Example sentences of "[n mass] [adv] [vb past] [prep] [noun sg] " 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 | Otherwise people just stayed at home and ignored Government encouragement to come into the office . |
| 3 | Ruth wondered why people still came to Wickrithe for their holidays . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Many people wisely stayed at home , and that left one theatre in Cirencester without and audience . |
| 6 | 1.2 Both categories of staff also voted in favour of taking industrial action in pursuance of a better deal . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The still-room people and the kitchen people never came in contact with the gentry , you see . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |