Example sentences of "of [n mass] [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rules stipulate that these boards can have a maximum hull thickness of 16.5cm which includes most boards produced today . |
| 2 | For a yearly payment of £5 he conveyed that piece of his estate to the Apothecaries Company , with one particular proviso : that every year fifty dried specimens grown there in the same year be supplied to the Royal Society of London . |
| 3 | Whizz-Kidz , the movement for non-mobile children , is looking for 300 sponsored runners to pledge either a minimum of £1,250 which guarantees free entry and flight , or £2,250 which includes accommodation as well . |
| 4 | ‘ It is contrary to natural justice to launch a witch-hunt against the members of staff who made these allegations , ’ he said . |
| 5 | ‘ It is contrary to natural justice to launch a witch-hunt against the members of staff who made these allegations , ’ he said . |
| 6 | At its highest point , a turn to the right up a pathless incline leads to the subsidiary height of pike which has two cairns ; from here the route , still pathless , heads due south , passing the three Whernside Tarns and rises to join a wall coming up from the left , this being kept alongside to the summit . |
| 7 | I want to know what sort of people she frequents outside school . |
| 8 | The reason is this : a large proportion of people who exploit new information do not buy additional stock ; instead , they simply do not sell . |
| 9 | During 1981 the Prince had been patron of the International Year of Disabled People , and met yet another vast group of people who suffered enormous hardship and prejudice , and whom society did not seem to care about . |
| 10 | ‘ Management should deliberately endeavour to build these effective groups , linking them into an overall organisation by means of people who hold overlapping group membership . ' |
| 11 | And from Punks and Rockers to the Royal Family , Spotlight gets behind the stereotypes to examine the diverse mixture of people who inhabit this country . |
| 12 | Since 1969 , when the last study of the travelling population was carried out , the number of people who follow this lifestyle has risen from 2,000 to 3,000 . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'M very suspicious of people who take other people 's lives and make them into what they call theatre , ’ Ford says . |
| 14 | Seventy nine per cent of people who make New Year 's resolutions keep them only a week . |
| 15 | Attention is restricted to the non-base category of the response variable ; in this example , it is the proportion of people who attend selective school that is at issue , and the shadow proportion who do not attend is ignored . |
| 16 | Surrey fund-raising manager Jacquie Dakin said : ‘ If many thousands of people who responded last year can have raised that much , imagine what an even greater effort will achieve . ’ |
| 17 | In one respect the Free Presbyterian Church was a valuable resource of the DUP in that it provided a cadre of people who had considerable training and experience in organization and oratory : the ministers and elders . |
| 18 | Delivering 40,000 ice cubes to the minister , representing the extra number of people who die each winter compared with the number of deaths during the summer , the Campaign for Cold Weather Credits hopes to draw attention to the plight of the poor and the elderly . |
| 19 | On June 18 the federal coalition parties — the Socialists ( SPÖ ) and the People 's Party ( ÖVP ) — called for Haider 's resignation on the grounds that his comments " defamed the millions of people who endured unending suffering under the Nazis " . |
| 20 | I object er er yes I would like to , I would like to er second the resolutions , this , there is er , there is er a certainly a great deal of concern within the community both those er who live within reach of , of , of , of car boot sale erm er sites in particular the ones that are regular and also the people who attend them and get ripped off , that we need to do something about er bringing er the er , er at to add , add to law into range of , of the people who of , of people who er er of of people who er sell er of people who sell those goods at these at these functions . |
| 21 | Now I 'm suggesting that an evaluator might , instead of just concentrating on one set of values , deliberately try and look at several , so they might , for example , identify that there were a group of people who felt that history should be taught in a certain particular way for a certain purpose . |
| 22 | By September 1943 ( when Italy surrendered ) the proportion of people who felt mass unemployment was inevitable had fallen to 19% . |
| 23 | It is still unclear whether this is due to some intrinsic characteristic of people who became nuclear workers , or more likely because of the reduced opportunities or smoking allowed by work restrictions . |
| 24 | The Gallup survey , carried out for Realeat , part of the Haldane Foods Group , found the total number of people who avoided red meat , including vegetarians , vegans and those who still ate chicken or fish , totalled six million or 11pc of the population . |
| 25 | Either a representative sample of the population being studied or a judgement sample ( that is , chosen for a particular purpose rather than at random : often it is an already-existing peer group or network of people who know each other ) is interviewed , and recordings of speech are analysed . |
| 26 | Some 95 per cent of people who use peat-free composts are happy with the results , a survey by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds ( RSPB ) has found . |
| 27 | The Birmingham Money Advice Centre pointed out to us that the sort of people who use this type of weekly credit would otherwise often be unable to get credit at all , and stressed the danger of making business difficult for lenders who might be relatively expensive but the only available credit resource for some people . |
| 28 | And whilst it is impossible to state categorically that heart disease can be caused by eating too much fat , in recent investigations it was observed that among the groups of people who consumed high amounts of fat the incidence of heart attack was far higher than among those who followed a low fat diet . |
| 29 | They are usually the ghosts of people who lived evil lives during their time on earth , and are undeserving of entry to Heaven . |
| 30 | A NEW research project is giving hope to the thousands of people who risk developing diabetes . |