Example sentences of "[n mass] [vb base] [verb] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again the data seem reassuring in that in 1979 , 27% of residents in public sector beds were defined as high dependency patients compared with 22% in the private sector ; in 1990 the proportions were 26% and 29% respectively . |
| 2 | A number of vintage aircraft have crashed in recent years … so are old planes unsafe : |
| 3 | The world war one aircraft have starred in dozens of films like Indiana Jones and Aces High . |
| 4 | Infantry tend to march in deep blocks with as many ranks as possible . |
| 5 | erm I also think that people will use the fact that people are staying away , or have stayed away , because of the Gulf as a sort of excuse for people not coming and not really get down to the roots of maybe , you know , why are n't people , why do n't people want to stay in British hotels , why do n't people want to stay in London Hotels ? |
| 6 | Some people manage to live in this virtuous way for a short time ; the very rare person for years . |
| 7 | Fifty quid note ripped in half , oh no ! |
| 8 | People respond to stress in different ways , some smoke , some drink alcohol , and some increase and decrease their food consumption . |
| 9 | And people do live in other parts of the area , and they need telephones — from what I 've seen of the place they 'll be about the main link with the outside world . |
| 10 | Two inches on my hair and I look as if I 've had my face thinned and people start speaking in hushed voices in my presence . |
| 11 | One set of writers , the Chicago school of urban sociologists writing in the 1920s and 1930s , argued that , as the population of towns grows , there is an increased specialization of people into different economic positions , and that these different groups of people come to live in different sections of the town . |
| 12 | Suggest several reasons why you think many people prefer to live in southern England and near London . |
| 13 | It 's been enormously successful because we 've done it on an activist basis so that activists have met one another , all those prejudices and all those stereotypes have immediately vanished as soon as people have stayed in one another 's homes and realized that people have the same problems , they have the same , they have the same problems and the same difficulty er as difficulties as we do . |
| 14 | Here it is important to know ( a ) whether male and female ideals diverge : whether , that is , the moral outlook people have depends in some causally related way on whether they are male or female , and ( b ) whether the ideals themselves are gender-relative : that is to say , whether what is good in a woman or right for a woman might not be bad in a man , or wrong for a man , and vice versa . |
| 15 | Yes , it matters far more than most people have grasped in this trivialised campaign . |
| 16 | ‘ People have changed in that they no longer seem to be quite so worried about pure sexual betrayal . |
| 17 | People have died in such circumstances where a dog has leapt into the sea , encountered difficulties and then its owner has been swept away while trying to rescue their pet . |
| 18 | On September 2 , tens of thousands of South Africans of all races observed a minute 's silence at noon in a demonstration of revulsion at the violence in which 17,000 people have died in eight years . |
| 19 | General KV Krishna Rao , a former army chief , replaces Girish Saxena to co-ordinate anti-terrorist operations by the army and paramilitary forces and organise elections in the state , where around 6,000 people have died in militant-related violence over the past three years . |
| 20 | Officials say over 6,000 people have died in militant related killings over the past three years . |
| 21 | Government figures show that 10,000 people have died in drink-drive accidents in the past 10 years . |
| 22 | More than 1,300 people have died in separatist fighting in the last three years for independence for Turkey 's estimated nine million Kurds . |
| 23 | Seymour-Ure 's detailed study of the part the mass media have played in British politics contains a considered summary , and clarification , of the concepts of ‘ effect ’ and ‘ impact ’ . |
| 24 | Octopi breed in solitary pairs while squid prefer to collect in huge aggregations producing masses of eggs in sticky clusters strewn unprotected on the open sea bed . |
| 25 | Their rapidity of evolution is well known : dozens of species have evolved in African fresh water lakes within the last million years . |
| 26 | They have found that algae are thriving on nutrients from sewage , farm runoff and factory waste : when they die they drift to the bottom and consume the available oxygen ; water hyacinths clog the shallows , reducing the light and oxygen reaching the area where many of the native fish species live ; in the past the fish acted as a check on the algae , but more than 400 species have disappeared in recent years ; one culprit is considered to be the Nile perch , a large fish introduced in the 1950s . |
| 27 | Here the cast of the children 's series become embroiled in various adventures , including a cross-Channel trip in which Dougal gets impounded . |