Example sentences of "[n mass] [vb mod] [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These limitations of methodology and data may limit the short term possibilities for meaningful exchange of information which Medawar desires . |
| 2 | If children who have already been diagnosed as suffering from some specific handicapping condition are included , the data will show the expected age delay before this group matches the performance of the normally developing children . |
| 3 | The development programme for the aircraft will provide the broad range of capabilities which was asked for by all four nations originally and er the fact that one or more nations may have deleted its requirement for a particular facility does n't remove the need for us to complete the development work er because we still have at least one or two customers for that facility . |
| 4 | Li Yuan could sense the great weight of the Marshal 's authority bearing down on him , but steeled himself , forcing himself to confront it . |
| 5 | So much so that , in a recent US television interview , Apple 's chief executive officer John Scully made a prediction that telecoms will dominate the next stage in the development of computing . |
| 6 | Two people may analyse the same thing in a different way . |
| 7 | In the late twentieth century , therefore , people may find the mystical experiment , which also urges the adept to look within himself for the truth and warns against the danger of simplistic ideas and projections about God , a more attractive form of religion than the more conventional and dogmatic types of faith . |
| 8 | He notes the self-perpetuating nature of modern mass production : ‘ Thus vast supplies of products come into existence which call forth an artificial demand that is senseless from the perspective of the subject 's culture ’ ( 1968 : 43 ) , and argues that just as academic pursuits such as philology and archaeology , which start with certain aims , may develop as methods creating infinite classificatory refinements for their own sake , so people may become the mere instrument of that which they originally developed : ‘ The infinitely growing supply of objectified spirit places demands upon the subject , creates desires in him , hits him with feelings of individual inadequacy and helplessness , throws him into total relationships from whose impact he can not with-draw , although he can not master their particular contents ’ ( 1968 : 44 ) . |
| 9 | But , however much people may defend the extra-marital affair in theory , many still discover in practice that their partner 's unfaithfulness leaves them feeling deeply betrayed . |
| 10 | I think one or two other people may have the same comment to make if that was the case erm |
| 11 | In his view , it is a complete fallacy to say that downsizing is cheaper — people should choose the right machine to do the job , he says , obviously enough . |
| 12 | Branson 's views about England were more platitudinous than revolutionary ; England , he would say , is ‘ a great place to live in , but as a great place it should carry on standing totally for democracy and people should have the absolute freedom to say what they think ’ . |
| 13 | Rather than fat cat developers benefiting from the countryside , small businesses and local people should have the main part to play in sensitive development . |
| 14 | This is when two people should begin the real act of loving , but they rarely do because it requires effort and commitment . |
| 15 | We should not go so far as to hold a referendum , but the people must have the final say . |
| 16 | All members of the obstetric and midwifery staff should speak the same language and use the same method of classification — something that can be achieved only by regular meetings on cardiotocography . |
| 17 | that 's what mile do you do on it ? , like some people might think the national speed limit , but it 's not that 's fifty or sixty |
| 18 | Because the erm , situation will become so bad , and , I think people might turn the other way when it comes to a a state where they have to be |
| 19 | I 've told her dad to sit because people might get the same thing . |
| 20 | ‘ You want to watch out , or people might get the wrong idea about you . ’ |
| 21 | Indeed , the mystics played an extremely important part in each one of these three monotheistic religions , even though only a few people could undertake the mystical life . |
| 22 | Indeed , one scientist has been so misled by this grammatical similarity as to say that , given appropriate nerve graftings , two people could feel the same pain just as , if they looked in the same direction , they could see the same table . |
| 23 | One difference is this : Sartre 's aim is the philosophical one of redescribing the location of bodily sensations in a way which does not lend itself to such misunderstandings as that two people could feel the same pain as they can see the same table . |
| 24 | In theory 2 people could pick the same team , but unlikely . |
| 25 | But she reckons more people would watch the ailing show if organisers banned foreign singing . |
| 26 | As my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister has said many times , we should work as hard as we can in the heart of Europe to lead our partners away from the cause of Euro-dirigism and Euro-protectionism , which if allowed to develop under the influence of Madame Cresson and such people would render the entire Community less competitive in global markets and blight the prospects of the developing countries to the south and east of the existing Community . |
| 27 | We know that if , in the introduction of the council tax , the Government inflict on the British people what they did with the poll tax — the £10 billion that it has cost us , the increase in VAT to manipulate it and the innumerable changes to make it more acceptable — local government and the British people will face the same sort of inadequacies and misery . |
| 28 | No two old people will react the same way , so no standard procedure can be recommended . |
| 29 | The assumptions made in Eurodisney 's prospectus are that 16 million people will visit the Magic Kingdom and 10 million will visit a second , as yet unnamed , theme park a year at their peak . |
| 30 | Its people will equal the entire population of Canada . |