Example sentences of "[adj] [n mass] [adv] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because there are so many English folk now in every community and we do tend to sort of doctor up the language a bit you know when we talk to them . |
| 2 | 2.1 The first is the move to comprehensive schools in the fifties and sixties , which broadened the ability range of the learners facing language teachers in schools , from the top 30% perhaps in the days of the grammar school to virtually all pupils in the first two years of secondary school today . |
| 3 | Many of the fish species migrate from one river system to another : they can travel 20–30 km upstream in a single day and seeds can remain in their guts for 1 7 days . |
| 4 | The crucial move is to insist that every individual works basically in the same law-like way , with individual variations depending on systematic differences in , for instance , preferences and information , or , more broadly , nature and nurture . |
| 5 | And that will rise to ninety percent early in the next century . |
| 6 | Retail sales here in the US were off 0.4 per cent in March , which spelled bad news for Libya . |
| 7 | There were three people only in the school : myself , the young man and my driver . |
| 8 | Because of the large number of elderly people now in the population it is inevitable that much of the discussion will concern their needs , but they are by no means the only people who need personal care . |
| 9 | We may be sure that many people even in the eleventh century had doubts about this doctrine ; just as St Anselm was convinced that the road to Jerusalem which could be pursued within the walls of a monastery was safer and holier than that to Jerusalem itself . |
| 10 | At the junction of the A6 and A517 is North Mill , a cotton mill built in 1804 by the Strutt family , who provided work and good housing for many people here in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries . |
| 11 | Despite being generally unlicensed these tend to work alongside the regular staff usually in the larger urban abattoirs . |
| 12 | Until the eighteenth century it was common to house two , three or more corps together in the barn , but a later development was the use of half the barn for threshed straw , filling only one side of the threshing floor with unthreshed corn , and the emergence of this practice may have accompanied the increased use of ricks for housing crops or faster threshing by machinery . |
| 13 | Social services bring other partially sighted people to his nursery to show how life can be fulfilling for blind people even in the most visual of surroundings . |
| 14 | STANDING in the doorway of his neat £40,000 home in a secluded cul-de-sac in Brandon , Father John Butler spoke publicly for the first time . |
| 15 | That leaves mothers , children and older people behind in the mad scramble for the doors when the bus arrives , to stand packed together jolted and elbowed for the long slow journeys . |
| 16 | Eddie baited the swim with mashed bread and legered bread flake on a size 14 hook with 2 lb hook length and 3 lb main line to make the capture and added a small chub later in the session . |
| 17 | Any data still in the file buffer is written to the file before the file is closed . |
| 18 | The conventions , or unwritten rules , of the constitution were seen as of crucial significance since they secured " in a roundabout way what is called abroad the " sovereignty of the people " " thus making for a governmental system in which " the will of the electors shall by regular and constitutional means always in the end assert itself as the predominant influence in the country " . |
| 19 | They bring LEA and higher-education staff together in a productive working partnership . |
| 20 | Julian and I have decided that our business is to look after our own people here in the country . ’ |
| 21 | Watch the fish carefully for the next few hours — especially if there are other fish already in the tank . |
| 22 | The recession is hitting young people hardest in the North-East with unemployment among under 25s growing faster than across the working population as a whole , said Steve Pickering , regional secretary of the General , Municipal and Boilermakers Union . |
| 23 | Relationships between two people anywhere in the world can be expressed in terms of a dyadic contract ( Foster 1967 ) . |
| 24 | Drying and disinfection is achieved by chemical means sometimes in an additional stage . |
| 25 | Patients who had taken corticosteroids in a daily dosage equivalent to 10 mg or more of prednisolone orally , or 20 mg rectally in the previous 14 days were not included . |