Example sentences of "[n mass] [vb mod] [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once they reach this state the fry will move away from the nest and face the dangers of life on their own without their father 's protection . |
| 2 | Mighty Lemon Drops bassist Marcus Williams , Katydids vocalist Susie Hugg and 18-year-old former roadie Bob will fill in on the day . |
| 3 | We follow BA 's Captain Jock Lowe and his crew through the intricacies of pre-flight preparation , take-off , climbout and that beautifully understated cabin announcement — with just a touch of pride — about how the aircraft will accelerate smoothly through the sound barrier , ultimately to reach Mach 2.2 . |
| 4 | It could be said that from the point of view of social research , the world only exists as data and data can exist only through the interpretations placed on materials gathered from the world . |
| 5 | • Nocturnal or crepuscular ( evening-time ) fish may miss out on the food if you do not give them their rations just before lights out . |
| 6 | On a scale of user friendliness and acceptability , major success in consumer multimedia must lie somewhere between the electric kettle and the television set . |
| 7 | Some freshwater fish can see further into the red or longer wavelength part of the spectrum than we can . |
| 8 | Previous chapters have emphasised how the mass media may contribute indirectly to the potential for public disorder , first , by helping to create an ideological climate which justifies and encourages the use of repressive control tactics against dissenting groups ; and second , by ‘ sensitising ’ the police and public to the possibility that disorder might occur . |
| 9 | Communication to staff may come straight from the top , with the highest levels of management informing all employees of the move or top management may inform senior management who , in turn , hold meetings with supervisors to explain how and why the relocation exercise will take place . |
| 10 | People must think hard about the job they 're doing ; how they can make it safer . |
| 11 | People must turn up at the proverbial factory gates fresh , fit and ready to toil . |
| 12 | Instead of being critical , adversarial or even sceptical , the media should bow down to the needs of the country so as to encourage development across all sectors . |
| 13 | The power that older people might have collectively through the ballot box is not exercised . |
| 14 | In three hours we managed to get the contractors to build an earth ramp , roll it flat , cover it with gravel and put a handrail alongside so that people could walk down from the road to a flat area beside the ceremony site . |
| 15 | but it meant people could go up to the box office and take a tape recorder and sit and listen to them |
| 16 | Asked to paint a mental picture of the typical French intellectual , most people could come up with the significant details . |
| 17 | The thing that 's suggested just to sort of er bring that round to you to you know rather than just have me speaking , is to suggest that er if I start a sentence er perhaps you know people could join in with the finish of that sentence , you know . |
| 18 | it 's a kind of thing that I think could be put and take and people could pick up at the box office |
| 19 | Milton Keynes has its own hospital ; consultants and senior staff could move there with the medical school . |
| 20 | But you know you mentioned that people used to help out with the dogs . |
| 21 | The idea of travelling between areas to take advantage of shorter waiting times appears to have some public support as Leathard ( 1990 ) quotes a survey which suggests that 40 per cent of people would go anywhere in the country to avoid waiting for treatment . |
| 22 | It places it into a context of back in the 1930's when people would gather early in the morning and wait for the foreman to come along and pick out people who look suitable for work that day . |
| 23 | ‘ I think the patience of the world is getting stretched — possibly some people would say already beyond the point of endurance , ’ Lord Owen told reporters . |
| 24 | And sometimes Madame would just decide that we all needed a change and there 'd be paint ordered and people would come in during the day and work for a couple of days and the whole place would be done out for a party or a festival . |
| 25 | That , then , was the concatenation of circumstances that lay behind the events of Thursday night : Bill Muggeridge noticing the ring on the kitchen calendar ; Toby winning a victory over the headmaster on Monday night which made him chary of challenging him again on Wednesday ; Mr Crumwallis deciding that , on balance , a public schoolboy who was on the staff would do more for the school 's prestige than a young local , however personable . |
| 26 | A lot of people will miss out on the chance . ’ |
| 27 | You have to look objectively at strengths , and how people will fit in with the others . |
| 28 | The first is that if a country 's economy can support a widespread increase in per capita income , then people will move out of the " lower " classes and these may become less significant in population and marketing terms . |
| 29 | The Tiebout model is sometimes called the invisible foot : people will cluster together in the area providing the package of spending and taxes they want . |
| 30 | Demographic circumstances around that time tend to have substantial effects on the type and quality of housing which many people will live in for the rest of their lifetimes . |