Example sentences of "[adj] [n mass] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His job now was to let the allied headquarters know what he had seen : that the French had crossed the frontier and that the campaign had therefore begun . |
| 2 | To be aware of the limitations of different forms of publication is an advantage for the reader , who can by this means avoid unnecessary disappointments . |
| 3 | We possess no worked example to illustrate how genes control behaviour ; all we can say is that , in abstract terms , proteins influence the development of neurons , and that genes must by this means influence the development of the nervous system . |
| 4 | Why did some people move and others stay ? |
| 5 | towards crime prevention on the other hand it might make some people realise that if they 're no longer a scheme then they do n't get the er the |
| 6 | Plaster dust floated down from the ceiling making some people choke and one little girl shriek that it had got into her eyes . |
| 7 | Q. Why do some people do everything the food experts tell them and still have high cholesterol levels ? |
| 8 | Why do some people think that faith is necessarily troubled by doubt but that knowledge is not ? |
| 9 | This is what has made some people think that in this work the distinction between good and bad is simply arbitrary , residing not in the nature of the characters but in the needs of the plot . |
| 10 | Just to look at the upturned ‘ blunt front ’ makes some people go ‘ Ahhh ! ’ |
| 11 | I mean , let , some people go up go off where ? |
| 12 | The difficulty is that the Community Charge is insensitive to people 's ability to pay and I would like to have seen er some people go rather more into the possibility of a local income tax . |
| 13 | Not only did some people continue to read their newspapers , but others actually gathered to watch ! |
| 14 | So acutely did some people feel menaced by the ‘ godless conspiracy ’ that in Brooklyn , when a sewer explosion blew out the manholes , they panicked and shouted ‘ The Russians ! ’ ; in Boston an antique exhibition barred Russian pieces from being exhibited ; in Bournemouth the conductor of the municipal symphony orchestra barred pieces by Shostakovitch from being played . |
| 15 | ‘ Yes , but why do some people live longer than others ? ’ |
| 16 | The emphasis here is on education and recreation , so it is bound to make some people ask whether or not it is too soft for criminals . |
| 17 | The emphasis here is on education and recreation , so it is bound to make some people ask whether or not it is too soft for criminals . |
| 18 | It requires great tact and perseverance to make some people accept a coaching atmosphere . |
| 19 | And did some people use it like er almost like in a like a money lending scheme then ? |
| 20 | ‘ Did some people dominate the meeting , and if so , why ? ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Glandular changes can make some people gain weight at the menopause but the commonest cause is eating and drinking more than you need . ’ |
| 22 | Could some people have asthma and not know it ? |
| 23 | The other question posed above — Why do some people become ill and others not ? — is less easy to answer , except in the most general terms . |
| 24 | He can not let this people go . |
| 25 | Moreover , ‘ Let this people go ’ the Birmingham female reformers asserted , were the words of ‘ the voice of reason , of conscience , of revelation ’ . |
| 26 | ‘ How long will this people despise me ? |
| 27 | so , erm I hope that , that might make few people visit , but then as I said also in it , you ca n't force people to go to the theatre if they do n't want |
| 28 | We have let a few people remix a few things , just for fun , but normally I would n't want to change it ; it had a certain magic at the time . |
| 29 | He shouts ‘ Beats International ! ’ with the kind of enthusiasm most sane people save for a winning goal or a multiple birth , and then he breaks into rhyme . |
| 30 | In one sense , the association of parental care and mating system transfers the question back a stage ; for why do some species have biparental , others maternal care ? |