Example sentences of "[n mass] [vb base] and [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aircraft come and go all day long ( with the exception of the afternoon 's flying display ) and moving aircraft in among the viewing public seems to be accomplished with the minimum of fuss . |
| 2 | As the MIND report highlights , between 80 per cent and 85 per cent of NHS spending on mental health goes on hospital treatment , despite the overwhelming fact that the majority of people want and prefer community-based alternatives . |
| 3 | I watched several hundred people stop and read these posters . |
| 4 | Many people remember and have fond memories of Community Programme , could you explain what the differences are between Community Programme and Community Action ? |
| 5 | Estranged people confront and bury old grievances and learn to recognise their love and need for each other . |
| 6 | Nor can the horse hear so much when stabled , although some people try and overcome this deficiency by leaving a radio playing all day in the stable for the horse 's benefit . |
| 7 | The reason I went into physics and what I try to inculcate is that the ideas themselves are interesting and that seems to me to be the main justification for it , so that when people try and justify scientific research by saying it 's good for the economy , the country and so on , or who knows what applications are going to come of it , I 'm inclined to sit rather quietly when that 's said because I 'm not convinced that some of the research that is done nowadays can have any practical application at all in that direct sense . |
| 8 | On the areas that we might like to think about design and also delivering training is the different ways people learn and to do that go through learning styles . |
| 9 | Recent works isolate and enlarge single objects such as a spoon , a fingernail , and the bubble from a carpenter 's level , transforming them into meditations on space , form and texture . |