Example sentences of "[adj] [n mass] are [adv] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The published statistics are therefore retained for this purpose , but , as one company commented , their use is , however , so infrequent that it has difficulty in locating the relevant data when they are needed ! |
| 2 | I think that perhaps some people are still looking for the Great White Hope , as they did in the days of John L. Sullivan , the first black World Heavyweight boxing champion . |
| 3 | Such works are normally used for the most unskilled tasks ; insofar as they receive any training , it is brief . |
| 4 | These people are already preparing for that . |
| 5 | They claimed that ‘ voices demanding Pakistan 's withdrawal ’ from these pacts were ‘ increasing ’ , and that ‘ the Iranian people are effectively campaigning for Iran 's withdrawal from the aggressive CENTO bloc , the abrogation of the military treaty with America and for Iran 's return to a policy of neutrality ’ . |
| 6 | Six months later , those people are still waiting for their redundancy payments . |
| 7 | The belief underlying such proposals is that many older people are only referred for treatment at a late stage of dependency when treatment is less effective and more expensive . |
| 8 | In nature small fish are constantly looking for food , and will eat small amounts whenever they find them . |
| 9 | Although American mink are sometimes blamed for the disappearance of the European mink , the latter were already rare before American mink were introduced . |
| 10 | Furthermore , the Angolan people are well known for their friendliness to foreigners and for their placid and kind nature . |
| 11 | In many cases the onset of symptoms is found in situations where water quality has deteriorated , where aggressive fish are constantly battling for territory or where opportunist parasites find a weakened fish and multiply rapidly . |
| 12 | Hannah 's film was transmitted at 10.30 p.m. on Tuesday , 30 January 1973 , to an audience approaching five million — a very respectable rating for a documentary shown at a time when most people are either retiring for the night or thinking about it . |