Example sentences of "[adj] of [art] [noun pl] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Already some of the women staff demand to be escorted home after the evening shifts . |
| 2 | She ca n't ever get over some of the things people do , things that happen , every day . |
| 3 | And delighted Liverpool manager Graeme Souness said : ‘ John Barnes is a determined man , and he 's keen to prove that he can keep his international career very much alive , despite some of the things people said last week . |
| 4 | ROS : ( Nervy , loud ) Well , I 'm not really the type of man who — no , but do n't hurry off — sit down an tell us about some of the things people ask you to do — ( The PLAYER turns away . ) |
| 5 | By focusing on some of the difficulties people may encounter we do not wish to suggest that life is nothing but problems , nor to imply that these problems can not be overcome . |
| 6 | Mr Chairman I 'm , I 'm a little bit concerned about er number two er there 's something that is , we promised to reply straightforward written enquiry with without sort of commenting on whether it 's two weeks , two days , or whatever , I am a little concerned that some of the replies people show me that have had from Highways Department , erm , they really whoever writes them do n't go into any detail , I 've had , I 've seen letters recently where , where somebody said it will be dealt with in about four weeks ' time , well that 's okay , maybe they 've good and valid reasons why about four weeks is about right for their particular problem , but they do n't know why it 's gon na take four weeks , they say oh god they should be able to do that in a couple of days there 's no problem it 's an easy little job , I , I feel that the , our officers when they reply they should give some amount of detail and if they give a time span in which they 're gon na put something right , they should say why it 's gon na take that long . |
| 7 | Some of the stories people had told me in that room would make your hair stand on end . |
| 8 | ‘ The music company wanted new product fast before the headster time ended so I dashed it off one afternoon after I 'd dropped some A. Goodness , some of the interpretations people came up with ! |
| 9 | There were n't so many of the prejudices people have about education , or social status , or wealth . |
| 10 | Many of the things people say and write can be divided into facts and opinions . |
| 11 | The notion had not been popular with many of the arts people in the Council , and he recalls one lady saying in a meeting that she would ‘ not give up one page of Beowulf for all the science in the world ’ . |
| 12 | Many of the police series go to great lengths to ensure an authentic feel ( otherwise the companies get shoals of complaints from the policemen who avidly watch such shows , and sometimes begin to model their behaviour on what they see ) . |
| 13 | Erm one of the problems fish have on this is that they lay their eggs in gravel or something like that and where males have their own nest sometimes another male comes along and er takes it over , hijacks it piracy and interestingly enough what happens in those situations a pirate male will come in , displace the existing male from his nest and fertilize a few eggs and then buzz off . |
| 14 | Good advisers will remind clients that one of the reasons people want money in the first place is to gain the freedom to live where they like |
| 15 | As well as how to unpick a faded coat or dress and sew it up again inside out , that was one of the things mrs so and so suggested . |
| 16 | I mean generally they you know , I , that 's one of the things people cut back though is n't it ? |
| 17 | erm that 's a clumsy , and perhaps you might say a rather German way of putting it , but seeing religion as one of the things people do , one of the things that we can understand now that we 're good at understanding history — we can understand how society works , we can understand that a person is interested in religion for psychological reasons because he is a certain kind of person , comes from a certain kind of family , and so from all sorts of angles religion is being understood and the cost is that it 's not such an absolute thing as before . |
| 18 | Unfortunately , being a Sunday , the department had been closed , but Switchboard had eventually managed to contact one of the Records staff . |
| 19 | Alternatively , the case can be modelled upon an actual case in one of the Trials Series ( below , p.233 ) . |
| 20 | one of the groups people |
| 21 | The discovery of the body had made front-page news , in spite of the continuing saga of the hijack , and one of the features staff had put together a hasty obituary on an inside page . |
| 22 | After lunch the Belgian gentleman talked to several of the below-stairs staff and they were severally repelled or enchanted . |
| 23 | Now are any of the sectors people consider match that or fail to match that criterion ? |
| 24 | Have you ever read any of the tales people told in ancient Greece ? |
| 25 | Now are aware that are losing the agency stuff therefore services should improve generally but this is mostly and the business travel , you know duty travel , cruise positioning that sort of thing , to the extent that erm and two of the ops people paid a visit to last week for a liaison meeting and one thing that I thought was absolutely remarkable that came out was in respect of complaining that they could never get through to anybody in erm in , they could n't get a reply from the extensions and they could n't send messages or anything . |
| 26 | Born outside the pompous circumstance of the court , she was relaxed and convivial and far less snobbish than most of the Shahs family. , Through the sixties she began to emerge as a warmhearted , rather cultured figure who was much easier with her role than the Shah with his . |