Example sentences of "[n mass] [vb base] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The data show how wealth becomes more evenly spread if occupational , and then state national insurance pension rights are included in the calculations . |
| 2 | OPCS data record only 35% of deaths from liver disease in Wales as being alcohol related , yet in our district hospital sample 67% proved to be related to alcohol . |
| 3 | The smoking data have not bee updated since recruitment . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's been the experience of my chums that offspring break up marriages . |
| 5 | Fish build up resistance to nitrates as nitrates build-up in your tank . |
| 6 | Downing Street 's double glazing must have proved invaluable as the camera corps set up camp and squabbled on the doorstep . |
| 7 | After buying fresh bread she had gone on to the fish market where boxes full of melting ice displayed what was left of the morning 's catch , much of which she did n't recognise . |
| 8 | Most modern fish breathe in water with gills , but many species living in foul , swampy water supplement this by gulping air at the surface . |
| 9 | These fish bite off pieces of coral with their beak-like teeth , to eat the living polyps inside . |
| 10 | These County Court statistics cover only England and Wales and do not take into account voluntary repossessions where the borrower surrenders the keys to the mortgage lender . |
| 11 | THE RUSSIAN and Ukrainian Presidents struggling for power over the Black Sea Fleet may be pleasing their nationalist countrymen , but the sailors at the fleet 's Crimean headquarters feel only shame and humiliation at the spectacle of a historic navy in chaos . |
| 12 | people sit there gambling |
| 13 | When people make up stories , they often start from something that has really happened to them . |
| 14 | People think women who do not want to marry unfeminine , people think women who do want to marry immodest — people combine both opinions by regarding it as unfeminine for women not to look forward longingly to wifehood as the hope and purpose of their lives , and ridiculing and condemning any individual woman of their acquaintance whom they suspect of entertaining such a longing . |
| 15 | Photographic memories apart , most people forget about 50% of what they 've read within minutes of putting the book down , and 80% of it within twenty-four hours . |
| 16 | Its small size may also have hurt it it does n't have a lot of ‘ wall-power ’ , and maybe people want more Rembrandt for their money ’ . |
| 17 | Other facilities include a couple of stuberls where local people linger over beers and deep conversations , and next door is the popular Dorfkeller bar . |
| 18 | 8 times a day staff dole out pounds of corn and the lakes turn into watery motorways jammed with traffic . |
| 19 | Bank staff protest over redundancies |
| 20 | Travelling to polling stations is expensive in a country where many people earn only £100 a year , so wealthy well-organised candidates bus voters to the booths and traditionally nudge them in the right direction with sample ballot sheets with the appropriate names ticked . |
| 21 | Several of the proposals were accepted but , in other cases , subject staff put forward arguments for a higher weighting This discussion gave faculty heads a chance to learn about the requirements of their colleagues and to justify their own weightings . |
| 22 | Some people seek out occasions of hazard , others shrink from them . |
| 23 | When it rains , people put up umbrellas . |
| 24 | While it is a fact that we often eat much more than we imagine we do ( try writing down everything you eat over a period of a week and prove the point ) , it is a fact that some people put on weight far more quickly than others . |
| 25 | especially glad when people put out dishes of water . |
| 26 | I have noticed that when older people put out chairs in preparation for a church meeting they will tend to place them in straight rows and arrange them further back from the speaker . |
| 27 | You know that erm these people Chiddyfort where mum and dad are living and erm |
| 28 | Although people cut down fats and sugar in the 1980s following official advice , there were more fat and very fat people in 1987 than in 1980 , Dr David Buss told nutritionists and doctors at a Royal College of Physicians conference in London . |
| 29 | Some people give more thought to choosing a car or a holiday than they do to choosing a career . |
| 30 | " Do by all means lock up Mr. Preston 's office , " Sara said , " though I assure you we wo n't go riding his safe . " |