Example sentences of "[adj] [n mass] were [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 300 sheep were also found in Gloucester , penned in with broken glass , and without food or water . |
| 2 | In considering a government summary table , it must first be recognized that the raw data were probably collected with no specific use in mind and therefore , almost inevitably , too much detail is given or the format is unsuitable for the purpose in hand . |
| 3 | She had a strongly defined concept of what was Real and what was not , did William 's nan , and some people were just playing at life . |
| 4 | In contrast to the Chilterns , the top people were sharply divided from the great mass of poor peasants who doubtless thought a combination of the two safer than exclusive reliance on either crops or livestock , just as many customarily sowed mixed seeds , such as maslin ( wheat and rye ) counting on one at least to come up . |
| 5 | His published works were normally edited by a friend before being submitted for printing . |
| 6 | When blood was obtained for labelling leukocytes , 10 ml were also placed in 20 ml sterile citrate/phosphate/dextrose solution . |
| 7 | The fragments were blotted , weight and tissue aliquots of 100 mg were immediately incubated in 1.0 ml of oxygenated Tyrode solution at 37°C for 10 minutes . |
| 8 | These aircraft were specially configured for instrument lay out and training capabilities allied to DC-8 operating procedures . |
| 9 | Nine players and two back-room staff were also released by the administrators , who are attempting to save more than £350,000 in 17 weeks . |
| 10 | However , fourteenth-century people were sometimes buried with a purchased Indulgence , and there is at the Ashmolean Museum , Oxford , a small latten figure , not much more than four inches high , of a man in a winding-sheet which might have been enclosed within the folds of the shroud , in the same way that stamped leaden crosses were used up to the seventeenth century , to foil Satan 's attempts to claim the deceased 's soul as his own ; the date of manufacture of the Ashmolean item is indeterminate , but it seems doubtful that such an item would have been produced much after c.1550 . |
| 11 | In covering the notorious Rape of Nanjing in 1937 , a book stated that " over 70,000 people were reportedly killed by the Japanese Imperial Army " . |
| 12 | We have ourselves observed and documented many such cases in our studies of local politics in Kensington and Chelsea , and Croydon , where relatively powerless groups of underprivileged people were frequently ignored by councillors when they played by the rules of the game , and were vilified when they did not . |
| 13 | In addition to the usual interest in old postcards ( pre 1914 ) , good sales were also made of modern cards of which there seem to be a growing number of collectors . |
| 14 | The numbers of elderly people were considerably overestimated in London during the late 1970s : this led to an understatement of the SMRs , with consequent loss of health resources ; it also resulted in a relative over-allocation for personal social services . |
| 15 | The number of casualties was expected to rise because many people were still trapped in the rubble of damaged buildings . |
| 16 | Many people were therefore trapped for a long time . |
| 17 | Palmer , seconded by GLEB to work with NoS , felt many people were naively attracted to the pops because they thought they were easier to do . |
| 18 | Many people were directly affected by the implications of the French wars . |
| 19 | In those days how many people were actually involved on the estate ? |
| 20 | It was also based on the household unit , irrespective of how many people were actually living in the household . |
| 21 | I sat down with the Financial Times and tried to count how many people were actually smoking underneath no-smoking signs . |
| 22 | Erm how many staff were there working in the house in Llaneilian ? |
| 23 | Vulnerable people were now threatened with struggling without the day care help they now rely on , he added . |
| 24 | The types existed because certain basic patterns of animal organization were more efficient than any other conceivable forms , so all species were necessarily based upon one or another of these patterns . |
| 25 | Eleven people were then elected from the floor . |
| 26 | At the same time as doubts were beginning to be felt about Britain 's economic vulnerability , the working people were increasingly organizing in trade unions to try to secure , or guarantee , their share of the progress . |
| 27 | Morbidity information was missing for 5.7% of the weekly follow-up visits owing to temporary absences of the study children or their mothers , but the missing data were equally distributed between the treatment groups . |
| 28 | ‘ Those people were definitely laughing at me . ’ |
| 29 | And so if people had less money in their pockets and they were losing their jobs , what factors can explain why more and more people were actually going on holiday abroad ? |
| 30 | The Scotch Whisky Association ( SWA ) Employment Census , which is based on individual company returns , shows that 15,310 people were directly employed by the industry at end 1991 . |