Example sentences of "[n mass] [that] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was told that I would have to take a strange aircraft that night , I learnt that my aircraft had been damaged by flak — and Italian flak to boot — and one of my lads was in hiding as he claimed I had threatened him with dire punishment if he damaged my aircraft . |
| 2 | It is apparent from the data that Mucking was not a village but a series of shifting hamlets , a close community changing to one in which there was far less interaction , which may be intimately connected with changes in the methods of landholding . |
| 3 | LEFT Computers and other electronic devices are now essential tools in archaeology for handling the vast amounts of data that fieldwork produces . |
| 4 | Buzzell and Gale ( 1987 ) conclude from the PIMS data that product and service quality is the most significant factor for the longer-run success of a business . |
| 5 | At present the programme is supported largely by the Department of Energy ( DEn ) which retains the Survey to interpret the seismic and well data that oil companies supply to DEn under the various regulations governing petroleum and pipelines . |
| 6 | Bob Worcester , chairman of Mori , says : ‘ It is important to know what happened , not just for the sake of the pollsters but for that of the research business and the marketing decisions that depend upon confidence in the data that market research provides . ’ |
| 7 | There are no factual data that amalgamation of institutions has any advantages beyond economies of some central services such as catering and purchasing , and perhaps administrative convenience . |
| 8 | Indeed , it is through data collection and searching for patterns in those data that theory is elaborated . |
| 9 | Attempts to buck that system would end in the courtrooms or , as likely , unemployment . |
| 10 | I went back to Brigade headquarters that evening hoping that all would go well and wondering what the next problem was going to be . " |
| 11 | Following treatment , lambs should be moved to pasture not grazed by sheep that year , otherwise they will immediately become reinfected . |
| 12 | And thus it was that when the day shift set off back to the Barracks that evening , Jackie Tiptoe remained behind , suspended from the ceiling like a crooked spider snarled up in its own web . |
| 13 | What will persuade folk that confidentiality is assured ? |
| 14 | On the Via Mercanti side of the palazzo is a relief sculpture of the ‘ half wool sow ’ , the mythical half-pig , half-sheep that legend had it was the real derivation of the name Mediolanum — from medio lanae . |
| 15 | Poor Blair would then feel guilty , having missed a fish that Father would most certainly have landed . |
| 16 | He jointly led the European Tour 's Greens in Regulation statistics that year , but his putting was so horrendous that he was almost totally incapable of converting the countless birdie opportunities set up with excellent tee-to-green play . |
| 17 | Nonetheless , such is the business world 's trust in statistics that analysis of the ratings is done in massive detail , and the results treated like holy writ . |
| 18 | but it , he paid back five quid well Geoffrey said in reality it must of been about twenty quid that kid had taken but er he said they made him pay back five pounds , so at least they |
| 19 | The company says it 's all down to convincing young people that cider is a fashionable tipple . |
| 20 | I might ignore all the warnings and even try to convince other people that lung cancer does not really exist . |
| 21 | Now , you could be one of the people that drink harmed quicker than maybe , say or maybe I 'm ta injured quicker than you with drink . |
| 22 | Everything I have learnt teaches me that it is only when you work with rather than against people that achievement and lasting success is possible . |
| 23 | As a result both agencies have to continue claiming that Russia is facing terrible threats from the West and therefore that their existence is essential despite the fact that Gorbachev is busily telling the Russian people that co-existence is not only possible but desirable as are many aspects of capitalist society . |
| 24 | They killed an enormous number of people that night because nearly the whole canton had joined FECCAS . |
| 25 | He did it not because he liked people that night but to make a moral point about something or other . |
| 26 | The economic and political complexities of European history which made the brutal exploitation of native South American Indians so attractive to Spain need not be gone into here , but in the silver mines Rose of Lima saw , at first hand , one of the most squalid examples of materialism and petty colonialism , and also one of the most defeated and culturally mutilated people that history offers us . |
| 27 | Thus the growth in government could be measured in terms of the number of people that government employs . |
| 28 | I used to be a hunt supporter , I used to be a hunt follower I gave up because I object to an attitude of a society of people that life is disposable having seen wounded fox hounds and that is the proper term having seen wounded fox hounds despatched with a revolver because they 've got a broken leg having charged full pelt across a public road and hit a motor car coming the other way and fortunately not injured the occupants of the motor car having seen the damage that a pack of hounds in full cry can do to land that they are not entitled to be upon because fox hounds ca n't read . |
| 29 | On two occasions during this period he told at least four people that money had been found by her body . |
| 30 | eh , its a free country and you should be able to choose what you want to do yourself er , if something is damaging to your health then I would agree , yes , smoking I do n't agree with smoking but if people want to smoke that 's entirely up to them , they know the risks , I would n't smoke , I know the risks but vegetarianism is purely a matter of choice and there 's no peop people that harp on about you should n't eat meat , get on my nerves |