Example sentences of "[n mass] [adv] [vb past] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clearly , given the large amount of data already impounded in share prices , and that few well-informed investors will be induced to trade index futures who did not already trade shares , the increase in information reflected in share prices is likely to be small . |
| 2 | An airline is to change its flying procedures after one of its aircraft almost crashed in Oxford . |
| 3 | In June and July 1989 statistics revealed a fall in industrial production and a rise in unemployment , and product prices and retail sales all fell in June . |
| 4 | Otherwise people just stayed at home and ignored Government encouragement to come into the office . |
| 5 | There is a hint that the older people generally frowned on meetings between Edward and Helen similar to their innocent day at Horsmonden . |
| 6 | Ruth wondered why people still came to Wickrithe for their holidays . |
| 7 | Yet in 1950 four fifths of Turkey 's 20 million people still lived in villages , and practiced agriculture in family enterprises . |
| 8 | The rate is increasing with time ( 1 in 900 in the UK in 1903 against 1 in 400 in 1973 ) ; but this may be an artefact of more accurate recording of the cause of death — before the arrival of modern terminal care , people usually died of pneumonia . |
| 9 | To combat this menace people usually travelled in groups , perhaps from one inn to the next , and they commonly carried arms to defend themselves and carried arms to defend themselves and their property while on the journey . |
| 10 | I asked Michael whether people ever came to England to study music . |
| 11 | The majority of people also voted for parties which advocate a Scottish parliament , but the Government rejects it . |
| 12 | Pre-tax profits slipped overall by 27pc to 1.025 billion Kroner and sales also fell by 1pc . |
| 13 | Many people wisely stayed at home , and that left one theatre in Cirencester without and audience . |
| 14 | That was , of course , not what people automatically thought of Ken . |
| 15 | 1.2 Both categories of staff also voted in favour of taking industrial action in pursuance of a better deal . |
| 16 | Because England had failed to qualify for the finals , the entire weight of the British media inevitably fell on Willie Johnson 's head . |
| 17 | People often looked at Elizabeth with a cheated air . |
| 18 | She had n't had one since … last Christmas , probably , but it was what people often did in films and books when their feelings were in turmoil . |
| 19 | The ignorance of ordinary people sometimes led to exaggerations of the self-indulgence of the Ceauşescus after the revolution . |
| 20 | Dr Bob Holman , a National Children 's Home neighbourhood worker on the Easterhouse Estate in Glasgow , told a conference in London on growing up in the inner city organised by the Thomas Coram Foundation and chaired by Lord Scarman , that most of the 44,000 people there lived in poverty . |
| 21 | The still-room people and the kitchen people never came in contact with the gentry , you see . |
| 22 | Islington can not even benefit from the ‘ dowry ’ system ( money paid by a health authority to a local authority for each patient returning to the community from hospital ) because their people never went to hospital . |
| 23 | In Jamaica the people never referred to DQ ( as Don Quarrie is almost universally known ) as a black anything . |
| 24 | Cowries of the Monetaria moneta species also served as currency in ancient China as well as in other parts of Asia and some areas of Africa . |
| 25 | Worcester chub tightly shoaled on Cleve Lode , where 35 lb possible . |
| 26 | The crucial innings then came from King , who hammered 50 off 39 balls to help the score to 196 ; England needed 260 to win , with time not a problem . |
| 27 | Like animals that dwelt on land , the terrestrial flora also arose from ancestors that lived in the seas , a change that is known to have happened before the end of the Silurian . |
| 28 | The strips were placed in organ baths containing 20 ml of Krebs solution at 37°C continuously bubbled with O 2 : CO 2 ( 95%:5% ) . |