Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [adj] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Polo maintained that these people enjoyed a peaceful existence on the Isle of Andaman , engaging in the trade of nuts , apples and rice with India . |
| 2 | In the British context , Wenger ( 1984 ) found that married people were most likely to name a spouse as the person in whom they could most easily confide ; people who had never been married were most likely to name a brother or sister ; widows were most likely to name a child ; and in general , the likelihood that a child would be named increased with age . |
| 3 | When Bell and his colleagues analysed the contents of the stomachs of four of the five ( they did not study buffalo ) , they found that each species was living on a different part of the vegetation . |
| 4 | Credit granters told us that they rarely checked information about employment because they found that many people regarded this as an invasion of privacy . |
| 5 | There 's a very old study by Walker and Guest nineteen fifty-two and I think you might find the findings may reflect the fifties quite a lot , found that seventy percent of assembly line workers erm initiated upwards communication . |
| 6 | The bank also found that young people were less likely to go bust than older people . |
| 7 | Before the authorities get too enthusiastic about reports on a fall in illegal drug use by white , middle-class high school seniors , a study conducted at the University of California found that young people who do experiment with drugs are usually better adjusted than kids who abstain from drugs completely . |
| 8 | ( 1986 ) found that young people admitted to care had experienced and continued to experience during the admission highly disturbing and unpredictable family relationships . |
| 9 | That 's one of the results of a survey carried out by Dr John Stradling , which found that 36,000 people in Britain suffer from sleep apnoea — it prevents air flowing freely to the lungs and results in loud snoring . |
| 10 | Researchers found that thin people also experienced food cravings , but not nearly as much as those who were overweight . |
| 11 | Evidence for 1989 found that just 7% of married women earned the same as or more than their husbands ( Women and Employment : a lifetime perspective OPCS/HMSO 1984 ) . |
| 12 | The numbers attending were usually small but on one occasion the minister ( Mr Dwyer himself , it is implied , ) found that 300 people , some of whom he had never seen before , had gathered to hear him . |
| 13 | But after spending more than £2,500 on a facelift and suffering a few weeks of looking and feeling like she had gone 12 rounds with Lennox Lewis , Fiona found that few people noticed any difference . |
| 14 | But in all cases he found that local people 's blood showed concentrations only marginally higher than national averages , and locally grown vegetables had concentrations within safety limits . |
| 15 | In February 1990 , a Gallop Survey , found that most people did not know how to manage their money , and just muddled through . |
| 16 | The NFPA study tested 7,000 samples and found that 79.8 percent contained no residues , 18.7 percent contained residues within the legal tolerance limit and 1.8 percent had residues above the legal limit . |
| 17 | Following Alia 's call for greater religious toleration , Vatican and Yugoslav sources reported that 5,000 people attended a Catholic mass in Shkoder on Nov. 16 conducted by Archbishop Simun Yubani , who had been in prison from 1967 until 1989 for violating the ban imposed on all forms of religious manifestations . |
| 18 | India Today reported that 3,560 people , the majority of them civilians , were killed in the state between Jan. 1 and Dec. 11 . |
| 19 | Radiodiffusion-Television Malienne reported that 27 people died on March 22 and 23 , but the Agence France-Presse news agency put the figure at " more than 80 dead " . |
| 20 | The Financial Times of Nov. 22 reported that 17 people had been killed since the outbreak of disturbances in late October . |
| 21 | It reported that nine people had been released in January , and one other released on bail . |
| 22 | Save the Children reported that 200 people were dying daily in the capital . |
| 23 | Courtney reported that six people report to Dr Robin Nicholson , the chief scientific advisor to the government . |
| 24 | On Feb. 20 Nepali Radio reported that three people died when attacking a police station in the village of Jaddukuha in south-eastern Janakpur . |
| 25 | The Guardian of Dec. 1 reported that 21 people had been killed since the declaration of emergency ; opposition sources put the death toll at 50 , while government officials said that the number was closer to five . |
| 26 | The anatomists who described and classified species were only peripherally interested in how the organisms functioned within their environment . |
| 27 | De Candolle realized that all species have the potential to increase their numbers at the expense of rivals occupying the same territory . |
| 28 | It took me a long time to admit that , but I gradually realized that many people were grateful to me for sharing the thought with them . |
| 29 | And I mean if they 'd not looked in a paper in nineteen eighty seven eighty eight , and realized that fifteen percent of the fund had suddenly gone missing cos it had you know dropped they they 'd have still got income from their investments , and if they did n't need to cash it , then it would have been no problem at all . |
| 30 | I 'm fed up too but I suppose we should n't grumble , ’ Sarah said and Anne agreed that other people had worse troubles . |