Example sentences of "[adj] [n mass] as [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As much fresh fruit as you like , any type , but eaten at one sitting . |
| 2 | Generally speaking , psychology has concentrated on the processes involved in dealing with verbal data as it arrives in the individual . |
| 3 | We do have to look at all our pre-school children as a group who have similar means as they grow and they learn and they develop and I hope that we can continue to push for a co-ordinated approach to the whole range of services that we are o offering to that group of children and to their families . |
| 4 | Policies and actions should not be dictated by widely held but largely unexamined preconceptions , since the distorted images which they can produce are to the detriment of ordinary people as they age . |
| 5 | The Pharisees and Scribes would not eat with the ordinary people as they considered them to be irreligious . |
| 6 | ‘ I sometimes wonder whether Mark really knows as much about ordinary people as he likes to think . |
| 7 | But I was determined not to allow myself to be hauled in like a helpless fish as he reeled in his capable line . |
| 8 | This phenomenon they used to their advantage by constructing net traps at such points which caught the confused fowl as they fluttered down to Earth . |
| 9 | He has planted himself and his small company betimes ; indeed , apart from the few native people as I say , there is no one here to give us hindrance in our enterprise . |
| 10 | Apparently a Bull terrier needed six stitches after being attacked by a large pike as it chased a stick . |
| 11 | For the clinical and educational professions ( and the lay notions which derive their values from them ) , their very practice makes it clear what fact it is that you ‘ come to terms ’ with : you have not given birth to a member of the human species as we define it , and to which we allocate certain rights and social roles , but to an object of pathology — a ‘ monster ’ , to use a technical term employed in medical anatomy . |
| 12 | To the north-west of Lake Baikal it was the Evenkis who absorbed Ket people as they advanced westward to the Yenisei and beyond . |
| 13 | The latter sturdy little ships were two and three deep alongside the large vessels discharging their cargoes in a frenzy of activity while overhead the air was thick with gulls , diving and squabbling over the loose fish as it spilled from the swinging baskets . |
| 14 | It is a skill I have honed on a host of beautiful staircases and , before tonight 's professional debut , my most singular success has been at a large hotel in Sloane Street where we just chose Miss London.The marble stairs to the entrance hall are just too perfect to ignore , with only a couple of people chatting on the right halfway down.I take the left hand course and soar down and round the gentle curve in nothing short of majestic style , allowing myself the luxury of a smile and a brief wave to the startled pair as I rattle by . |
| 15 | They were a very sober pair as they set out again for Gore . |
| 16 | And , and a lot of single people as I mentioned , they , they , they do n't come anywhere on , on a housing list to have housing provided for them — what can you do to help them find places ? |
| 17 | ‘ I could n't live as close to other folk as they do , ’ he remarked to his father . |
| 18 | In the final chapter the narrator relates the actions of the new people as they flee from their encounter with the Neanderthalers . |
| 19 | ALTHOUGH relationships with parents determine in large measure our longer-term preferences , attitudes and values , during adolescence it is often relationships with friends that cause most concern and which pre-occupy the thoughts of young people as they grow up . |
| 20 | All you young people as you pass by Pray on my grave now cast an eye Beware of false lovers and their friends I died from poison you may depend . ’ |
| 21 | The movement continued to grow and develop and to absorb new media as they came on to the market . |
| 22 | We must redouble our efforts to help the Russian people as they struggle in an effort that has no historical precedent , ’ he said . |
| 23 | Like any other European colonialists , they were content to rely upon the services of interpreters from among the local people as they advanced farther into unknown territory . |