Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun pl] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem with recruitment is that a small amount of initial effort produces a great deal of work , and this work proceeds in waves which produce severe fluctuations in activity for the personnel staff involved . |
| 2 | The rebuilding of the town of Warwick after the fire presumably provided him with an initial opportunity , and he was later responsible for a further group of churches and other public buildings ; but the predominant element in his practice was the building of country houses for the midlands gentry . |
| 3 | May we reserve our admiration for the qualities people have rather than for what they own . |
| 4 | ‘ Really , it 's been a terrible season , rain rain rain , you ca n't help feeling sorry for the trades people , they have to live all winter on what they get from tourists . ’ |
| 5 | But what of England 's leadership , batting and prospects for the Ashes series this summer ? |
| 6 | She did this thing for the aids people . |
| 7 | Given that the biogenic character of aggression is established it does not exculpate other sources of influence , namely social and psychological , from responsibility for the attacks people make upon one another . |
| 8 | Another defeat , another low score for captain Graham Gooch , and another pasting for their bowlers as Australia romped home by six wickets left England with more worry as the Ashes series countdown continues . |
| 9 | The reasons have been insufficiently studied because of the reluctance of the ethnic communities themselves to examine the issues dispassionately and because service planners and managers dance nervously round ‘ the problem ’ , hoping that the differences can all be explained away by a statistical artefact such as the ways people are brought to the attention of the services , by claims of racial prejudice in the ways staff handle patients , or by simple misdiagnosis . |
| 10 | She notes that there is a difference between the stories people have been producing and traditional fiction . |
| 11 | The relationship between the HERMS data base and the structured CAD part files is illustrated in Figure 6.14 . |
| 12 | Letters to the editor , including agony columns , tell us something about the concerns people have , or at least which of their concerns are considered by editors and agony aunties to be suitable for publication . |
| 13 | Therefore , the study of atk , in the context of its normal function and in the XLA phenotype , will provide important new information about the roles src protein tyrosine kinases play in cellular signalling . |
| 14 | For example , talking about the jobs people do is often used to practise describing daily routines . |
| 15 | You will learn about the words people use when talking about computers . |
| 16 | For while an objective attitude carries with it a certain distance , and a recognition that what we think of as natural responses such as gratitude or resentment are out of place , reactive attitudes confirm our beliefs about the expectations people have of one another in society . |
| 17 | The company reckons that it maintained its position as the leading supplier of computers to UK education , and established itself as an important supplier to the home market , and made good progress in Australia and New Zealand through the subsidiaries there . |
| 18 | On this World Communications Day , I extend my cordial best wishes to all the professional men and women striving to serve the human family through the communications media , to all the members of the International Catholic Media Organizations active throughout the world , and to the vast body of media consumers who are their audience and towards whom they bear a very weighty responsibility . |
| 19 | When policemen label one of their colleagues with the term ‘ academic ’ it is always a derogatory term of reference , while ‘ college man ’ is another derisory phrase used to define that tiny percentage who gain accelerated promotion through one of the special course or graduate entry schemes generated through the police staff college . |
| 20 | Wh what happened is , Richard was the team section leader , Dave historically looks after the bearings sales . |
| 21 | Some of the stories people had told me in that room would make your hair stand on end . |
| 22 | Born outside the pompous circumstance of the court , she was relaxed and convivial and far less snobbish than most of the Shahs family. , Through the sixties she began to emerge as a warmhearted , rather cultured figure who was much easier with her role than the Shah with his . |
| 23 | Erm one of the problems fish have on this is that they lay their eggs in gravel or something like that and where males have their own nest sometimes another male comes along and er takes it over , hijacks it piracy and interestingly enough what happens in those situations a pirate male will come in , displace the existing male from his nest and fertilize a few eggs and then buzz off . |
| 24 | Sunscreem , those top raving pop stars , return with another scorcher to piss off those Top Of The Pops people in the form of ‘ Perfect Motion ’ . |
| 25 | Unfortunately , being a Sunday , the department had been closed , but Switchboard had eventually managed to contact one of the Records staff . |
| 26 | Now are aware that are losing the agency stuff therefore services should improve generally but this is mostly and the business travel , you know duty travel , cruise positioning that sort of thing , to the extent that erm and two of the ops people paid a visit to last week for a liaison meeting and one thing that I thought was absolutely remarkable that came out was in respect of complaining that they could never get through to anybody in erm in , they could n't get a reply from the extensions and they could n't send messages or anything . |
| 27 | one of the groups people |
| 28 | Surveys show that an overwhelming proportion of the journeys people use cars for could easily be done on foot or by bicycle . |
| 29 | ‘ But the names mean nothing to me because I only take note of the positions people play in . |
| 30 | ‘ But the names mean nothing to me because I only take note of the positions people play in . |