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Among bees (occur/occurs) a highly elaborate form of communication.

On the rim of the Kilauea volcano in the Hawaiian Islands (is/are) a hotel called the Volcano Hotel.

Only once (have/has) there been more excitement in this city about a sporting event.

Ten miles beyond the river (was/were) the farmlands that they had purchased with their life savings.

Most of Benito’s shirts (have/has) at least one pocket.

It is disconcerting to believe that every possible candidate (have/has) been rejected for one reason or another.

The box of cartridges for the printer (have/has) been misplaced.

Few of my friends (dislike/dislikes) both crunchy peanut butter and the smooth variety.

Scientists at the medical center (is/are) trying to determine if there is a relationship between saccharine and cancer.

The contracts signed by the company (have/has) been voided because some stipulations were not met.

Bobby has a bigger bicycle than (do/does) the other children in the neighborhood.

Nobody (remember/remembers) that the space between the thumb and the first finger is called the purlicue.

Each package that is not properly wrapped (have/has) to be returned to the sender.

If nobody (have/has) bought that car from the dealer, then you should return and make another offer.

The proposal brought so much new work to the partnership that there (was/were) not enough hours to complete all of it.

She would not have to enter the house through the bedroom window (was/were) the keys where they were supposed to be.

Kepler’s Laws, principles outlining planetary movement, (was/were) formulated based on observations made without a telescope.

Of all the evidence that has piled up since Webster's paper was published, there (is/are) no new ideas to contradict his original theory.

All of the workers who enter by the main gate (pass/passes) through a metal detector.

Homes heated by solar energy (have/has) special collectors on the roof to trap sunlight.