Example sentences of "[n mass] are [adv] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The aircraft are easily converted for casualty evacuation , and can accommodate three stretcher patients , two attendants plus all the equipment required for intensive care . |
| 2 | The same expenditure data are also plotted on Figure 1b against what is here called Research Orientation Ranking , that is the proportion of postgraduate research on ‘ Other Physical Sciences ’ in the CVCP Report . |
| 3 | If the White Welsh is crossed to black or red animals and the offspring are also crossed to black or red , the dark extreme of the colour-pointed cline becomes evident and the coats are colour-sided or linebacked . |
| 4 | Fungus is rarely a primary invader of the fish , only occurring in the later stages of disease when fish are heavily infected by protozoa , flukes and bacteria . |
| 5 | In nature small fish are constantly looking for food , and will eat small amounts whenever they find them . |
| 6 | In many cases the onset of symptoms is found in situations where water quality has deteriorated , where aggressive fish are constantly battling for territory or where opportunist parasites find a weakened fish and multiply rapidly . |
| 7 | I am often asked why I go night fishing , and it is too easy to say it is because my chances of catching big fish are greatly increased at night . |
| 8 | Is n't it wonderful to realize that when we hear that noise now it 's because people are either flying for pleasure or business purposes . |
| 9 | People are already querying from time to time the de decision judges make . |
| 10 | Most of us are still thinking about our Summer holidays , but one group of people are already preparing for Christmas ! |
| 11 | ‘ People are n't raping for rape 's sake . |
| 12 | Does training in economics make you mean — or is it just that mean people are somehow attracted to economics ? |
| 13 | The system has proved a remarkably cost effective way of ensuring that people are not appointed to consultant posts unless they have reached appropriate levels of training and experience . |
| 14 | So all , as I say erm , never used to be able to die with asthma there was but very few , but now it seems to be more common because people are not going for help when they need it . |
| 15 | Many people are precisely dispensing with Christianity because they can no longer believe in it . |
| 16 | The minimalist interpretation is too weak since it assumes that people are never bound by authority regarding issues on which they have firm views . |
| 17 | However , during all those years of ‘ cut your carbohydrates ’ advice , which impressed itself so much on the British public that many people are still overwhelmed with guilt at the sight of a slice of bread or a potato , all high-carbohydrate foods were grouped together as culprits in causing this rebound hunger which led to excessive eating . |
| 18 | These data contrast with those of the Independent Commission on International Humanitarian Issues ( 1986 ) which opines that some 230 million people are directly threatened by desertification and that annually 21 million ha are rendered almost or completely unproductive . |
| 19 | Even though fewer than three thousand people are now engaged in whaling , directly and indirectly , their loss of support might trigger a loss of confidence among other rural people and jeopardise the LDP 's increasingly frail hold on government ; an office they have held for more than 25 years . |
| 20 | One doctor said : ‘ There has not been a dramatic increase , but more people are definitely coming into casualty . |
| 21 | To ask the Secretary of State for Employment how many unemployed people are currently engaged in training schemes . |
| 22 | According to Smith and his colleagues , about 200 million people are chronically infected with hepatitis B virus , which , if it is not immediately lethal , may cause death more gradually , either by slowly rotting the liver , or by inducing liver cancer . |
| 23 | The belief underlying such proposals is that many older people are only referred for treatment at a late stage of dependency when treatment is less effective and more expensive . |
| 24 | The providers of domestic , portering and ward ancillary staff are also subjected to pressure from staff for the peak-holiday periods . |
| 25 | The project has dealt with 340 clients from 45 different countries , but the project coordinator is now only working voluntarily , and the staff are heavily overloaded with casework . |
| 26 | Its staff are specifically charged with marketing duties — assessing customer wants , gathering market intelligence , obtaining customer reactions , organizing sales and distribution , for example . |
| 27 | ( The implications for paid staff are further considered in Chapter 7 . ) |
| 28 | The chief executive in two is answerable these are monitored by the so that some staff are indeed paid in cash . |
| 29 | HOSPICE staff are still appealing for furniture for their newly opened office at Harewood House , Harewood Hill , Darlington . |
| 30 | We note that the most striking finding reported in their paper — the 5 cm difference in average height between men with microalbuminuria in both samples and those with no microalbuminuria in both samples — is based on a small number of men with microalbuminuria , and the means are not standardised for age . |