Example sentences of "[n mass] [prep] [noun prp] [verb] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then take a limiting case : if nobody but the original painter or painters of the great roof bison of Altamira had ever seen this work ( and comparable work may still be lying undiscovered ) , would any of us wish , on our first sight of it , to deny its status as art because it had not been consciously exhibited ? |
| 2 | The Dreghorn barracks in Edinburgh has just undergone a major refurbishment programme as well as having a new wing built . |
| 3 | ‘ Headquarters in Dublin has OK 'd it , ’ Hardy had assured him , but Denis did not believe that , either . |
| 4 | ‘ We know the people of Europe do n't want this . |
| 5 | Does the Minister recognise that the people of Wolverhampton do not regard the Secretary of State for the Environment as environmentally benign , certainly over the problems that they face with the new standard spending assessment announced in the past few days — |
| 6 | If the people of Sussex did not support the church in the middle ages with overmuch piety , nor did they reject it openly . |
| 7 | ‘ The people of Philadelphia do n't want this type of film , ’ declared its District Attorney , ‘ It 's dirt for dirt 's sake . ’ |
| 8 | Her pre-emptive and impressive words to a senior politician were ‘ The people of Hampstead do n't want an actress , they want a member of parliament . ’ |
| 9 | It is important to be clear that the people of Denmark did not vote for a modification of the Treaty , as is sometimes suggested . |
| 10 | The people of Somalia have already had to wait too long . |
| 11 | It 's obvious that the people of Skegness do not want to give . |
| 12 | But while they 're saving bus fares and travelling in the comfort of a car , the people of Stroud do n't care how long the war goes on . |
| 13 | The people of Wales do not take kindly — |
| 14 | The people of Wales do not believe the right hon. Gentleman 's protestations about the so-called council tax . |
| 15 | THE people of Castlerock have often wondered when the horror of sectarian slaughter would come to their peaceful , seaside village . |
| 16 | The people of Haworth came out to watch us . |
| 17 | If the people of Antigua had not seen the victory they wanted , they had at least enjoyed some good fighting cricket . |
| 18 | As for the meeting , it wo n't make a blind bit of difference and the people of Darlington do n't care anyway . |
| 19 | We have seen that most people with IBS do not consult doctors and those who do may have reasons other than the symptoms themselves . |
| 20 | While the King found it convenient to have a source of income that Parliament could not touch or question , people in England did not reckon the advantages of colonies in terms of the grants of revenue that they could make . |
| 21 | Charles was not inclined to look too hard at what he was giving away in the charters he issued , and he issued two charters , one to the Earl of Carlisle and one to Sir William Courteen , which covered the same islands , probably because people in England did not know much about the geography of the area and possibly did not much care . |
| 22 | It may be that few people in Japan have yet made this connection , or realise the sheer scale of the catastrophe in Africa . |
| 23 | Consider the following exchange between an opponent of nuclear waste dumping and a representative of the firm which had been authorized to do the dumping : " Ninety thousand people in Bedfordshire have already signed a petition saying no to the dump . |
| 24 | Yet when they started out few people in Britain had ever heard of them and even now not much is known about their ideas on marketing and how they put them into effect . |
| 25 | On the other hand , people in Britain grew increasingly impressed by the success of the Soviet troops on the eastern front . |
| 26 | In another passage evocative of past attempts to play the race card , Mr Tebbit wrote that ‘ most people in Britain did not want to live in a multicultural , multiracial society , but it has been foisted on them ’ . |
| 27 | It is surprising that some people in Liverpool chose not to pay their community charge , when they were urged not to do so by Labour Members of Parliament ? |
| 28 | We do n't hear enough about South Africa and the people In Darlington do n't care enough about the situation . |
| 29 | More than 8,000 people in Meirionnydd have already come out in support of the campaign , and their cards will now be sent to the Welsh Office in batches of between 600 and 700 . |
| 30 | That is why people in Australia do n't fall off the world . |