Example sentences of "the [n mass] [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Overlooking the causal nature of meaning with respect to usage leads here to obvious circularity within the formal framework however : to is first defined as necessary to support a clausal complement with no discussion of the data which contradict this postulate ( cf She helped lift him out of the bed ; You 've missed things . |
| 2 | To counteract difficulties in collection and methodological evaluation of the data we used several refinements of the method , including designation of a central data coordinator and use of a simple 10 point ( rather than a continuous ) scale . |
| 3 | I 've been using Lotus 1-2-3 to draw various graphs from the data I collect each week . |
| 4 | It was in the shape of a V with the entrance at the point of the V. We covered both trenches with large pieces of wood scrounged from the back garden of Brigade H.Q On top of the wood were placed thick pieces of turf which acted as very good camouflage . |
| 5 | Inside the aircraft you do internal checks . |
| 6 | First Division strugglers County were trying to recoup most of the £225,000 they paid eight months ago to prise Wilson from Stamford Bridge . |
| 7 | They had never drunk more than a couple of beers each , never raised their voices , and always complimented Trent on the fish he grilled each evening . |
| 8 | The 58% who identified less dependence on farm income as a benefit represented those for whom the farm provided a considerable proportion of total income but which could not provide a living income on its own . |
| 9 | The £50,000 it raised last year will help to pay for a researcher at the Department of Cancer Studies at Birmingham University . |
| 10 | The people who attend those centres can still live in their own homes because of the support staff who work from those resource centres . |
| 11 | Housing policies thus continue to be concerned more with bricks and mortar than the needs of the people who inhabit rural areas , let alone with considering how these policies redistribute the life-chances of the rural population . |
| 12 | The people who inhabit this world are people like us , people who pass us in the street . |
| 13 | Our dramatis personae are the people who inhabit these places and the people who speak about them in various public ways . |
| 14 | Many of the people who seek these kinds of help are those who , while living and working in ( apparently ) normal circumstances , find themselves crippled by unusually strong injunctions . |
| 15 | The people who owned dark-coloured Orions were still being interviewed . |
| 16 | The evidence of the Users ' Survey of the Royal Commission on Legal Services suggested that three quarters of the people who sought legal advice had received no help from people outside their household on the matter in question . |
| 17 | In addition to spouses the people who make such claims are : former spouses who have not remarried ; children ; people who were treated as children of the deceased ; any other person ( relative or not ) who was being maintained financially by the deceased at the time of his or her death ( Cretney , 1984 , pp. 702–7 ) . |
| 18 | The scheme will recognize achievements but , even more important , it will show the value we place on the people who make these improvements happen . ’ |
| 19 | The people who make these panels are closely related to estate agents , in other words they are a lower life-form . |
| 20 | ‘ I am very proud of what the film has said — and by saying this I could possibly lose a lot of work from the people who make glamorous war films , ’ he admitted . |
| 21 | I do n't think the people who advocate these policies understand that you have every wish to put the decision off . |
| 22 | We have asked the people who constructed this building to take over the theatre in January until March . |
| 23 | The people who had more experience used to teach me lots of things . |
| 24 | So why do n't we reply to the people who put this suggestion that in reprinting it 'll be taken into account but there are some reasons that we ca n't follow it completely and that , two chief of which are different , where colour is used for coding and erm , secondly what Richard has just said . |
| 25 | We ought to start speaking in Spanish so the people who read this dictionary do n't understand it |
| 26 | It owes its unique status to the fact that the people who developed modern science and in many other ways created the modern world community had acknowledged the supremacy of gold since prehistoric times . |
| 27 | Nevertheless , the people who voiced such sentiments were " less bewitched by the magic of the Caudillo " than the previous generation of regime supporters . |
| 28 | And the people who tell these stories — are their lives any better than mine ? ’ |
| 29 | The original idea behind Compacts was to redress the balance , to provide access to quality jobs for the people who lived next door . |
| 30 | I do n't still have it , no , no it had got knocked about a bit , you know , being moved hither and thither and the other people have had it a bit as well as us , because we bought it from the people who lived next door when they left you see , cos when we started in here , we did n't have any carpets on these floors or under here it 's brown Marley tiling and I can still show you that |