Example sentences of "[n mass] [modal v] [verb] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the system is fully operational , such activities as accepting keyboarded input , outputting to proofing devices and to external systems ( e.g. Oxford Text System ) , text searching , integration , and any other processes on the system data will proceed in parallel , although different sections of the text will be subject to each process . |
| 2 | We can consider these problems and get a sense of how online multimedia might work in practice by looking at one of the first projects to attempt to offer multimedia online database services . |
| 3 | ‘ Make as much of a splash as you can and the fish will run in front of you , if there is any fish left in here that is . |
| 4 | Or that people may differ in colour , |
| 5 | He proposed a slightly more ‘ progressive ’ political model , and argued that Hong Kong people should unite in order to influence their own affairs . |
| 6 | A naturalistic explanation of behaviour rests on the assumption that one can readily identify ‘ natural ’ ( or sometimes ‘ God-given ’ ) reasons for behaviour , such that , for example , it is ‘ only natural ’ that two people should fall in love , get married , live together , and raise a family . |
| 7 | The doctor replied that ‘ a lot of old people would stay in bed without any cause if they were n't made to get up ’ . |
| 8 | He took it for granted that people would fall in love with Eva . |
| 9 | Although Eva was a bystander on more than one occasion when dramatic and scary incidents occurred such matters were generally dealt with by the African officers who understood the cultural background and could use language and symbolism the people would understand in order to " exorcise " the spirit . |
| 10 | At the Watford Gaumont , which I managed , people would come in dinner dress and they would have the same seat every week . |
| 11 | Four people will appear in court today charged with smuggling 1.6 tonnes of cannabis resin valued at £4.8m after a yacht was boarded off Falmouth , Cornwall . |
| 12 | If present policies continue , hundreds of thousands of people will stand in fear for their jobs . |
| 13 | Office systems provide electronic tools to support a range of administrative functions which most desk-based staff will undertake in addition to their substantive business functions . |
| 14 | Two dimensions of the curriculum as knowledge have now been explored : the ‘ objects ’ of study , and the stances that people can adopt in relation to those objects . |
| 15 | There is an enormous range of substances that people can use in order to change the way that they feel , but the safest and most reliable ones , the drugs that have stood the test of time , have all been made illegal . |
| 16 | The line to take on capital punishment was that what urgently mattered was not the form of punishment , but making sure that people can live in safety and without fear . |
| 17 | It was hoped that a small part of those works could stay in operation , renovating locomotives and rolling stock and that eventually a heritage museum could be set up on the site . |
| 18 | Biologists who keep and study the Stickleback know that salt is required in the water before the species will spawn in captivity . |
| 19 | Culver has estimated , in the laboratory , the competition coefficients among the three species of isopods and amphipods which inhabit a set of caves , and then used the coefficients to predict which species will co-exist in nature . |
| 20 | Obviously members of the same species can live in harmony together and this is made possible by the chemical messages which pass between coelenterates to allow individual coral polyps in a colony to recognise and avoid stinging one another and to signal that other neighbouring colonies of the same species are not a threat . |