Example sentences of "[adv] the [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Locally the people call this animal a mara . |
| 2 | Shildon reminded him that it was not wholly the fruit of his investigation for Eliot , he had a head start because he used to work for MacQuillan in Detroit . |
| 3 | Some landowners were from time to time able to obtain , by favour or by purchase , a royal grant of the right to hunt the lesser beasts of the forest , such as fox , wild cat and hare , but rarely the deer ; the general prohibition remained . |
| 4 | Upstairs at Emmerich is a show called ‘ Hofmann 's Hofmanns ’ , presumably the works the abstract expressionist kept for himself ( opening 7 January with both shows continuing until 13 February ) . |
| 5 | The architects built a system of simulated streets in the air and presumably the people are supposed to play their part in making it all a success by playing in those streets , which measure three metres wide . |
| 6 | I 'm , I 'm , quite amazed that , that , the question has even been asked , you know , that er that , that , er is this a good thing , I mean er presumably the people that are arguing that it 's not a good thing and that are concerned about events are actually condoning imperialism , er these people seem to think that it 's okay for a country to be occupied er like Poland was occupied by Germany and Czechoslovakia and France , that 's okay er and in fact you know we should just turn a blind eye to it and just let it carry on forever . |
| 7 | Slowly the deer grazed diagonally down onto my hide . |
| 8 | Slowly the fish in the lake swells and the skin stretches |
| 9 | They were right the eel tipped the scales at 2lb 2oz for best of the day ! |
| 10 | oh right the forsythia has actually flowered this year |
| 11 | Eventually the pair connected , and Knuckles presented Owens with a track he had been working on with Japanese musician Satoshi Tomii . |
| 12 | But eventually the pair made the mistake of trying to sell the gems they had claimed were stolen . |
| 13 | Eventually the pair managed to save themselves . |
| 14 | We need more teachers , we need more space , we need more time … if you 've seen the library at lunchtime it 's just a mass of people swarming around and eventually the over.popularity works against its correct function . |
| 15 | Eventually the series was concluded after viewing figures dwindled , but not before a dedicated following was established ; including some of the people who worked on it . |
| 16 | All staff in their counselling work can draw on a range of standard publications , most importantly the Staff Guide which offers detailed guidance on procedures and expected roles . |
| 17 | That said , you know , I know and more importantly the fish know exactly what they like , and that is live food . |
| 18 | Thomas Gunson , of Middlesex , a glass seller , was to he the treasurer or receiver — advancing monies from time to time to carry on the works arid to pay miners or other workmen . |
| 19 | Whoever takes on the trout farm will have their work cut out . |
| 20 | The last possibility seems to be that our original conception of the rule amounted to the creation of a disposition to carry on the series in one way rather than another . |
| 21 | NB : Only one small piece of hand luggage may be taken on the aircraft . |
| 22 | From now on the media began to talk about a ‘ Laura Ashley look ’ , which sometimes meant a milkmaid style and at others a Victorian nursery maid , but the appeal was predominantly pastoral . |
| 23 | In 1934 , on the recommendation of Professor Bell , Dean of the Faculty of Music at the University of Cape Town , her school was given a studio in the College of Music and she was taken on the staff of the Faculty of Music . |
| 24 | I was dismissed from the library , but with a good reference and I was taken on the staff of the local Employment Exchange to ‘ sign on ’ the others . |
| 25 | From now on the people of Marinus must find their own answers . |
| 26 | But now he appears , or rather the people see the effects of his presence , the sweep of his mighty hand . |
| 27 | It is more that industry opens up and exploits certain areas ( or rather the people of those areas ) , subsequently — when it runs into the costs of such development or encounters resistance — to abandon them to unemployment and decay . |
| 28 | The circumstance which offended most of the Yek who heard of it was not the attempt on Alexei 's life , but rather the means which had been employed . |
| 29 | They develop a theory of selective behaviour which does not specify what bureaucrats ' preferences are , but rather the means they use to satisfy them . |
| 30 | My question however concerns not accuracy in labelling but rather the means whereby an exhibit of objects might draw on theories of ‘ otherness ’ in order to explore the role of design in the production of identity . |