Example sentences of "[n mass] [prep] [noun] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1971 , about 10% of marriages involved the first marriage of one party to a divorced partner and 4% involved the remarriage of two divorcees ; by 1989 , these proportions had risen to 19% and 13% respectively . |
| 2 | The Campbell clansmen wore the filabeg also , but the castle folk of Inveraray wore the modern court fashion ; knee-length gown of fine wool , linen damask or velvet , the sleeves trailing nearly to the ground , all braided , slashed , looped , laced , furred and embroidered for the occasion ; bone-white shirt , long hose and long-toed shoes . |
| 3 | Folk in Preston thought the best 'un Was the right 'un . |
| 4 | Sign language are offering a set of six stainless coasters for £11.95 inc p&p illustrating the following : Beaufighter , Hurricane , Lancaster , Mosquito , Spitfire , and Wellington . |
| 5 | The top 50–100 m of ocean forms the polar mixed layer , a layer diluted by fresh water ( mostly from rivers ; see below ) to salinity of about 32 parts per thousand ( ppt ) . |
| 6 | The result is that , of the 7–10 litres entering the gut , only about 100ml of water leave the healthy gut daily in the faeces . |
| 7 | Congress ordered the Army Corps of Engineers to harness the natural system in an operation rivalled only in Holland . |
| 8 | Erm now erm as regards when it happens to people erm , again going back to this B B C Childwatch Survey um of girls sixty percent reported that the first incident happened when they were ten , forty percent of boys reported the first incident occurred when they were under ten so it seems , if you look at the sort of average , averages are quite deceptive in this area but nevertheless if you look at the average um it seems to happen slightly earlier for girls than for boys . |
| 9 | 1975 statistics from Lesotho reveal the following figures : Schools in Cameroon and in rural areas in Sierra Leone and Ethiopia are unlikely to fare better , while there is no country in Africa without substantial numbers of schools where physical conditions inhibit any but the most basic instruction . |
| 10 | The point at which the saving of the differential tax at 15% on income outstrips the increased National Insurance liability is likely to be in the region of earnings of £75,000 as is illustrated by the following example . |
| 11 | So far , this has been handled by visits to Unipart 's headquarters in Oxford to understand the wholesaling operation from start to finish and to see the ‘ parts superstores ’ that are typical of the UK retail market . |
| 12 | In the sixth annual study ‘ The Image of France Telecom , ’ which is commissioned by the Ministry of Posts & Telecommunications , 94% of customers said the French state phone company functions ‘ really well ’ ( 34% ) or ‘ rather well ’ ( 64% ) . |
| 13 | It evidently did not occur to them that the people of Auckland felt the same . |
| 14 | Why should the people of Liverpool have to pay for the self-inflicted deficits of their local council , and why should the people of Lothian suffer the same dismal experience ? |
| 15 | In fact , during the Hundred Years War ( 1337 to 1453 ) , the people of Bordeaux took the English side , and many of the vineyards were destroyed in revenge . |
| 16 | For the people of Pakistan to enjoy the huge benefits of heating and cooking at the press of a switch , then praise be to the Darlington firms of Head Wrightson and Whessoe . |
| 17 | If the less successful variants were not multiplying quickly enough an element of competition would also mean that poor replicators will be less efficient at acquiring the means of survival to keep the new species going . |
| 18 | Opinion polls show 70% of voters oppose the White Paper — most people put the NHS at the top of their list of political concerns . |
| 19 | Hence RMC spent almost £1m with Waterers to get the desired effect at its headquarters at Thorpe Park and Esso 's Leatherhead headquarters was adorned with lavish landscaping . |
| 20 | If the government were calm most people in Britain took the American threats seriously : the thought of war was inconceivable and Nonconformity united in support of a negotiated settlement . |
| 21 | ‘ Most of the people in Britain know the basic facts about your life . ’ |
| 22 | It was therefore with great joy that most people in Britain greeted the recent news that three Beluga whales , which are closely related to dolphins , had made their own bid for freedom . |
| 23 | Some people in INTELSAT saw the Franco-German Symphony satellites as the thin edge of the wedge . |
| 24 | And if the Shepherds felt so strongly about Sakata , how many other people in Kershaw felt the same ? |
| 25 | STEPHEN MANSFIELD Hopes gone up in smoke : Phil Green of People In Need examines the charred and sodden mess that was once a £1million aid cargo for Romania and Bosnia |
| 26 | An agreement signed during a two-day visit by senior purchasing staff from Behr appointed the Welsh Development Agency 's source team to select Welsh companies capable of supplying air conditioning system components such as wiring harnesses , precision castings and turned parts . |
| 27 | The average of results from balloons , the X-15 rocket-plane and the Mariner 6 and 7 spacecraft to Mars placed the solar constant at 1364 W/C sq.m . |
| 28 | I managed to win a couple of quid on Deano to score the first goal , at odds of 7–1 . |
| 29 | Because of the time differences across the globe , Australians are among the first people on Earth to herald the New Year . |
| 30 | Over 400,000 people per year visit the Imperial War Museum at Duxford , Cambridgeshire , where , in hangar No 3 , stands a B–17G Flying Fortress , faithfully reproduced in the colours and markings of Mary Alice of the 615th Squadron , 401st Bomb Group . |