Example sentences of "[n mass] have [be] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A spokesman said : ‘ We have no reason to believe the aircraft has been causing a problem . |
| 2 | Control Data had been mulling the use of other RISCs , notably the Hewlett-Packard Co PA chip , but these machinations were , as the company admitted ( UX No 384 ) , a bluff to bring Silicon Graphics and NEC to the table . |
| 3 | Well Newcastle folk have been waiting a long time , and we all badly want to give them something to celebrate . ’ |
| 4 | NORTHERN Ireland butchers have been given the good news they can compete in a major English contest to find the country 's top sausage-maker . |
| 5 | But the deal has even greater cultural significance , as The Shoe People has been given the official stamp of approval to become a major influence on millions of Russian children . |
| 6 | A Quiche Indian woman from Guatemala who has achieved worldwide recognition by speaking out against the oppression of her people has been awarded the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize . |
| 7 | ‘ The longest serving member of staff has been offered the one post that we will be able to fund from the Scottish Education Department for next session and currently we are waiting for a decision on that matter . ’ |
| 8 | For months Weatherbury people had been discussing the party that Mr Boldwood was going to give just before Christmas , and now the day had finally arrived . |
| 9 | Associated Press reported on Nov. 29 that only 100 people had accepted the amnesty offer , while 150 more people had been arrested the previous week , adding to thousands of FIS supporters detained without trial . |
| 10 | Even in the best years for agriculture , people have been leaving the land because the trend is towards larger units , maximising productivity and getting the best out of the work force . |
| 11 | A few lucky people have been realising a lifetime 's dream — mounting the footplate of the world 's most famous engine . |
| 12 | The lives of countless millions of people have been made a misery through the conflicts arising from prejudice . |
| 13 | ‘ People have been buying the Mirror as a souvenir , snapping up five or six at a time . ’ |
| 14 | Clearly , while an increasing proportion of the population have been buying their houses , working-class people have been buying the cheapest housing on the market . |
| 15 | The vast majority of obese people have been eating a normal unhealthy diet , and changing is a matter of education and attitude as well as trial and error . |
| 16 | Thanks to specially-adapted boats many new people have been catching the sailing bug . |
| 17 | Well a lot of people have been called the Antichrist have n't they ? |
| 18 | Two million people have been to see the film Jurassic Park since it was released in British cinemas just five days ago . |
| 19 | Recently some people have been trying a different approach , seeing if they can change the nature of the atoms such that fusion can occur at a useful rate even at room temperature . |
| 20 | ‘ People have been given every chance to make payment in full or to make an arrangement to pay , but it seems as though there is a hard core who do not want to pay . ’ |
| 21 | Millions of people have been given the same chance to own a real share in the nation 's assets . |
| 22 | And our other project will probably be in Malaysia , where we 're hoping to be able to fund lawyers to go and visit the indigenous tribes , and educate them about the Malaysian process of law , because at the moment I 'm sure you 'll know that various indigenous people have been blockading the logging roads that go on to their demarcated territory . |
| 23 | Surely it 's true that everyone who changes his or her life because of crime — from those afraid to go out at night to those afraid to go into the parks they pay for — surely these people have been denied a basic civil right . |
| 24 | Others tell us Apple 's Enterprise people have been shopping the thing around for a while apparently to further insinuate the Mac into the corporate environment . |
| 25 | I 'm concerned for the people who are waiting for housing , I 'm concerned about young people who are living in i i in ten er , on the tenth floor of high rise flats , these people have been waiting a very very long time and each time er , the er these they are , the properties are er , de-counted they are going further and further behind . |
| 26 | Thanks to our parliamentary system and the stability that it has given us , the British people have been spared the horrors of revolution , civil war and invasion for more than 300 years . |
| 27 | Several hundred people have been attending a nightly candle-lit vigil , and there has been one other small protest . |
| 28 | People have been studying the behavioural functions of the brain for something less than two centuries and , for much of that time , their efforts have been hampered by a combination of inevitable ignorance and adherence to implausible psychological theories . |
| 29 | Staff have been given a table on which to record assessed needs . |
| 30 | Staff have been given the effective reward of being valued through a positive acknowledgement of their competence providing a greater sense of identity and improving self-esteem . |