Example sentences of "[n mass] [conj] have [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The land for the strip had not even become available , Keker reminded him , until January 1986 , and the only aircraft that had ever landed there had stuck in the mud ; but North could not be persuaded that his memo was ‘ incompatible with the realities of things ’ . |
| 2 | Management consultancy not only made him rich ( he sold Telesis for $1m and has just forked out $1.25m for a Washington house ) ; it also convinced him that America 's ludicrously wasteful health-care system was undermining the nation 's competitiveness abroad . |
| 3 | Chris is riding at number two in britain 's number one bob and has just won bronze and silver in the latest round of the world cup … |
| 4 | And he ran full speed down the hill , by-passing the bodies of Rebel and the lamb and scattering the sheep that had almost settled again . |
| 5 | In August each year , the fish that have just reached adulthood travel towards the American coast . |
| 6 | Improving ratios might have satisfied officials at headquarters but have only produced harder work and often more complaints from the public for the railwayman out on the system . |
| 7 | And by ‘ them ’ he meant the English who identified with a country and a people that had never accepted them . |
| 8 | What I 'm , what I 'm trying to do is , is just er highlight er paths where they are , and , and , and drawing people 's attention to er to , to rights of way in the county , er obviously a lot of people probably would n't be , maybe people that 've just moved into the area , that sort of thing , people like myself who were n't too familiar with Oxfordshire before , er those sort of people probably would n't be aware without a book like this that there were a lot of paths on their doorstep , and some very pleasant countryside as well . |
| 9 | Three new people that have just started with me recently . |
| 10 | You may be surprised , I know of at least 4 people that have only joined since the article was in TSB . |
| 11 | would see a difference but people that have always worked in here do n't notice any difference . |
| 12 | The movies succeeded because they had gone to the people and had seemingly bypassed every obstacle . |
| 13 | The new team , brought in by the company 's largest investor , has laid off 30% of Computone 's staff and has already trimmed between $3m and $4m off the company 's overhead . |
| 14 | This was cheaper per MW and had more advanced steam conditions and higher thermal efficiency . |
| 15 | It has secured sales and has certainly proved a successful campaign . |
| 16 | It is highly unlikely that Stephen Yelverton will ever command the attention of as many people as have already danced to the Poing ! |
| 17 | In the widely read book Human Aggression , the psychoanalyst Anthony Storr draws our attention to the ‘ sombre fact that we are the cruellest and most ruthless species that has ever walked the earth ’ ( 1968 : i ) . |
| 18 | These both have a characteristic age of 16,000yr and have already reached or passed through the shell of their SNR : in so doing PSR1757–24 has apparently brightened the nearby shell by an injection of particles and magnetic field . |
| 19 | The man was around 5ft 4in and had fair coloured hair . |
| 20 | Sponsored by Leigh Interests PLC and Heart of England Building Society , the tournament boasts a prize fund of over £5,000 and has already attracted 18 of England 's top 38 players including seven grandmasters and nine international masters . |
| 21 | She stood up , holding aloft the red geranium that had somehow slipped from Ronni 's hand . |
| 22 | The second method is to buy a pair that have already bred . |
| 23 | Once barren desert , this land of lakes is now home to flamingos , crocodiles and other faunal and flora that have quickly grown accustomed to their new habitat . |