have bred a few times but each time the fry have died . |
| 22 | The first was on the local islet of Likangloe , where the once abundant population of wild goats had recently been massively reduced in inverse proportion to that of the snakes which ate them , and where the resident family of fisherfolk had lost a sixteen-year-old daughter to a python only the year before . |
| 23 | Some swine had bashed the offside rear three-quarter in a very clumsy attempt to park behind me . |
| 24 | The townspeople had learned the hard way that curiosity killed the cat — you stayed indoors if there was trouble . |
| 25 | Since 1979 , the Ministry of Public Health and Social Welfare statistics have shown a miraculous improvement after decades of progressive deterioration . |
| 26 | Heraeus has launched a new range of modular temperature and climatic cabinets . |
| 27 | The media has played a key role in presenting the Arab people as somewhat ‘ different ’ . |
| 28 | To reproduce them by traditional means has required a special camera which can reduce the photograph to the required size and , at the same time , convert it into a pattern of dots — a process called halftone screening . |
| 29 | Trading standards officer say the recent growth in car boot sales has provided a perfect outlet for the computer pirates . |
| 30 | Trading standards officer say the recent growth in car boot sales has provided a perfect outlet for the computer pirates . |