Example sentences of "[n mass] are [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rare welsh blackhaired sheep are currently in lamb and vulnerable to predators . |
| 2 | Pilots learning to fly the very docile 3-axis control microlight aircraft are also at risk . |
| 3 | Yet longer term the shares at 110p are surely worth backing . |
| 4 | All of which gives one seriously to think that there must be many another way in which hearing folk are completely at sea in their ideas about what is right and proper for the deaf . |
| 5 | The idea of a siege as a ritual conducted according to well-defined rules is clearly illustrated by the answer of the commander of the Spanish garrison at Gaeta in southern Italy when faced in the 1730s with an Austrian demand for surrender : ‘ It is not yet time , since no batteries have been formed and no cannon are yet in place which would be a cause for surrender . |
| 6 | When the fish are well on feed I will put one rod away and change to a butt-indicator which allows me to fish more quickly and efficiently . |
| 7 | All fish that actually have a swimbladder , are prone to this disorder , but it seems some species particularly the fancy varieties of ornamental fish are especially at risk , in particular goldfish . |
| 8 | Pre-packed filtration systems and the growing emphasis on high-tech media are both in danger of making us forget the very important role that floss — and better still , a properly bonded filter mat — can play in … raising Zebra Finches . |
| 9 | Pre-packaged filtration systems , and the growing emphasis on high tech media are both in danger of making us forget the very important role that floss , and better still a properly bonded filter mat can play in filtration . |
| 10 | Such people are effectively under house arrest . |
| 11 | Because of the added pressures that often occur at work and in the family at midlife , people are particularly at risk of increasing their drinking at this stage . |
| 12 | Well , just concerned about the usual thing that obviously many people are away on holiday then , er I I 'm wondering if th anyone anticipates any particular problems this year , or if anyone thinks we ought to do anything by way of special arrangements ? |
| 13 | Well I do n't expect they will , but er I mean if a number of them were interested enough , I mean people are away on holiday at that time , but , if we thought , if we got the response we could , what do you think ? |
| 14 | The next one is er got a meeting on it er I think the airlines are going on a very much a co- ordinated thing er I think most people are probably in agreement with this size eight exemption , make a group specific because really the idea when they put this original proposal in about the size of aircraft was to protect things like the and troops that are shall we say and I think most people would go for that line of thinking because as put in there , why the hell should something again on Cambridge when we ca n't on Stansted but it was really designed to protect certain things . |
| 15 | Although statistics do not explain why people are increasingly in debt they do explain why ‘ negotiating debt ’ enquiries have increased by 330 per cent over the last three years in Scottish CABx . |
| 16 | As with bites from other venomous animals , young and elderly people are most at risk ; and even if a bite is not fatal , it may cause massive tissue damage , so that hospitalisation is often necessary . |
| 17 | Observation suggests that young people are most at ease and most open with adults who treat them ‘ casually ’ and as equals , who do not indulge them , act in a condescending way , or look upon them as something ‘ special ’ . |
| 18 | I wonder why people are here on earth . |
| 19 | On further thought it is soon evident that it is not as easy as that , because the same people are not at church every week , some come more than once on Sunday and will , therefore , be counted twice , and there is an attendance fluctuation depending on the state of the weather and the time of year ! |
| 20 | Although honey supplies could be affected if the infestatation spreads , people are not at risk , experts say . |
| 21 | There is always a hard core of trusty stalwarts on which we can depend but most people are not by nature volunteers . |
| 22 | Estate cars capable of carrying seven or even eight people are always in demand second-hand — especially Volvos . |
| 23 | Systems may be evil but people are never beyond redemption . |
| 24 | By the time of the second or third assessment , if people are still at home the typical situation involves a mixture of two or more services , such as home help , meals-on-wheels , nursing , day care , and so on . |
| 25 | However some people are more at risk than others . |
| 26 | However some people are more at risk than others . |
| 27 | Fit people are more at risk from hypertrophic cardiomyopathy . |
| 28 | I think where people are more at risk is where they 've gone for TESSAs in th er you know that 's the tax-exempt savings plan , and they 've chased the rate through the papers you know the erm and they see that the s the Wolverhampton Building Society or the Tipton and |
| 29 | And people are more into foam baths and that sort of thing |
| 30 | He questions , for example , the idea that the only reason why people are out of work is that they lack skills . |