Example sentences of "[n mass] have the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 2D has the same colour quality and light output as an ordinary 100 W light bulb but it uses only 21 W of electricity ( 16 W for the lamp and 5 W for the control gear ) . |
| 2 | Some labyrinth fish have the same habit , as do the marine catfish , Arius , often called Shark Cats . |
| 3 | by no means has the last word been written on the quantum Hall effect . |
| 4 | There were still people who saw the life of a modern university as ‘ some community of pure scholar-students pursuing their work regardless of its bearing on their subsequent careers , and of staff having the sole duty of inculcating appropriate habits of thought and advancing knowledge with no practical application ’ . |
| 5 | This appeal to democracy , however , confuses two issues : Should the people have the final say , through democratically elected institutions , about how judges decide cases ? |
| 6 | Table 15 indicates that 45% of authorities experienced an increase in allocated money , while 31% had the same amount and 11% had less for 1984/5 . |
| 7 | Tramways and Metropolitan Railway staff had the best conditions of all . |
| 8 | We were concerned with the start-up and whether people had the right idea about business studies … |
| 9 | It would be valuable , if people had the spare cash , to line damp rooms with some form of insulating material before wallpapering them : for want of that small capital outlay , they may spend more on frequent re-decoration than they otherwise might have saved : but since the outlay in papering a room three times a year is piecemeal , it is possible , while root-and-branch solutions to the problem are not . |
| 10 | All 14 normal people had the non-mutant version of the gene , whereas the cancer patient had the mutant gene not only in his tumour cells , but in his normal bladder and blood cells as well . |
| 11 | The declaration proclaimed further that the Russian people had the sole right to own , utilize and dispose of Russia 's natural wealth ; that the RSFSR had the right to form its own diplomatic links with other Soviet republics and foreign states ; and that it had the right to participate in the exercise of powers which it had voluntarily passed to the Union . |
| 12 | Only through the sacrifice of a distant people had the Old Ones been vanquished , and order been returned to the universe . |
| 13 | After the performance , most people had the same idea : make their way from their actually more but socially less exalted levels of red and orange and purple down to the pink VIP level . |
| 14 | The following points were all made individually — of the seven who responded to this section , no two people had the same view on what was least useful . |
| 15 | All that is required is that the people have the necessary desire and will to bring change about . |
| 16 | Indeed , we often find that older workers themselves believe that younger people have the greater right to a job , particularly in times of high unemployment . |
| 17 | Make sure that all the local news people have the appropriate office and home phone numbers . |
| 18 | It is not something that I have and you do not , or vice versa ; nor is it a commodity with which some people have the good fortune to be more generously endowed than others . |
| 19 | Old people have the highest incidence of dementia , a condition with over 100 distinct causes . |
| 20 | With hindsight , I now feel that i should have put more effort into explaining these two very difficult concepts , particularly imaginary time , which seems to be the thing in the book with which people have the most trouble . |
| 21 | Opposition Members believe that the British people have the basic talents and abilities which , with investment in their skills and a programme committed to training , will allow us to map out a better , more secure and more dignified future not for only those already in work but for the many people who will join the labour market in years to come . |
| 22 | It made me realise that other people have the same problems and it helped enormously to share with the other mums . |
| 23 | It 's been enormously successful because we 've done it on an activist basis so that activists have met one another , all those prejudices and all those stereotypes have immediately vanished as soon as people have stayed in one another 's homes and realized that people have the same problems , they have the same , they have the same problems and the same difficulty er as difficulties as we do . |
| 24 | In the present circumstances , when most people have the same beliefs about killing we do , that fact is not our dominant reason for acting as we think we should . |
| 25 | ‘ These people have the same rights as any private citizen but the demonstrations by Fr. |
| 26 | Paul and other wheelchair users want the Government to make sure disabled people have the same access as the able bodied . |
| 27 | Paul and other wheelchair users want the Government to make sure disabled people have the same access as the able bodied . |
| 28 | Paul and other wheelchair users want the Government to make sure disabled people have the same access as the able bodied . |
| 29 | ‘ We live in an age in which , in my mind , film-makers and people in the media have the same responsibility that one befell journalists and novelists , because , uh , no-one reads anymore . |
| 30 | How do you ensure , for example , that your staff have the high-level teaching experience which comes with years of practice and training , and also up-to-date and personal familiarity with ‘ the trade ’ at a level which industrial and commercial representatives will find credible ? |