Example sentences of "[n mass] were [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Enemy aircraft were strafing the column and the road was congested with refugees . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | About 1,700 people were watching the weekend display at an 11th-century castle at Pevensey , Sussex . |
| 6 | A state of emergency was declared but at least another 40 people were killed the following day . |
| 7 | People were using the bottle and litter banks and it was a pity they were often left in need of emptying . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | As he well knew , the people were cheering the symbol rather than the man . |
| 10 | AMV identified the fact that not enough business people were reading the magazine . |
| 11 | He 'd known Taylor had the plague , but had n't realized people were counting the days to his demise . |
| 12 | 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 |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | People were cursing the Greenhouse Effect and swearing that it had put paid to surf in Hawaii for all time . |
| 16 | A report in October 1989 said that many people were leaving the social work profession : low morale , increased pressure and poor pay all contributed to this exodus . |
| 17 | that people were leaving the country. , my friend wrote to my niece in One House and asked her if I could live with her until I got fixed up in a home . |
| 18 | More important , support for the League would be maximized if people were given the opportunity to support it without supporting war . |
| 19 | People were sitting the main point of the chair is is to enable you to write and it 's actually very satisfactory to write in , it 's just the right height . |
| 20 | Were you aware were you aware then at that time that although people were generally poor in in in the area , that some people were suffering the consequences of being in debt more than others , or being poor more than others ? |
| 21 | But you know erm if , if , if you look back to the days of the Raj erm it was a even within my living memory , erm people were joining the armed services or the overseas er er corp and the civil service overseas I suppose , yeah , er at a , at a fairly humble level and would either work their way up or they drink themselves stupid or they get mixed up with someone or they , you know but it was a , a , a recognized way of , of , of going , you know , either join the services or the |
| 22 | There 's a proof because so if two people were contemplating the proof of the infinity of primes they would n't be going about it in different ways , erm , if they 're contemplating the proof , they 'd be contemplating exactly the same steps in the same order . |
| 23 | People were saying the union can do something we can fight back and we need to translate that right across the country . |
| 24 | Through their involvement , rather than creating a platform for development , people were letting the government off the hook by attempting to find superficial and limited solutions to deep-rooted structural problems . |
| 25 | People were feeling the ‘ pinch ’ of economic reform and were not convinced by official explanations of the necessity for hardships while some private businesses were making huge profits . |
| 26 | If only more people were questioning the Government . |
| 27 | The 1970s saw a major shift in focus and suddenly people were describing the hippocampus as a ‘ cognitive map ’ ( O'Keefe and Nadel 1978 ) or as the repository of ‘ working memory ’ ( Olton 1983 ) . |
| 28 | Declaring himself ‘ deeply troubled ’ by the rise — from 264kgs last year to 392kgs so far this year — he said some people were underestimating the problem because there had not yet been an influx of misusers to drugs clinics . |
| 29 | Crowds of people were rushing the other way , towards the conflagration , to try to stem the fire before it spread to the other wooden buildings by the river . |
| 30 | In his response to Chaovalit 's speech Chalerm said that if people were to criticize the government , then they should clearly join the opposition ; he also attacked Gen. Chaovalit 's wife , to whom he referred as a " moving jewellery case " . |