Example sentences of "[n mass] who have [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A thin , stoop-shouldered Frenchman wearing a pince-nez who had been watching and listening from the curbside , stepped into the road suddenly and leaned close enough to Chuck for the American boy to smell the garlic on his breath . |
| 2 | The record company folk who have been talking Gulf and eating her sarnies leave and Susanna draws up a chair , sits on it cross-legged and starts to play with her hair , twisting it and knitting it . |
| 3 | Time and again I have met folk who have been warmed by the Spirit to perceive the beauty of Christ in the life of a group of believers or in the story of the New Testament , and have come to faith that way . |
| 4 | Then add the 100% who have been babies . |
| 5 | Whether it 's you or one of your kith and kin who 's been too clever for their own good you can bet your bottom dollar it 'll end in tears . |
| 6 | One night , in the depths of winter , Thorwall demanded Glam go outside to settle the livestock who had been frightened by a WRAITH , or ‘ walker after death ’ . |
| 7 | He gazed at the women , and the small group of people who had been in the tent when the councillor actually collapsed . |
| 8 | People who had been out together at Castle Menzies , then on down to the Reel of Ballechin , conversed steadily , opening up their private problems to each other with a freedom well beyond the usual . |
| 9 | Before it left , the UN mission compiled information on 1,100 people who had been detained , were alleged to have been detained or who were said to be missing , back to 1977 . |
| 10 | So in two years flat , after riding on the crest of a wave , people who had been cock of the walk in ICI suddenly found themselves at the bottom of the league . |
| 11 | He had watched the effect that team spirit had had on the young people who had been on Operation Drake . |
| 12 | He clearly had friends in high places , as he was able to take on prominent people who had been purged after 1968 and even some who had suffered after the takeover of 1948 . |
| 13 | Tenants ' association club on the Sparrow Farm estate … it is alleged that people who had been drinking at the club attacked the family in the off-licence opposite PHOTOGRAPHS : KENNETH SAUNDERS Bitter questions of racial violence Ramesh K and his family were hounded out of their Feltham off-licence by 18 months of abuse and attacks , during which time they became pawns in a battle between the local council , the police and two rival race relations bodies . |
| 14 | On several occasions , people who had been drinking in the Sparrow Farm tenants ' association club opposite the shop left the club and attacked the Ks , both inside the off-licence and , sometimes , as they left after closing for the night . |
| 15 | Twenty youths were killed running to help two people who had been crushed by armoured vehicles on Student Square , said the agency . |
| 16 | during the break , after we had done this segment of the film and had gone into the canteen for lunch , all the people who had been working on the film were whistling the song . |
| 17 | In the recent Democratic primary for governor in Texas , one candidate , Mr Mark White , put out a gruesome commercial in which he strode triumphantly past photographs of the people who had been executed while he was governor in 1983–87 . |
| 18 | John Browne , who is standing as a rebel Tory candidate against the official Conservative in Winchester , rejected yesterday a plea by five people who had been supporting him that he should stand down . |
| 19 | People who had been living in the shadow of the rock breathed easily again . |
| 20 | Highlander was a linkpin in the whole operation , bringing together many people who had been involved in land issues over a large geographical area , schools , community groups , local politicians , academics , and interested individuals Workshops at Highlander laid the foundations for articulation of the problems and a research methodology for establishing the relative facts and presenting them in a manner which would best suit community requirements . |
| 21 | According to the assessments of relatives , friends , and neighbours who answered the questions , the quality of life of people who had been in a residential home for a year or more before their death was similar to that of others who died but had never been in such a home . |
| 22 | ( People who had been in a hospital for all the year before they died have been excluded from these comparisons . ) |
| 23 | This question is considered for people who had been in such homes for a year or more . |
| 24 | These were a Tartar people who had been traditional enemies of the Lombards and the Eastern Empire at Constantinople for generations . |
| 25 | The scientific basis for these reductions was the latest research findings on the health of the 90,000 people who had been exposed to the radiation from the 1945 Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombs and were still alive . |
| 26 | Banbury in the 1960s was still full of professional and trades people who had been at the school before or immediately after the Second World War . |
| 27 | The embarrassment increased as hoards of people who had been behind us passed me with odd , pitying looks , clearly curious as to what the hell I was doing squatting down by a rock on my own some considerable distance from the summit . |
| 28 | Perhaps none of it was very good , but it was at least the beginning of something true in the lives of people who had been educated to falsity . |
| 29 | It must have been heartbreaking for people who had been through sensational experiences to have to recount them to politely tepid audiences and to discover that their stories conformed to an orthodox pattern . |
| 30 | ‘ Retirement for me meant dropping out of a whole network of people who had been very much part of my life . |