Example sentences of "[n mass] [verb] [that] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now I do n't think many people realized that asking for the maintenance of standards , rather than perhaps the changing of standards , was asking for something that was almost diametrically opposed to asking for an educational system that was more geared towards preparing children for adult life and productive work . |
| 2 | Some people say that trotting on the roads helps harden the horse 's legs while others maintain that too much trotting mean too much concussion on legs and feet ; I follow the latter view and so we stayed in walk with the occasional gentle trot uphill . |
| 3 | It was the beginning of ‘ a day in the life of a Stoddard Templeton representative ’ , one of the seventeen in the sales force that stretch throughout the country , each of whom would be following a similar routine . |
| 4 | Then you would n't have people thinking that going to a Phish concert means you have to put up with the smell of somebody who did n't do very well at school . |
| 5 | THE United States yesterday ordered a quick reaction force into the southern Somali port of Kismayu to investigate militia fighting that led to the suspension of national reconciliation talks in Addis Ababa . |