Example sentences of "[n mass] ['s] [noun sg] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | FRIENDS fed Anthony Gray a load of codswallop during a fishing trip.His fishy tale of finding a missing gold wristwatch inside a cod 's stomach appears to be a wind-up.National and local papers , television and radio crews fell hook , line and sinker , for the 29-year-old Sizewell B steel erector 's story , but the EADT decided to investigate the claims further.Mr Gray found the watch in the belly of a fish which he landed at Aldeburgh . |
| 2 | The aircraft 's interior has been given a ‘ wide inside ’ look with increased cabin width and wider aisles , while onboard systems enhancements include IBM 's PS/2 computer system as a cabin work station , providing in-flight database access via satellite link . |
| 3 | But they are also — as bOb 's name suggests — inclined to be pretentious . |
| 4 | But the opposite prediction follows if C.C. 's neglect applies to the left side of perceptual figures after the normal operation of figure-ground segregation . |
| 5 | You see , Mach 's scheme works only if we 're unaware of the T'ang 's role in things . |
| 6 | Sound travels better in water than in air , and as the fish 's body contains a high proportion of water within it , the sound waves penetrate the skull and reach the semicircular canals without the aid of the special passage needed by vertebrates that live in air . |
| 7 | Even the idea that the mass media 's power resides in their ability . |
| 8 | Neil Kinnock has again declined an invitation to brief the media 's industry hacks at the Labour party conference . |
| 9 | Despite the initial problems of having nowhere to play and no real contact with the industry , outside of listening to John Peel , the space and time to manoeuvre and mature outside of the media 's glare has given Therapy ? a concrete foundation to work from . |
| 10 | Hertz 's order includes 1.6 , 1.8 and 2.0 litre four and five-door models , plus five-door estates . |
| 11 | But Scorsese 's film owes more to Luis Bunuel 's quizzical The Milky Way than to the lavish Hollywood epics of the past . |
| 12 | And yet it still seems questionable whether Scorsese 's work has the range and the depth which would properly carry him beyond celebrity to ‘ greatness ’ . |
| 13 | Traditionally , the people 's singing has been delegated to a choir which is generally paid a nominal fee . |
| 14 | I think they have a cheek to complain about people writing other people 's press releases when they ca n't even write their own speeches , they just take a bit of their leaders and claim it as their own . |
| 15 | The People 's Plan includes houses , which the LET scheme expressly discounts . |
| 16 | But the poll shows 82 per cent feel moral values have declined and 83 per cent think young people 's behaviour has declined in the last decade . |
| 17 | The ‘ ideal ’ old people 's home has about fifty beds , mostly in single rooms , and accommodates both men and women . |
| 18 | The People 's Chamber consists of 400 deputies , who are elected for a term of four years by the people in a free , general , equal , direct and secret election . " |
| 19 | This is an area in which young people 's enthusiasm has been well and truly aroused at school . |
| 20 | ‘ A renewed National People 's Army needs the public and all social forces , it needs the people . |
| 21 | Under the 1971 Constitution , the unicameral 454-member People 's Assembly has 10 of its number appointed directly by the President , the rest being elected by universal suffrage for a five-year term . |
| 22 | In sensual love , people 's judgement becomes distorted and the loved object ( Freud always uses ‘ loved object ’ , not ‘ loved person ’ ) is highly evaluated , and faults are not seen — the tendency termed ‘ idealization ’ . |
| 23 | The Peace People 's work has always included a prison visiting service . |
| 24 | While government policy fails to link housing policy to other social policy areas , local government fails to integrate disabled people 's housing needs into their mainstream activities and housing and social services departments fail to work together , disabled people will continue to be condemned to institutional care or imprisoned in housing which unnecessarily restricts their lives . |
| 25 | Being an extra in other people 's star turns was n't a good way of graduating to becoming a star . |
| 26 | If the popular conception of ‘ class ’ does not involve any rigorous or well-elaborated notion of class determination , it is of interest to examine whether people 's self-assignation correlates strongly with certain ‘ objective ’ features of their economic and social location . |
| 27 | Security police wait for boot as people 's power arrives . |
| 28 | The report also notes evidence that secondary smoke from other people 's cigarette harms unborn children too . |
| 29 | If the People 's Party does badly in the election it may well reject the result . |
| 30 | In what may prove to be the dying days of the Major government , the controversial merger between the 32 Tory Euro-MPs and the European People 's Party fulfils a key prime ministerial objective in placing Britain ‘ at the heart of Europe ’ . |