Example sentences of "[n mass] [noun] have [vb pp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a recent article , C. Fleay and M.L. Sanders have supported Orwell 's general stance attacking the Labour Party policy on the Spanish Civil War as being as ‘ torpid and as ambivalent ’ as that of the National Government . |
| 2 | Two fish factories have secured Shetland Islands Council backing for refurbishment to European standards . |
| 3 | Traditionally , hill sheep farmers have sold store lambs to lowland farmers for fattening and it is the latter who should benefit from the variable premia . |
| 4 | Both the IPA and the Association of Media Independents have offered research evidence as ammunition for marketing directors pressed to justify their expenditure , which suggests that in the past marketing directors have defended advertising without evidence of its worth . |
| 5 | While problems of partiality and bias in news-reporting are , rightly , matters of concern , various issues that have attracted Western media attention have excited public opinion in the United States and Europe to the extent that governments have been obliged to respond . |
| 6 | However , recent spacecraft voyages have dissuaded astronomers from being too ready to categorize objects as satellites , asteroids , comets or even failed suns ; or to neatly itemize inter-planetary debris , with planets being bigger than moons , asteroids bigger than meteors , and so on . |
| 7 | Privately , the museum staff members have dismissed Beck as a troublemaker and crank . |
| 8 | Media students have made broadcast history by launching their own local radio station . |
| 9 | Indeed , because of the fluctuation in oil prices under the effects of market forces , some staff redundancies have affected geologists and geophysicists , industrially and in government employment . |
| 10 | Spacecraft missions have yielded pictures with up to 500 times the resolution obtained from the Earth . |
| 11 | Since the early days of HNV baits , however , when relatively few anglers were using them , the popularity of carp fishing and the massive increase in carp waters have rendered pre-baiting with HNV baits redundant . |