Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] the [adj] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A spate of poor spawning years eventually produces the big fish period in the cycle . |
| 2 | The following day Proinsias de Rossa , leader of the Workers ' Party , read sections of the advertisement out in the Dail , thereby allowing the Irish media to publish them with impunity . |
| 3 | When Lok acquires this tool , he goes on to compare the new people to things he is familiar with , noting their menace , power , and sheer attractiveness by comparing them to a famished wolf , the waterfall , honey and Oa . |
| 4 | The submarine , which was eventually to provide the best means of delivering the torpedo , was still an infant ; only one or two curious submersible craft had been built and they had not yet affected naval thinking . |
| 5 | Much as I tried to break in several times , they always caught me and would n't let me in to see the poor people travelling . |
| 6 | She would attend to those next for Cleg needed his boots for work , he only owned the one pair . |
| 7 | When … our Soviet rivals recognised they could not match us … and as their own system indisputably failed the Soviet people even as it abused them — then came the turning point . ’ |
| 8 | But he will only attack the other fish if it trespasses onto his territory : if the first fish trespasses onto the other male 's territory the roles are reversed . |
| 9 | Indeed , if you want to find out how it was that Bonn at grew wealthy enough to buy the many works of art that he did , you need only go into the room reserved in the museum , on the ground floor , for his society portraits . |
| 10 | Certainly , on my visits to exhibitions , such as at the Royal Academy , my impression is that the British public much prefers the older works , as it were . |
| 11 | See through his make-up and only transfer the relevant data on to your mental screen . |
| 12 | The trust is liable to £35 tax but gets credit for the £25 deducted at source so only paying the additional £10 to the Revenue . |
| 13 | If you wanted style you paid hundreds for it — so blow the sixty quid on something else — but what ? |
| 14 | These are the inhabitants of the second country contained within Panama : the poor slum dwellers of Colon and Panama City , many of them black ( and many still English-speaking ) , descendants of the Caribbean workers brought in to build the inter-oceanic means of communication , first the railway , then the canal . |
| 15 | You may wish to extend this investigation to consider other issues eg comparing the following 250ml containers : can , juice carton ( cuboid ) and glass bottle . |
| 16 | Not only did the non-working bourgeois become increasingly frequent — in Cologne the number of rentiers paying income tax grew from 162 in 1854 to almost 600 in 1874 — but how else except by spending was the successful bourgeois , whether or not he held political power as a class , to demonstrate his conquest ? |
| 17 | Most of us probably think that the dole is what you live on when you 're unemployed , a statutory right which was brought in to bury the hated means test of the 1930s However , when the modern national insurance system was introduced in 1948 unemployment benefit was still not expected to be sufficient to maintain a wageless man with wife and children ; it was an arbitrary figure which could be topped up . |
| 18 | The inflation led to social destabilisation on a massive scale and so embittered the German people that it undoubtedly contributed to the fall of the Weimar Republic and the rise of Nazism in the 1930s . |
| 19 | We were on to the pudding course by now and I was attacking a delicious crème brûlée with great gusto , while Sally sensibly preferred the fresh fruit salad . |
| 20 | Every Summer , visiting day trippers could be seen enviously watching the local people enjoying themselves out on the sand and wondering how the devil they got out there . |
| 21 | How long has the tank been set up and how long have the affected fish been in it ? |
| 22 | Not only have the elderly people enjoyed the challenge and the attention but their physical strength has improved considerably . |
| 23 | ‘ The Chinese people have incurred great sufferings from Japan 's militarism , and so have the Japanese people , ’ said Jiang , recalling the ‘ severe damage ’ to relations caused by Japan 's occupation of China in the thirties . |
| 24 | Now that the contents of everything have to be described in great detail on the packaging , they duly told the French people that it contained preservatives . |
| 25 | The Prime Minister 's speech was eagerly anticipated by the educational and wider community and it duly received the full media treatment . |
| 26 | This produces the stress of tiring ambulance journeys , the long wait in the clinic and not seeing the same staff at each visit . |
| 27 | I went back , not to see the same people , but I went back , erm , on a a family holiday . |
| 28 | This section does not cover the first £25 each claim each person except loss of deposit claims . |
| 29 | Rescheduling the £950 million of debt does not affect the British Heron Corporation subsidiary . |
| 30 | Section 677 applies as if the capital sum had been paid to the settlor by the trustees of the settlement thus bringing the whole £100,000 worth of income , potentially , into charge to tax under s677 . |