Example sentences of "[n mass] are [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lines of data are of the form ‘ line-number alternative — characters [ destinations ] ’ , and the alternative characters are each of the form ‘ reference-character : confidence ’ . |
| 2 | The most frequent methods of gaining primary data are by the use of questionnaires and of interviews , usually carried out by trained agency staff . |
| 3 | The reductions , the bigger percentage reductions of twenty eight percent and twenty three percent are in the section closer to Knaresborough where in fact the flows are substantially smaller , er are quite a bit under twenty thousand . |
| 4 | These fish are within the grasp of most anglers , quite unlike the 19th century when that great angler J. W. Martin felt seven pounds was anybody 's realistic upper limit . |
| 5 | They recently introduced 2,500 roach and a further 5,000 fish are in the pipeline . |
| 6 | This is important when the fish are in the swim and perhaps ready to bite as soon as they see the bait sinking through the water . |
| 7 | What other fish are in the tank ? |
| 8 | It 's generally assumed that those who forego the pleasures of the flesh are elderly , but a report in the American Journal of Psychiatry reveals that 75pc are under the age of 38 . |
| 9 | 1 Both karate-ka are in the fighting stance . |
| 10 | And because the mass media are at the heart of the processes of communication through which ‘ problems ’ and their ‘ resolution ’ are framed and discussed , they deserve extensive analysis . |
| 11 | IDC says 8% of the corporate sector is now using C++ in some form , a further 20% plan to purchase it whilst 33% are in the evaluation stages . |
| 12 | The UK Parliament is certainly not widely regarded as being at all competent in the scrutiny which it exercises over public spending , and few people are under the illusion that it is difficult for government departments to deceive MPs and Select Committees about necessary levels of expenditure and unnecessary levels of waste . |
| 13 | Two-thirds of disabled people are over the age of 60 and poverty is correlated with being old . |
| 14 | Turkey does not want to fight ( her people are at the moment almost frantically pacifist ) : and , if she can help it , she does not intend to fight . |
| 15 | Tory success in the elections to Anne 's first Parliament in 1702 led Dr Henry Sacheverell to boast that " the Majority of the People are for the Church of England " . |
| 16 | A lot of people are of the opinion that they are a very English band and of no interest elsewhere , but I do n't agree . |
| 17 | Many people are of the opinion that record fish lists exist mainly to bolster the egos of the captors of these huge fish . |
| 18 | New figures show that in the 20 constituencies represented by the Cabinet , nearly 69,000 people are on the dole — an increase of more than 38,000 in two years . |
| 19 | Trained people are on the way , and many of the people that we train go onto work college , other commercial agencies . |
| 20 | As Miles Quest , writer on and consultant to the tourist industry , said in 1990 , ‘ … armies of people are on the move , and will not stop ’ . |
| 21 | And everywhere in the newly industrialised world people are on the move . |
| 22 | In our strife-torn world , millions of people are on the move , in fear or in hope . |
| 23 | Type A studios for 2–3 people are on the ground floor , Type B two-bedroomed apartments for 4–5 people are on the first floor . |
| 24 | And all your people are out the door . |
| 25 | He says these forces will move into areas where the retreating Serbs ( or Croats or Muslims ) ‘ have been protecting villages and towns where their own constituent people are in the majority . ’ |
| 26 | If you walk into a room full of strangers and there is only one person in that room whom you know , you will immediately see and recognise that person , however many people are in the room , because here is something which interests you — your human oasis in a desert of unfamiliar faces . |
| 27 | People can not smell or touch each other , so new devices are needed to give the impression that people are in the room . |
| 28 | Sometimes though dogs only bark when people are in the house , they protect the person , the owner , rather than the building . |
| 29 | The year Lydia had bought her cottage a young person had died and Lydia had been lost for words , as people are in the face of tragedy . |
| 30 | So er security people are in the area trying to stop all these burglaries . |