Example sentences of "[adj] [n mass] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Strudwick is hoping to hear that the Sports and Arts Foundation will be giving him £250,000 to develop a new administrative headquarters at the Palace . |
| 2 | DUXFORD 's collection of historic aircraft at the Imperial War Museum ( IWM ) never stops increasing . |
| 3 | Among other works of note purchased during the year were a copy of Richard Westall 's Victories of the Duke of Wellington ( London , 1819 ) , comprising twelve coloured aquatints of British battle scenes , including one of Highland troops of the 91st Regiment ( the Argyllshire Highlanders ) repulsing French cavalry at the Battle of Vimiera ; a copy , in extremely fine condition , of R. R. McIan 's Picturesque Gatherings of the Scottish Highlanders at Home , on the Heath , the River , and the Loch ( London , 1848 ) , published by Ackermann and Company ; and a copy of Angus McLean 's Lindigo , the White Woman ; or , The Highland Girl 's Captivity among the Australian Blacks ( Melbourne , 1866 ) . |
| 4 | Perhaps this was because of the dull routine nature of their job , servicing and re-fuelling incoming aircraft at the rate of about one flight every hour that day . |
| 5 | You had to talk to those dear old folk at the Empress and I do n't blame you . |
| 6 | Old folk at the Wesley Court centre had collected hundreds of pounds to pay for the sing-a-long machine . |
| 7 | Most of the surveys showing that unemployed people are less healthy than the employed are cross-sectional in nature ( comparing different people at the same time , rather than following the changes in people 's lives over a period of time ) . |
| 8 | EUROPEAN Community leaders will move quickly this week to reassure the Soviet Union that their support for the future ‘ unity ’ of the German people at the weekend EC summit is conditional on the maintenance of peace and stability in Europe . |
| 9 | While no radical shift in the distribution of the British people at the macro-regional scale has occurred during the present century , the settlement pattern has displayed a dynamism that has proved difficult to forecast . |
| 10 | At this point it should be seen by the ITCA , interested people at the agency and the client , as it is still possible to make alterations . |
| 11 | the wrong people at the meeting |
| 12 | The appellants , who each made repeated sales at the shop , pleaded not guilty to indictments charging burglary and handling stolen goods as alternatives . |
| 13 | African Fish Eagles are not an endangered species at the moment but are very difficult to breed in captivity , so it 's quite an achievement for the birds of prey centre . |
| 14 | Alistair McNeilage , whose parents live in Kilmacolm , Renfrewshire , was part of a research team working on a project to save endangered species at the 10,000ft high Karisoke Research Centre , made famous in the film Gorillas in the Mist . |
| 15 | I repeat , therefore , my opinion that the judge was , as a matter of law , entitled to hold that there was valid consideration to support the agreement under which the defendants promised to pay an additional £10,300 at the rate of £575 per flat . |
| 16 | Booming attendances during the summer school holidays brought in an extra £500,000 at the turnstiles . |
| 17 | We are aware that there are lots of individuals around us , individual people like Socrates erm and erm Plato , erm and then there is the possibility that in addition to these individual people er at the level of there are corresponding to these individual people at the level of intellect erm there are forms of these individuals . |
| 18 | Shortly after 7.30pm it was announced that no support band would appear and Toni would be on stage at 9.00pm , the audience having to combat frustration and anticipation , for over an hour and a half , intensified sales at the two bars rapidly . |
| 19 | What I 've said is that I 'd like to see the existing C P O's become divisional staff at the division that they are working now so that the divisional commander can allow them to stay there holding hands with the new civilian C P O for up to six months if necessary because it then becomes a local decision as to when the when the two have that umbilical cut . |
| 20 | There are 19 United Kingdom-based staff at the Britis embassy and consulates in Brazil . |
| 21 | This is measured by the difference between the expected long-term rates of growth in real sales at the beginning and end of each month and is used as a proxy for profits . |
| 22 | It puts a whole new perspective on the study of the past , placing the lives of ordinary people at the centre , rather than the activities of monarchs and politicians . |
| 23 | But I think that the greatest tribute of all that can be paid to Peggy , and I feel sure it would come from her members and it 's this , and it 's basically what the trade union movement is all about and it 's about representing ordinary people at the shop floor because whenever anybody asks Peggy to do anything for them , to represent them , she 's always the first one there . |
| 24 | Redfern launched a circulating exhibition of recent graphic works at the beginning of the year , there has been a print survey at New York 's Museum of Modern Art , and now a collection of important and fragile pictures dating from the Fifties and Sixties , coordinated by the Tàpies Foundation in Barcelona and already seen at IVAM in Valencia , has arrived at the Serpentine Gallery ( to 9 August ) . |
| 25 | At the south-western corner of the city walls two smaller castles were built , Baynard 's and Mountfichet , but never allowed to become great fortresses ; and they were finally removed from this strategic place by Edward I in the late thirteenth century : by a king whose mighty works at the Tower mirrored his determination to keep the Londoners under firm control ; but who greatly expanded the western end and formed a large new enclosure there for the Dominican friars , who could help him to ensure that no hostile presence met him when he came from Westminster to the City . |
| 26 | Back in 1984 , I won a tiny little goldfish at the fair — my first ever fish . |
| 27 | Others would prefer just to fuel the war — and make a quick buck at the same time . |
| 28 | I suppose your standard Manhattan faggot might look in here for a final white wine en route to a dungeon appointment or death-pact rendezvous at the Water Closet or the Mother Load . |
| 29 | But the true excitement will be in the novel use of the technology to enable treatment of the common multifactorial diseases , even those not primarily due to a genetic defect , by genetic means at the somatic level . |
| 30 | The KSRI implementation is being done jointly with Intellitic staff at the US headquarters of Kendall Square Research . |