Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] [n mass] [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is it not true that the choice for the British people is between our party , which calls for lower taxes and greater spending by the people , and the Labour party , which wants to take people 's money and spend it itself ? |
| 2 | Because some snakes are genuinely dangerous to man , all snakes are feared , and yet only 15 per cent of the living species are in fact venomous . |
| 3 | Second , the geographical breakdown of the official statistics is by police force areas , which do not correspond to the areas for which Census population statistics are available , and which submerge figures for Wirral in the Merseyside figures . |
| 4 | The extreme poverty of the Cuban people was in stark contrast to the wealth of foreign investors in the country , and Castro began the redistribution of the land , much of it American-owned , to peasant families ( pp. 137 ) . |
| 5 | It is a shame that our only access to the experiences of the Colombian people is via the odd journalistic collage , usually lifted from El Tiempo , one of the country 's Liberal newspapers . |
| 6 | Fries made the assumption that the natural lifespan of the human species is of fixed duration ; in his work he takes this as 85 years . |
| 7 | By 1949 only 4 of the pre-war staff were in post in Scotland and of these Lawrie was seconded to help form a geological survey in Travancore , India . |
| 8 | Without doubt the sympathies of the British people were with the Spanish Republican government — and they demonstrated their support with a humanitarian response . |
| 9 | The first three films in the new series were about mercenaries , murderers and adultery . |
| 10 | The final accolade for the sex beast in the popular media is to be linked to earlier fiends . |
| 11 | Needless to say , the condolences of the British monarch , government and people to the President and to the American people were without limit of sincerity or depth , and a search of unexampled vigour was now in progress to identify , find and arrest the culprits . |