Example sentences of "[n mass] have [vb pp] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Elaborate analysis of the data has tried to unite these discrepant theories . |
| 2 | A short section of archive film shows the Bell X–1 and Chuck Yeager 's successful mission to fly faster than sound , a clip from the old British black-and-white film The Sound Barrier ( remember that one ? ) , and some well-produced graphics describing the differences between the Boeing 707 and the Concorde , and the problems of high speed operation the latter aircraft has had to overcome . |
| 3 | Then Partridge had tried to wrestle with him , claiming later that he was only trying to " restrain " him . |
| 4 | The aircraft had come to rest inverted in a ploughed potato field with the sail and engine on top of the pilot . |
| 5 | ‘ … and three of our aircraft have failed to return , ’ the man who read the news would intone on the midday bulletin . |
| 6 | In Hong Kong , where the complicated city-scape tends to disperse the signal , GSM has managed to improve things by a mere 50% . |
| 7 | Lotus 1-2-3 release 3.4 , on the other hand , promises a more graphical outlook than its predecessors for the DOS user , whilst maintaining the power features that folk have come to expect . |
| 8 | Over the last couple of months many folk have requested to know more about the BMS World Mission Link ( WML ) and our link partners the Collict and Meikle families . |
| 9 | Statistics have come to convey three rather different ideas : |
| 10 | The report , The Lost Land , says that Department of the Environment ( DoE ) statistics have failed to record the loss of 690 square miles of countryside , an area larger than Greater London , since the second world war . |
| 11 | ‘ Cynics say — cynics have already said — when your preaching is done , when your lofty words have gone with the wind , when the media has departed to tell another tale , the world will forget . |
| 12 | Bond Media has proposed to repay Mr Packer a reduced amount from a renegotiated bank facility or from asset sales with a rollover of the outstanding sum . |
| 13 | The emphasis is very much on continuity rather than radical reform , and despite the daunting complexity and forbidding pervasiveness of the law regulating every aspect of welfare in German social work practice , this Act also represents an acknowledgement that German social work practice particularly in relation to children and young people has managed to develop highly creatively and run ahead of the bureaucracy . |
| 14 | I understand that even the The People has started to produce certain pages in Urdu . |
| 15 | Ronnie Sales has helped to brighten up the lives of residents living on the Cosy Estate in Sunderland — in more ways than one ! |
| 16 | By the autumn of 1959 , the Chiefs of Staff had begun to doubt its viability as an effective deterrent . |
| 17 | Mr Kemp said that since the announcement to close the homes in Durham City , Station Town , Chester-le-Street , Stanley , Newton Aycliffe , Darlington and Bishop Auckland , staff had continued to work hard . |
| 18 | Some staff had chosen to go because voluntary redundancy terms were attractive . |
| 19 | Staff had forgotten to add the word ‘ imitation ’ to the description of the £3.50 ear-rings . |
| 20 | On making a very despondent journey home my wife greeted me at the door with the astounding statement that the property had been found and handed into a branch of a building society and the member of the staff had telephoned to inform my wife that it was there to collect . |
| 21 | Letters were lost , and time and again Charles would discover that his staff had failed to show him a document or letter , or turned down an invitation on his behalf without ever showing it to him . |
| 22 | in addition , the sole inhabitant — and old T-Barb — had killed everything the staff had tried to keep with it . |
| 23 | A murder inquiry was launched yesterday after Denise 's body was discovered at about 11.30am after staff had arrived to find the pub locked up . |
| 24 | Denise 's body was discovered in the lounge above the pub at about 11.30am yesterday after staff had arrived to find the pub locked . |
| 25 | A grouping of Szekler people had intended to use the occasion of the commemoration of the 1848 Szekler People 's Assembly to hold a referendum on Oct. 19 in Harghita and Covasna on their autonomy . |
| 26 | I was already enough of an expert to recognise it — people had begun to give me books about birds of prey , so the first time I heard this sorrowful sound I searched through my books until I found out what it was . |
| 27 | I know one or two people had begun to despair of me ever getting better at one point but , basically , I have been blessed with a strong constitution . |
| 28 | Such dramatic attempts at direct action were not the only ways in which people had begun to protest at the development of nuclear power . |
| 29 | People had begun to file out from the pews . |
| 30 | ‘ People had begun to look on the Lithuanian party as the servile agent , even the secret agent , of the Soviet Communist Party . ’ |