Example sentences of "[n mass] have [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both the air force and the army , as well as those who actually served with Leslie , seemed now to presume that the aircraft had come down in the English Channel . |
| 2 | All gliders and light aircraft have to recover satisfactorily with the standard method . |
| 3 | In the centre was Gemioncourt farm which should have been a fortress to hold up the French , but was now empty because the Belgian guns and infantry had fled straight past the farm , thus yielding its strong walls and loopholed barns to the enemy . |
| 4 | ‘ They say the Hidden Folk have come out of the mountains and attacked the Rorims to the south in league with the beasts , ’ the landlord whispered confidentially . |
| 5 | After the fish had settled in for a few days , one that I had thought to be a male showed signs of filling eggs , and developed a bright yellow patch on her belly . |
| 6 | Its overseas staff has risen three-fold in the past five years , to 75 analysts . |
| 7 | The pilot was winched to safety after Saturday 's crash , but the Paramount Studios staff had to stay overnight in the crater . |
| 8 | People had gone up to a house and been knocking on the door waiting for someone to come because the light had come on and they thought there must be somebody in because they switched the light on when they saw me come up the drive , and these are visitors . |
| 9 | Mark Cameron ( 1987 ) felt that the knot symbolized possession by a man , a token of the collective sacred marriage which all young people had to go through as the culmination of their initiation sequence . |
| 10 | It was not just a reason to indulge in nostalgia ; though the tradition was basically the same as it had always been , except that in the past the people had walked further in the processions . |
| 11 | ‘ They seemed convinced a whole lot of people had come up from the big city to show off , to be grandees , which was far from the truth . |
| 12 | Many people had switched on after the announcement that Welles 's Mercury Theatre was doing a play . |
| 13 | ‘ What 's it to thee ? ’ someone shouted , but already a few people had backed away from the horse , moving to a safer distance . |
| 14 | The fact that there are fewer young workers could mean that people have to retire later in the future . |
| 15 | They may not qualify for the names ‘ colonisers ’ or ‘ pioneers ’ , but great numbers of people have gone abroad from the county during this century . |
| 16 | But look a little more deeply and you will see that something else has happened too ; if a number of people have gone down with the cold , does not it mean that a number of people have not gone down with the cold ? |
| 17 | Well , we 'll listen to what people have to say tomorrow on the phone in . |
| 18 | Many times more people have moved out of the big state hospitals over a larger number of years and a great deal more research on outcomes has been done . |
| 19 | More than 4.6m people have contracted out of the state scheme into personal pension plans since their introduction in 1986 . |
| 20 | These people have crawled out of the sewers . |
| 21 | Well , I give a vote that erm , because certainly not everybody 's aware that er , this er Service director is merely a way to get round to payments that different people have opt out of the social chapter . |
| 22 | People have written fondly about The Fifties : |
| 23 | Places differ not simply because their physical environments differ but also because , for a variety of reasons , people have responded differently to the opportunities and constraints that those environments offer . |
| 24 | A thousand people have come here in the last year and another thousand are expected in the next year . |
| 25 | ‘ And six thousand people have come out to the meetings . ’ |
| 26 | I mean , I know that a lot of the calls they get are practical , people have come back from the Gulf with no money , no home , I mean they 've lived there for years and years and years , without the family network sometimes to keep them going , or friends , friends , they 've , they 've lost all of their , and it 's , it 's not easy . |
| 27 | Last year the town missed out , but the borough council , residents and business people have worked together on a new ten-point plan which includes regenerating the town centre by making it fully pedestrianised , building a new shopping development and improving access for disabled people . |
| 28 | Many people have worked hard over the last two decades to develop relationships between education and business — the expertise which this represents needs to be respected and harnessed . |
| 29 | More than 120 people have signed up for the six courses and a regular programme of similar events is now likely to be organised at the Wivenhoe Park campus , near Colchester . |
| 30 | Already 18 people have signed up for the competition and it is hoped it will be a fitting tribute to one of the club 's favourite performers . |