Example sentences of "[n mass] [pron] [vb base] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Using more recent data which provide a similar comparison , Figure 11.2 plots real money stock and real GDP for the period 1979 — 87 .
2 Bare hospital tanks have their place , but are not popular with fish which prefer a sandy substrate .
3 If you are a nurse who has saved the lives of five people you get a British Empire medal .
4 Those people who show a strong respect for authority and who expect negative criticism often dread making presentations to their superiors ( see Chapter Four for more on authority and criticism ) .
5 In my experience most people who suffer a myocardial infarct have been under pressure with associated exhaustion and fatigue for a prolonged period .
6 And there is a high proportion of people who know a good deal about what they are looking at and may even have seen it before .
7 It sounds convincing but , as I have already noted , most people who know a particular species well quickly develop a good intuitive sense from an animal 's bodily and facial postures of whether it is likely to attack or escape .
8 ‘ Many spend two years in the sixth form and get nothing at all , and it is hard for people who get a low grade at A-level to realise they have actually done very well . ’
9 The Minister of State spoke about overcrowding and the cost of adding a supervision requirement to the new sentence ; with Mayhew , in a phrase that was to gain increasing currency on the Conservative benches , pronouncing that whereas a great many people who get a suspended sentence , and their friends , think that they have got away with their crime , the effect of ‘ a short , sharp and I hope , nasty taste of prison ’ would linger on .
10 I would go as far as to argue that , however well-intentioned and humanitarian the people who undertake a socialist revolution , the logic of their ideology , which is of necessity reflected in the institutions which they create , makes totalitarianism inevitable .
11 It is a known fact that most people who attempt a new diet or exercise regime fail on Day 3 .
12 THE majority of farmers have done so much to ensure quality food , a healthy environment , a beautiful countryside and the welfare of their animals , yet too often , they are still viewed as the people who make a handsome profit producing food mountains and destroying the environment .
13 Most people who take a personal pension in place of SERPS will qualify for an extra 2 per cent payment by the DSS on top of the minimum contributions .
14 " For people who take a sober view of life , " he said , " a person is liberal who is prepared not to take thought for his personal interests but to expend all his energy on standing up for the juridical independence of every citizen and the freedom of every action which does not undermine the well-being and the tranquillity of society " .
15 They strike me as people who take a keen pleasure in the beauty of the natural world , and in the strength , swiftness and cleverness of animals ( even those of no use , or downright dangerous , to Man ) .
16 From 1 November 1991 , people who hold a partial help certificate ( AG3 ) under the NHS Low Income Scheme will be able to put their patient contribution towards the cost of a private home visit by their optician .
17 Another scale of wholesale charges for unused equipment is also useful for people who like a particular product so much that they genuinely want to buy it for themselves , albeit at a preferential rate .
18 Questions are asked by people who lack a particular piece of knowledge , and questions are addressed to people who are assumed to be more knowledgeable about that topic .
19 We will give the first 100 people who apply a FREE copy of our broadsheet on " Pesticides : Waging War on our Countryside " .
20 They actually are welcoming good material in various senses , and in particular , they will welcome people who have a good story , a nice item , which they 're prepared to come and record , either in the studio , or record on a Ewer somewhere on tape .
21 There are people who have a good pension when there in retirement , do n't there department , I 'm the only one that 's elected .
22 But the kind of songs I really want to write — and I 'm not saying I will — are the kind The Frank & Walters and the Lemonheads write , the sort of people who have a genuine love for other people and can see past all the crap that goes on . ’
23 There are also younger people who have a long term chronic illness or handicap ; people who have been Psychiatrically ill ; people who have a mental handicap .
24 They are written by people who have a slackening grip on the friendly hand of reality .
25 This dodge applies to all those people who have a normal size screen and have trouble accurately selecting areas of text .
26 Hypochondria is thought to be a result of repressed emotions and secret fears , and it is far more likely to develop in families where there is a preoccupation with illness , or in people who have a great deal of contact with invalids as children .
27 if you want to say put the name of an accent down You wanted to put say Birmingham and then say , How would you rate people who have a strong accent from this place on a scale of one to five for friendless , honesty the things which you could
28 There are also younger people who have a long term chronic illness or handicap ; people who have been Psychiatrically ill ; people who have a mental handicap .
29 It is specifically for carers of people who have a mental health problem .
30 In essence , a credit union , which is a non-profit-making financial co-operative , is formed by a group of people who have a common identity .
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