Example sentences of "[det] [n mass] have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know that some folk have had cases from America which have not been too well done , and , in fact , felt that they were over-embalmed and no make-up . |
| 2 | WHILE some folk have won their currency gambles , many more are n't so lucky . |
| 3 | Offenders who are mentally disordered suffer the stigma of being labelled as both ‘ mad ’ and ‘ bad ’ , although for centuries it has been recognized that some people have diminished responsibility for their actions as a result of mental abnormality and that punishment and retribution , usually demanded by society of someone who has committed a crime , should be dispensed with in favour of providing humane care and treatment . |
| 4 | Some people have expressed concern that the merging of the two Germanies could pose a serious threat to the economic and political stability of Europe . |
| 5 | ‘ Some people have wanted to sack me almost as long as I remember , ’ he said . |
| 6 | And happens some people have prepared particular presentations , you will see after one is on , and one of political insubordination , one on the process of learning together . |
| 7 | Some people have likened it to a teapot , though I have never been able to make out why . |
| 8 | Mr Collin said some people have threatened to withhold the £20 surcharge in protest only to find themselves facing the threat of court action . |
| 9 | However , some people have argued that , since hens continue to lay eggs under these conditions , there is no evidence that they need more space . |
| 10 | The poem St Erkenwald is a variant of that tale ; some people have argued it is by the author of Sir Gawain and Pearl . |
| 11 | ‘ I would never set out in life to assassinate anybody , but some people have made sure that the mud will stick to me . ’ |
| 12 | The idea that people can be sensitive to natural gas is a contentious one , but it is claimed that some people have made dramatic recoveries after removing the gas supply from their house . |
| 13 | Some people have made a god of it . |
| 14 | Er but if anybody 's got TESSAs running at ma matur er er er retirement , I 'll inevitably keep them going , cos they 're normally half way through now , some people have made three payments with TESSA , there 's only another two payments to make , that 's only another eighteen hundred and then six hundred in the final year . |
| 15 | Staying with the familiar may well result in spiritual stagnation , particularly if this is because some people have become inflexible . |
| 16 | Italy may be what some people have called a geographical expression , but England certainly is not , and we have 1,000 years of history to prove it . |
| 17 | As some people have pointed out , in the mid-eighties that time would n't have been much to write home about . ’ |
| 18 | Some people have felt that this borrowing from Dorothy and others shows a certain egotism on Wordsworth 's part , but it was his method as an artist to absorb things into himself , and think of them for a long period before writing them down ; nor is it necessary to maintain , in any case , that the ‘ I ’ of a Wordsworth poem is necessarily the poet himself — it may stand as a universal shorthand symbol with which the reader can equally identify . |
| 19 | ‘ But I know some people have felt so miserable they have seen their doctor for some medicine and have been told that the fumes are the likely cause of their symptoms . |
| 20 | This is a form that we asked you to complete and send down , and some people have done it , and some people hadn't. so should get er , a bonus point for that . |
| 21 | Well I do n't think they do because we 've got here some people who have done the er some people have done an hotel and I think it would be best to explain the whole thing to them |
| 22 | But we do know that some people have done within Tarmac . |
| 23 | Indeed , some people have gone so far as to elevate these restrictions on the initial conditions and the parameters to the status of a principle , the anthropic principle , which can be paraphrased as , ‘ Things are as they are because we are . |
| 24 | Some people have said that if they joined the t&g or ACTT the strike would have been over much quicker . |
| 25 | And we 've we 've proven that er some people have said , Oh well he wo n't come on he ca n't either afford it or he does n't want to . |
| 26 | Some people have said that the N H S should be financed from the tax payer 's money and not through what is , it is n't quite a charity , but basically other means . |
| 27 | Some people have asked me , Kelly , you 've got a ! |
| 28 | Some people have mounted a coup d'état . |
| 29 | Some people have noticed their similarity to material distributed by Mr Round . |
| 30 | Some people have struck lucky this way , but not me . |