Example sentences of "[n mass] [prep] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jansher , who was already on probation after being fined £200 for walking out of the Kuala Lumpur World Open dinner in October , has clearly reached a point of no return with his conduct . |
| 2 | Hopefully , it 'll give some severely disabled people a means of getting out of the bath without having to rely on another person . ’ |
| 3 | Likewise , the purpose of introducing science into the secondary schools was never in doubt to such leading advocates as H. E. Roscoe , the first President of the Association of Public School Science Masters ( the precursor of our Association for Science Education ) ; school science was , for Roscoe , as Layton quotes him , to be ‘ the means of sifting out from the great mass of the people those golden grains of genius which now are too often lost amongst the sands of mediocrity ’ . |
| 4 | means of reporting back to the full governing body ; and |
| 5 | For Jeanne Favret-Saada ( 1980 ) , who set out to study witchcraft in the French Bocage , the only means of moving in on the discourse she hoped to understand was to become part of it . |
| 6 | Alastair McLeish , secretary of the ULA branch , said : ‘ The principal is trying to pressurise staff into backing out of the strike . |
| 7 | Equally we 've tried not to traumatise the public or our staff by cutting back to the governments preferred level all at once . |