Example sentences of "[n mass] of [noun prp] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | BLUE Circle Properties , the property management subsidiary of Blue Circle Industries , has sold the former headquarters of Birmid Qualcast to the West Midlands Fire Service for £1.75m . |
| 2 | In Belgium 's 1991 election 23% of Antwerpers voted for the Vlaams Blok , an anti-immigrant party that wants an independent Flanders ( Antwerp is home to 25,000 Muslims from Turkey and North Africa , and 15,000 Jews ) . |
| 3 | And when the day shall come in which King Bucar arrives , order all the people of Valencia to go upon the walls , and sound your trumpets and tambours , and make the greatest rejoicing that ye can . |
| 4 | According to Booth 8.4 per cent of the people of London lived in the worst condition of being ‘ at all times more or less in want ’ , ‘ ill-nourished and poorly clad ’ . |
| 5 | The people of Kislev moved into the Old World from the areas east of the Worlds Edge Mountains and founded the kingdom which lies on the north eastern borders of the Empire . |
| 6 | Do the people of Alabama disagree about the morality of racial discrimination ? |
| 7 | The statement said the people of Srebrenica appealed to the presidents of the United States and France to help halt the offensive . |
| 8 | The discovery , in 1945 by Brotzu in Sardinia , of antibiotic activity in a species of Cephalosporium recovered from the sea near a sewage outfall was brought to Florey 's attention by a former British public health officer and led to work at Oxford and elsewhere on this and similar organisms . |
| 9 | Only 21% of HAPCs propagated to the rectum . |
| 10 | The share price of the 18% of Vestel quoted on the Istanbul stock exchange is climbing slowly , but is still 40% down on the all time high . |