Example sentences of "[n mass] [adv] [vb past] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Silver Helm cavalry swiftly raced along the coast and came upon the Dark Elves on the cliffs . |
| 2 | This data also contributed to the school profiles . |
| 3 | The rear gunner returned fire , but the aircraft then dived into the sea in flames , this being confirmed by A.A. gunners at a coastal battery . |
| 4 | as if impelled by some nameless undertow , the mass of people gently flowed towards the doorway , some still holding their sherry glasses aloft . |
| 5 | Yet it is evident that the timing of the Act had been determined by Churchill 's desire to popularize his first budget and , with the rate of pension remaining static despite inflation , the continuing poverty of many elderly people merely testified to the inefficacy of such posturing in a climate of financial stringency . |
| 6 | I wo never , the people just walked in the door like . |
| 7 | People already knew about the plight of the rainforests through TV and newspapers , but the ball made them read about it again . ’ |
| 8 | But the people still came to the box office , paid the ever-increasing charges for admission , and stayed to laugh . |
| 9 | The nation had also become economically and demographically stagnant : heavy industrial production lagged behind Britain and Germany , nearly a third of people still lived off the land , and in 1940 the population ( at about 40 million ) was little larger than it had been in 1900 . |
| 10 | When people still fished in the lake two carp were caught joined together with golden chain around their necks . |
| 11 | Regrettably , most of the times the ACE arrived at Quainton , the rain poured and the wind blew but about 1,500 people still travelled on the train . |
| 12 | People also knew about the love story between Christine Daaé and the Vicomte de Chagny . |
| 13 | There 's been an increasing tendency for people to stay on at school because they really want to , where it was one of the great criticisms of the boom years that people simply stayed on the escalator regardless , did n't think whether they wanted to stay on to , into sixth form , did n't think whether they wanted to go on to university or higher education , erm just did it without thinking . |
| 14 | Erm , the other important point I think , if by way of introduction , is in paragraph two , and that is , just to make it quite clear that this is a transfer of funding where people previously went to the Department of Social Security and claimed Income Support in order to assist them in accessing services that were provided by the voluntary and private sector . |
| 15 | ONE of our bar staff recently came into the kitchen to ask if she could look in the soup kettle to see what colour the soup was . |
| 16 | The people never came into the picture . |
| 17 | The lycopods can be found in Devonian or even Silurian rocks , but they are generally uncommon in rocks younger than Permian , and all the tree species apparently disappeared before the end of the Palaeozoic . |
| 18 | James IV , idealistic and militaristic , ‘ first and foremost a warrior ’ as Dr Norman Macdougall has described him , spent at least £100,000 Scots ( rather more than three years ' income ) on artillery and even more on his navy ; £30,000 alone went on the building of the huge and spectacular Great Michael , a ship so impressive that it was promptly copied by Henry VIII , whose Henri Grace a Dieu was built virtually to the same specifications in 1512 , a year after the Michael 's completion . |
| 19 | Curiously enough , the same MPs who opposed the building of barracks never objected to the press-gang nor to the occasional use of conscription to keep the army up to strength . |
| 20 | In soil science emphasis had naturally proceeded towards soil processes including soil biology and microbiology ( e.g. Russell , 1957 ) as described in the New Naturalist Series of books and interest in soil processes and soil dynamics also led to the inception of new ideas . |
| 21 | The second series really went off the boil because there was much more emphasis on the woman lawyer . |
| 22 | In his final years he tried to revive his career in an American television series about martial arts called The Master ( 1986 ) but it failed and another series never got beyond the pilot stage . |