Example sentences of "[n mass] were [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Data were collected every 30min with an Omnidata monitoring system ( Omnidata International , Logan , Utah , USA ) . |
| 2 | For the first 30 minutes after meal completion data were sampled every minute , followed by 3 minute frames for the remainder of the study . |
| 3 | NATO ships were in the Adriatic Sea to help enforce the UN arms embargo , and NATO " early warning " ( AWACS ) aircraft were providing the UN with information to monitor the ban on military flights over Bosnia-Hercegovina . |
| 4 | Enemy aircraft were strafing the column and the road was congested with refugees . |
| 5 | The seven percent of the first wave fund-holders was allocated £14.5 million to set up the administrative side of the scheme , but the remaining 93 percent were given a total of £19 million in the 1991 autumn statement . |
| 6 | In England , as elsewhere , ‘ even though their help could not be counted upon ’ , children and kin were providing the greatest share of support for the older generation of their families . |
| 7 | These fish were left a couple of weeks for the tank and filter to mature . |
| 8 | Sprague-Dawley rats ( Alab AB , Stockholm , Sweden ) weighing 300–400 g were given a subcutaneous injection of 600 larvae of Nippostrongylus brasiliensis in 0.5 ml saline . |
| 9 | About 20 other people were denied a vote through a ‘ computer error ’ . |
| 10 | Even after the reform of the divorce laws in 1857 , most working-class people were denied the possibility of easy divorce ; in the 1900s petitions for divorce from the working class were still extremely rare , largely because of the cost . |
| 11 | About 1,700 people were watching the weekend display at an 11th-century castle at Pevensey , Sussex . |
| 12 | Egyptian security forces have cracked down with increasing force on the group , and a week ago 23 people were killed a week ago when police stormed a mosque crowded with militants in Aswan and raided eight apartments in Cairo . |
| 13 | A state of emergency was declared but at least another 40 people were killed the following day . |
| 14 | People were using the bottle and litter banks and it was a pity they were often left in need of emptying . |
| 15 | As I understand it , disabled people were using the Friends Meeting House for their meetings , but with the pedestrianisation they ca n't very well get their vehicles along during the day . |
| 16 | As he well knew , the people were cheering the symbol rather than the man . |
| 17 | Mr Brown said that in some areas 1,000 people were chasing every vacancy — ‘ the real national lottery ’ . |
| 18 | AMV identified the fact that not enough business people were reading the magazine . |
| 19 | People were fastening a rope to the ring . |
| 20 | He 'd known Taylor had the plague , but had n't realized people were counting the days to his demise . |
| 21 | It , it , it just went on for a lit a short time afterwards but er , but when the war ended course things , some things changed pretty rapidly as you can appreciate but , but by this time I , I was working for Ellwells then on long distance transport and we used to have to go and fetch tractors or bulldozers that had got armour plating on from Dagenham docks and bring them up here and start selling them to civic contractors and the , the Americans were selling a lot of equipment as well at end of the war , and I saw money made overnight like , people were buying the lorries and putting them on the road you know for work and transport firms and all that and they were getting some of them for next to nothing |
| 22 | We were very quiet because some people were taking a nap . |
| 23 | The appetite for travel tales was insatiable at a time when so many young people were taking the chance of good fortune in lands newly opened up , often in aided emigration schemes such as Kingston himself administered . |
| 24 | ‘ I ca n't single out any bad ones in particular — they all performed more or less the same — but a lot of people were taking an extra day , guaranteeing 48 hours and taking 72 hours . |
| 25 | There was to be a very full programme of lectures on the Saturday , and a formal dinner , so no doubt people were getting a good night 's sleep in readiness . |
| 26 | You know both sides were very happy you know it was up with the company or down with the company you know , and I think certainly the younger lads sort of saw it as an infringement upon their future , you know we 've all got mortgages and the o older men who 'd been working since the quarry started you know were gon na see a drop in their standard of living , so I think you know people were getting a bit upset you know that a n a new fella h a new face had come in , and all of a sudden you know changes were being made that were gon na hurt everybody financially . |
| 27 | One widow and four unmarried people were sharing the little house , and still they had to find room for the customers who wanted an ounce of tobacco or a portion of snuff . |
| 28 | But the increase in crime became a subject of hot debate when the area 's MP Derek Foster said people were expressing a loss of confidence in the police . |
| 29 | It was not as though other people were speaking a foreign language , but rather as though they were using the English language as the basis of a code to which I had somehow lost the key . |
| 30 | People were cursing the Greenhouse Effect and swearing that it had put paid to surf in Hawaii for all time . |