Example sentences of "[n mass] [am/are] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stream take-offs by the Hercules and Centaurus-powered aircraft are followed by film of the aircraft en route to the dropping zone . |
| 2 | Currently , practice data are standardised for age by converting list sizes to prescribing units and prescribing costs are expressed per prescribing unit rather than per patient . |
| 3 | The problem , in many cases , seems to lie less with the original ethnographic descriptions than with secondary and tertiary applications where these data are put into service in the construction of grand theoretical schemes . |
| 4 | The unit changes what it ‘ sees ’ into a digital form and records this onto a floppy disc , from which the data are translated by computer into an image of the tree 's insides . |
| 5 | Lots of our pet fish are regarded as food in their native countries . |
| 6 | If you dip the end of the wires in a stream where such fish are searching for food in the muddy bottom , you will hear a series of clicks . |
| 7 | The men and women of the 9th Supply Regiment of the Royal Logistical Corps are going to Split in Croatia . |
| 8 | Values less than 6.0 mg/l are considered normal and those exceeding 6.0 mg/l are regarded as evidence of a raised CRP in serum . |
| 9 | " If livestock are to live in balance with the environment again , First World consumers will have to eat less meat , while Third World citizens will need to keep their meat consumption low " the report said . |
| 10 | Thousands of people are living in fear of their lives in the wake of the Belfast shootings , according to the SDLP MP . |
| 11 | However , when planning we need to make sure that people are compensated for disruption in a way that does not put them at a disadvantage . |
| 12 | That seems to me , a very evil thing , if people are kept in prison for months before they 've been found guilty . |
| 13 | More than three million people are threatened by drought in an impoverished corner of Ethiopia . |
| 14 | But a lot of people are looking for pseudo-satisfaction through lusting after this complete stranger , and you have to accept that , fight on that terrain. , |
| 15 | Forty people are to appear in court in Blackpool today after Birmingham City supporters went on the rampage before and after their team 's Third Division match with Blackpool , wrecking a pub , smashing dozens of windows and bombarding police with bottles and glasses . |
| 16 | I think a lot of people are put off computing by the thought that it 's very technical and very difficult to get into , and I think in some ways it still is and there 's a sort of group of experts who rather jealously guard their knowledge , so in that sense , yes , they could short cut and remove skills that perhaps people should have . |
| 17 | Finally , the Rampton/Swann statistics themselves provide evidence that the educational achievements of Afro-Caribbean children and young people are increasing from year to year at a higher rate than those of other groups . |
| 18 | One and a half million people are going without treatment for a bone disease which can cause severe pain and deformity . |
| 19 | Some 850,000 people are supplied with water with a nitrate concentration above 50 mg/litre . |
| 20 | Walker ( 1980 , 1987 ) , Townsend ( 1981 ) and Bosanquet ( 1987 ) have argued that old people are forced into dependency by the rest of society through early retirement policies , stigmatising social security , and welfare services which undermine independence . |
| 21 | When people are fleeing from fear of imprisonment , torture or death , they will use any means available to reach a safe country . |
| 22 | It is not the case that whenever we become a member of a civil society , a body politic , that we are so to speak signing the social contract erm think of it erm a little bit like erm a social club erm East Biddock Old Comrades Club was actually established in the way Locke describes , you know , a group of citizens of East Biddock came together and decided to establish a social club subsequently of course all sorts of people are admitted to membership of East Biddock Old Comrades Club but that as a process which , although very similar to the original contract of establishment , is n't actually erm the same , you know , they 're not actually re-establishing the civil society , they 're joining one that already exists . |
| 23 | ‘ Hurry up — I gather people are standing in line for the loo . ’ |
| 24 | Dr David Moore of Manchester University on the decision to allow the British astronaut to take 24 quails ' eggs and 24 mushrooms on the Soviet Juno space mission People are standing in front of the toaster saying ‘ Faster , faster ’ . |
| 25 | In proposing hypotheses , people are guided by knowledge of past failures , by analogies with theories that have been successful in handling related subject matters ; Peirce 's ‘ affinity ’ between mind and nature is an allusion to something which is required to explain the speed of the growth of knowledge ; and testing theories is an intentional activity which appeals to general cognitive aims — to describe reality , anticipate experience , solve problems , produce elegant and simple formalisms , etc . |
| 26 | Gangs and guerrillas are talked of Wealthy people are talking of escape from a Caribbean version of James Baldwin 's ‘ the fire next time ’ . |
| 27 | However , if staff are to remain in touch with each other , and the head is to remain in touch with all staff , close attention needs to be paid to communication , and to ensuring that managerial procedures like school philosophies and policy statements remain rooted in day-to-day needs and realities rather than take on a life of their own . |
| 28 | Line managers are thought of as ‘ first class citizens ’ and staff are relegated in status to the second rank as expensive ‘ overheads ’ , who are not contributing anything of worth to the organisation . |
| 29 | The Works are connected by pipeline to a holding tank and loading arms at the North Side , Edinburgh Dock . |
| 30 | 1.5.3 such other fitting out works as the Tenant shall [ reasonably ] require ] The tenant 's works may of course be far more extensive and the above works are given by way of illustration only . |