Example sentences of "[adj] [n mass] [adv] in [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Because there are so many English folk now in every community and we do tend to sort of doctor up the language a bit you know when we talk to them .
2 There were three people only in the school : myself , the young man and my driver .
3 Because of the large number of elderly people now in the population it is inevitable that much of the discussion will concern their needs , but they are by no means the only people who need personal care .
4 Until the eighteenth century it was common to house two , three or more corps together in the barn , but a later development was the use of half the barn for threshed straw , filling only one side of the threshing floor with unthreshed corn , and the emergence of this practice may have accompanied the increased use of ricks for housing crops or faster threshing by machinery .
5 Eddie baited the swim with mashed bread and legered bread flake on a size 14 hook with 2 lb hook length and 3 lb main line to make the capture and added a small chub later in the session .
6 Any data still in the file buffer is written to the file before the file is closed .
7 The conventions , or unwritten rules , of the constitution were seen as of crucial significance since they secured " in a roundabout way what is called abroad the " sovereignty of the people " " thus making for a governmental system in which " the will of the electors shall by regular and constitutional means always in the end assert itself as the predominant influence in the country " .
8 Julian and I have decided that our business is to look after our own people here in the country . ’
9 Watch the fish carefully for the next few hours — especially if there are other fish already in the tank .
10 The recession is hitting young people hardest in the North-East with unemployment among under 25s growing faster than across the working population as a whole , said Steve Pickering , regional secretary of the General , Municipal and Boilermakers Union .
11 Relationships between two people anywhere in the world can be expressed in terms of a dyadic contract ( Foster 1967 ) .
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