Example sentences of "[n mass] have have [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 A chapter on homebuilt organisations around the world is instructive , not least to learn that whilst amateur-built aircraft have had official blessing ( or at least the blind eye treatment ) in many Eastern Bloc countries for a decade or more , getting approval to fly a homebuilt in Italy and Germany has been a hard-won struggle against obstinate bureaucracy .
2 It showed a meeting Jan Mach had had that morning .
3 And there was not a lot unless the people had had three bits of beef .
4 Our main survey ( Appendix 1 , text preceding Table 24 ) showed that very few people had had any difficulty getting the type of credit they had decided on .
5 Our Mortgage Advisors have helped with more house-hunts than most people have had hot dinners — so their brains are well worth picking .
6 If other people have had other experiences , if if they share erm , er Nelly 's er belief there that there is nothing that can be done about it ? 's the number to dial and we 'll have some more calls in a moment .
7 The Jewish people have had continuous relationship with the Holy Land for nearly 4,000 years .
8 erm I think two people have had tremendous problems and again must have been going up and down St Aldate 's , because they were very busy officials , was Edward Hyde , who later became Earl of Clarendon and wrote his story of the war , again of course from the Royalist point of view , and his great friend , Lord Falkland , who was Secretary of State for the King , and became so upset and worried by the rash policies of the Queen 's party and the general atmosphere of intrigue , and by the war itself , that he does seem to have more or less committed suicide at the battle of Newbury , by riding ahead of his troops into the enemy .
9 I am told that other people have had similar experiences but are not prepared to enlarge on their stories ; perhaps they had seen a ghost of a long-gone railwayman who had worked in the area years ago and had come back to his earthly place of employment !
10 I wonder what other people make of that , if , er if other people have had similar experiences ?
11 Some people have had great pleasure and good practice from the rhythm of songs which were familiar before losing their hearing — such old friends as ‘ Auld Lang Syne ’ , ‘ God Save the Queen ’ and the Wedding March .
12 erm we have a welfare state , which erm ensures that very few people are living at absolute poverty — you do have shoes to wear , you do have some sort of food to eat — which was n't necessarily the case in the nineteen thirties — and people have had different education and training , their lives are very different .
13 Different people have had different views on what this single deficit might be : we will mention three such views .
14 R&D is alive and well in ICL today , but electronic media have had little impact on the operational information produced .
15 Such a redeployment has not , however , been easy , as few of the former colleges of education staff have had much experience of further education and were not fully turned to its needs , particularly in respect of curriculum development .
16 Few of the trained staff have had any guidance in how to teach , and this may produce a feeling of inadequacy .
17 But sometimes — usually — introduced species have had disastrous effects on the native flora and fauna , and sometimes on the human inhabitants .
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