Example sentences of "[n mass] [modal v] [verb] in [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe one day , she was thinking , her head and her hormones might agree over something ; and on that day the sun would rise and shine all morning , and fish would leap in the river , and all of her bills would turn out to be rebates . |
| 2 | Although very much a townsman , Eliot was , like G. K. Chesterton , a great advocate of country life , and he shared the attitude of many townsmen that most other people ought to live in the country . |
| 3 | Anderson ( 1971 , pp. 125–7 ) argues that the good wages which young people could earn in the cotton towns in the mid-nineteenth century altered the balance between parents and children and put them on more equal terms when they shared a household , and also made it more possible for them to leave the parental home — although boys did this more often than girls . |
| 4 | Secondly , it said that there had been a threat of economic and monetary union which threatened to bring unemployment , but that that had been removed and therefore people could vote in the referendum knowing that there would be no economic or monetary union . |
| 5 | Yeah but the machine could do what a hundred people could do in a day , ca n't it ? |
| 6 | They could be asked about the improvements that metal tools could bring , Through discussions like these , pupils should be brought to realise that what people could do in the past was often limited by their technology . |
| 7 | I 've learned more in twenty-four hours than most people would manage in a week . |
| 8 | People would stop in the street asking how we were and where we had come from all in perfect English . |
| 9 | Erm I think it it it started off , people would come in the dayroom , with their own supplementary benefit problem , and and clearly we had the sort of handbooks there and and they saw the probation officers on on duty as people who could help them to sort out that sort out that kind of problem . |
| 10 | How many people will eat in the dining room regularly ? |
| 11 | That is the essence of the choice that the people will face in the election . |
| 12 | Yeah well that 's because people are ghoulish some people will stand in the road and stare . |
| 13 | So , so , I believe it 's alright to say well people will migrate in the presence of , it 's rational for a person to migrate in the presence of , of high unemployment if high unemployment only refers to the formal sector , but it 's not rational if it implies that it refers to informal and formal . |
| 14 | Those people will benefit in a number of ways . |
| 15 | Another course for six people will run in a fortnight . |
| 16 | Library staff will co-operate in the production of a computer catalogue , and in the eventual integration into an image database . |
| 17 | I tried to explain to her that few elderly people can remain in a state of reforming fervour all their lives ! |
| 18 | ‘ I suppose the older people can travel in the cab . |
| 19 | So that the social , the social idea in the towns and people can gather in a market place and do what they will without too much trouble , but nevertheless and immediately you try to restrict , we , we run into trouble , but we must protect the people and that 's the purpose for the trading standards . |
| 20 | But then people can live in a village and not know anything about their own charities . |
| 21 | But since field staff can sample in a day only a minuscule proportion of the discharges and watercourses in their districts , the coincidence of sampling when a serious ‘ one-off ’ pollution is occurring is very unlikely . |
| 22 | The pair would remain in the house , and the rest go out to the fishhouse . |
| 23 | It appears to show that a rise in interest rates of 1% would result in a fall in investment by 1.3% after four months , and 2.8% after twelve months . |
| 24 | Given that such a coalition would enjoy the support of more than 50% of electors and that the turnover of seats under PR is small ( Professor Finer estimated that a swing of 1% would result in the loss of only six seats ) , it would most likely remain in office for the foreseeable future and hence be in a position to ensure a degree of policy continuity . |
| 25 | The pair will meet in the World Cross-Country Championships at Amorebieta , near Bilbao , on Sunday , and the ever-pleasant Meyer is determined to achieve a Spanish double , having already defeated the Scot in the Olympic 10,000 metres in Barcelona last year , when she won a silver medal behind Derartu Tulu ( Ethiopia ) . |