Example sentences of "[n mass] have [vb pp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Interest rates are not going to fall much more , and prices for properties under £100,000 have reached rock bottom . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 12% have had in-patient stays in the first 9 months in the community . |
| 4 | But these muddy-water fish have developed banks of modified muscle tissue that generate electrical charges on a much greater scale . |
| 5 | The fish have modified muscles in their flanks which generate and transmit these electric discharges . |
| 6 | Not surprisingly , 68% of owner-directors said that their financial or material rewards had not increased over the past 12 months ; 65% now work over 50 hours a week , 38% have considered disposal over the past year , and over half have injected extra funds . |
| 7 | Few people understand exactly what they are and what they can do and quite a few people have mistaken impressions from the media . |
| 8 | Many people have condemned Herod as a cruel man and certainly he showed a cruel streak , especially towards his own family . |
| 9 | There is some evidence that salt is bad and many people have cut salt intake in recent years . |
| 10 | Yet people have tinned soup do n't they ? |
| 11 | Doctors have been sent a letter by Sandoz pointing out that 4 people have suffered liver failure after taking Lamisil . |
| 12 | Those people have suffered torture and all sorts of indignities and have missing family members . |
| 13 | So erm the first paragraph there deals with erm how people have defined groups . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Local people have expressed fears about the speed motorists travel through the village . |
| 16 | The depth of Nizan 's commitment to the Soviet Union was similarly visible a few months later when he described the great steps made by the mass of the Soviet people in terms of cultural development : When you have seen young workers in Moscow or Tashkent … speaking passionately of Gogol or Gorky , you realise that the Soviet people have gained admission to the high culture that was previously a privilege of the bourgeoisie … |
| 17 | Unemployment has fallen in the county , although not as fast as in other parts of the region , but it does appear that some 800 previously unemployed Kent people have gained work as a direct result of the Tunnel . |
| 18 | But the City , already nervous about the hefty price Thorn paid for Virgin just before the industry down turn — and by talk that 160 people have quit Virgin since the sale — marked Thorn 's shares another 9p lower to 808p . |
| 19 | People have sought gold in our islands for at least two thousand years , and I do n't believe any significant pannable sites are left to be discovered . |
| 20 | Indeed , Irish people have sought survival elsewhere , and people often left this country because they did not wish to stay in the slums of London , Birmingham or Liverpool but sought a better life in Australia or elsewhere . |
| 21 | Its spokes people have sought refuge from inter-ethnic conflict in some of the more anachronistic formulae of socialist class politics . |
| 22 | People have seen things ! |
| 23 | Probably most people have seen displays of Prestel , even in television rental shops , which is a system running through the Post Office network accessing large amounts of mainly factual information — things like telephone directories , like timetables , like oh a lot of business information . |
| 24 | Probably most people have seen displays of Prestel , even in television rental shops , which is a system running through the Post Office network , accessing large amounts of mainly factual information — things like telephone directories , like timetables , like oh a lot of business information . |
| 25 | Many people have seen Charlotte waiting for Albert , or her ghost who refuses to leave this station . |
| 26 | The market is less active , people are less likely to take risks with things they know nothing of in the hope of growth so perhaps the recession has affected the USM more severely than people have given credit for . |
| 27 | An obvious ( if possibly fatuous ) answer is that , rather than wasting money on potentially unwanted presents , people have given cash , which the recipients have rushed out to spend on reduced-price merchandise . |
| 28 | Many people have studied languages in the past in school or elsewhere and this knowledge can be built upon . |
| 29 | While not many people have adopted Plato 's particular grounds for opposing democracy , the issue of expertise as opposed to supposed popular ignorance or incompetence has remained a central one in the debate about democracy . |
| 30 | 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 . |