Example sentences of "[n mass] [that] [verb] [adv] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although this was an extreme case , it is by no means unique and practically every university teacher who has supervised an undergraduate dissertation will recognize the problem of trying to write a dissertation backwards ; that is to say , taking the data that have already been collected and then trying to find some hypothesis which they can be used to test . |
| 2 | RUSTLERS will get the trots if they eat two stolen sheep that had just been given de-worming chemicals , Northumberland police warned . |
| 3 | Many had been the voyages of discovery she had made in this — the most powerful spacecraft that had never been built , and never will be . |
| 4 | It 's an interesting situation that you alluded to , that people that win wars , on the whole , given enough time , are regarded as ‘ all right ’ , whereas people that lose often are cast in the role of being baddies . |
| 5 | The other 24 films were distractors , the film from each pair that had not been seen by the subject before . |