Example sentences of "[adj] [n mass] [adv] [vb past] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ABOUT FOUR YEARS ago the British popular media suddenly discovered the silicon chip . |
| 2 | WITH any luck , 1992 will go down in history as the year in which a large proportion of the British people finally recognised the monarchy for the anachronism it has undoubtedly become . |
| 3 | A spokesman said controversial stories about top people normally sparked a lot of reaction . |
| 4 | Very few people ever left the isolation hospital and visitors had to sit behind a glass screen . |
| 5 | Reduction in chlorambucil dose to 2 mg daily had no effect on visual symptoms . |
| 6 | The National Headquarters reputedly had a museum of offensive weapons used by anti-fascists which included knuckledusters , rubber piping , coshes of all sizes , razors set in potatoes and daggers . |
| 7 | As The Smiths grew in commercial stature , so they encountered more and more professional people , especially in America , and these people constantly told the band to think big , to think mega , to evolve into a major international unit . |
| 8 | Famous people also became a source of station spectacle . |
| 9 | And I think if there was a referendum in Scotland it might turn out that many people here wanted the monarchy ended . |
| 10 | More people probably had The Orb down as hippies . |
| 11 | Isolation from centres of further education meant that these young folk often had no opportunity to participate in training and would welcome the opportunity of taking part in training courses such as welding , building maintenance , shearing , etc , which might improve their chances of employment in a rural area . |
| 12 | Humbler folk also felt the weight of the Forest law . |
| 13 | All the fish were fed standard foods with some scalded lettuce and cucumber for the Ancistrus at night — when a number of the other fish also enjoyed a nibble on the lettuce . |
| 14 | The torpid staff inside showed no inclination to outpace your average snail until I mentioned that the dog could contain a considerable volume of food and was suffering from a severe dose of Delhi Belly . |
| 15 | About six , two people already had the sense not to come . |
| 16 | The distribution and structural data strongly suggested the possibility that ICAM-3 would be a third ligand for LFA-1 and experiments were undertaken to test this hypothesis . |
| 17 | He said that local people particularly welcomed the fact that the store would bring 200 job opportunities to the area . |
| 18 | Local people subsequently entered the site in order to loot the metal containers holding the pesticides , and simply poured the contents away . |
| 19 | But most people just got a headache . |