Example sentences of "[n mass] were [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Enemy aircraft were strafing the column and the road was congested with refugees . |
| 2 | Even after the reform of the divorce laws in 1857 , most working-class people were denied the possibility of easy divorce ; in the 1900s petitions for divorce from the working class were still extremely rare , largely because of the cost . |
| 3 | About 1,700 people were watching the weekend display at an 11th-century castle at Pevensey , Sussex . |
| 4 | People were using the bottle and litter banks and it was a pity they were often left in need of emptying . |
| 5 | As he well knew , the people were cheering the symbol rather than the man . |
| 6 | AMV identified the fact that not enough business people were reading the magazine . |
| 7 | The appetite for travel tales was insatiable at a time when so many young people were taking the chance of good fortune in lands newly opened up , often in aided emigration schemes such as Kingston himself administered . |
| 8 | People were cursing the Greenhouse Effect and swearing that it had put paid to surf in Hawaii for all time . |
| 9 | More important , support for the League would be maximized if people were given the opportunity to support it without supporting war . |
| 10 | There 's a proof because so if two people were contemplating the proof of the infinity of primes they would n't be going about it in different ways , erm , if they 're contemplating the proof , they 'd be contemplating exactly the same steps in the same order . |
| 11 | People were saying the union can do something we can fight back and we need to translate that right across the country . |
| 12 | Through their involvement , rather than creating a platform for development , people were letting the government off the hook by attempting to find superficial and limited solutions to deep-rooted structural problems . |
| 13 | If only more people were questioning the Government . |
| 14 | The 1970s saw a major shift in focus and suddenly people were describing the hippocampus as a ‘ cognitive map ’ ( O'Keefe and Nadel 1978 ) or as the repository of ‘ working memory ’ ( Olton 1983 ) . |
| 15 | Declaring himself ‘ deeply troubled ’ by the rise — from 264kgs last year to 392kgs so far this year — he said some people were underestimating the problem because there had not yet been an influx of misusers to drugs clinics . |
| 16 | In his response to Chaovalit 's speech Chalerm said that if people were to criticize the government , then they should clearly join the opposition ; he also attacked Gen. Chaovalit 's wife , to whom he referred as a " moving jewellery case " . |
| 17 | The Foreign Ministry on March 21 announced that International Committee of the Red Cross ( ICRC ) operations in Iran were to be frozen and all its 15 staff were to leave the country by March 28 . |
| 18 | INROADS STAFF were given the opportunity to star in a video recently alongside rugby internationalist Gavin Hastings and Steve Hamilton from Wheel of Fortune . |
| 19 | Two staff were servicing the frying range and changing the fat when the fire started at 8.30pm . |
| 20 | His parents then called from the USA and were given the false impression that British Consul staff were co-ordinating the search , when they actually had no regular contact with the Spanish authorities involved . |