Example sentences of "[conj] [n mass] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Halliwell Sutcliffe wrote at the end of the nineteenth century that folk came from all the surrounding villages to enjoy the swingboats and coconut shys , and to join the dancing on the village green . |
| 2 | More than 10m went into what some saw as a last-ditch attempt to compete with ITV . |
| 3 | A SNOWSTORM of money threw a city street into chaos yesterday when more than £150,000 fell off the back of an armoured car . |
| 4 | For example , a survey of 1,800 working women in France might show that 38% read at least one magazine weekly , and a similar survey in West Germany of 940 working women showed that 47% of them read at least one magazine weekly . |
| 5 | Ticket sales for this year 's Ryedale Festival have got off to a record start with more than £16,000 netted in the first three weeks and some events are already sold out , says director Geoffrey Emmerson . |
| 6 | Loyalty to the group 's famous brands helped it to boost pretax profits by 13.2pc last year to £316.4m from £279.6m in 1990 , although sales grew by just 2.7pc . |
| 7 | It created this mushroom kind of thing that people stared at . |
| 8 | This general pattern of growth was subject to regional variation and was punctuated by devastating epidemics — of which bubonic plague was only the most notorious — and by harvest failures that were so catastrophic that people died of starvation . |
| 9 | Another reason was that people had to be seen to be playing the management game . |
| 10 | The point I 'm making however , is that a , a fairer way to judge this book , might be to say , not well let , let's reject everything in it that 's Lamarckian , cos it does n't fit with our modern prejudices , a fairer way , might be to read it the way we read Darwin 's works , where there is also considerable Lamarckenis Lamarckism , and say well , this is er , this is an understandable error , given the poor state of knowledge that people had about genetics at the time , and then try and make sense of it . |
| 11 | ‘ I believe our vote would have been very substantially higher had it not been for the fear , the concern , that people had for the prospect of a Labour government , ’ Mr Ashdown said , adding that the election showed Labour could not fight the Conservatives , even in the depths of a recession . |
| 12 | ‘ I believe our vote would have been very substantially higher had it not been for the fear , the concern , that people had for the prospect of a Labour government , ’ Mr Ashdown said , adding that the election showed Labour could not fight the Conservatives , even in the depths of a recession . |
| 13 | ‘ People then had something that we have n't got now ’ , he thought as he remembered the years before the Great War , ‘ And what was it that people had in those days ? |
| 14 | In his opening address to delegates , De Marco said that people looked to the UN for moral and political guidance for a resolution of the Gulf crisis . |
| 15 | That regrettable reminder that people existed outside the Casa Pinar had cooled everything to fast-freeze point . |
| 16 | Why should Willi always make himself look so ludicrous so that people laughed at him ? |
| 17 | When I raised it as Chairman at the General Management Committee , I was disgusted to find that people laughed at the very subject that was so important to women who 've come up here today to let us know the consequences of what was happening . |
| 18 | So that 's what they did at Devon Square , that 's why that was all that , that people came up East Street and then had to go down Devon Square and back out |
| 19 | Commenting upon the teaching of reading the report takes teachers to task for effectively teaching the mechanics of reading but failing in the process to help children recognise that reading was ‘ something that people did for pleasure , . |
| 20 | I mean supposing women 's football did get more support and i wen and i it did become more widespread , more popular at every level , there was time , the resources to do it , do you think the things that people complained about football at the top of this programme er , the bigotry , the aggression , the rowdiness , do you think they would begin to overwhelm women 's football in the way that some of you think they 've overwhelmed men 's football ? |
| 21 | The idea that people needed to be shown from where to view the lakes , hills and mountains developed into the ‘ stations ’ or points from which to see the best views to the best vantage . |
| 22 | After the treatment her hair shone like burnished copper from scalp to tip , such a beautiful shade of red that people turned in the street to stare as she passed by . |
| 23 | With your with regard to erm the tenants and and the contact you had with them , erm would you say that you found that people tended to be supportive of each other ? |
| 24 | People did not suddenly rush into the shops to spend more money on books because the Government said that staff had to be paid more . |
| 25 | Agassiz drew diagrams of the relative flourishing of different families of fish through past time , which showed gradual appearance and extinction — but he must have believed that species came into being and died out at definite times . |
| 26 | They report that 21% withdrew before completing their higher education course , but only 12.5% withdrew because of failure in assessed work . |
| 27 | Nearly 100,000 TR6s were built over the next 7 years and 90% went to America , where it caught on as a winner on road and track . |
| 28 | Nearly 100,000 TR6s were built over the next 7 years and 90% went to America , where it caught on as a winner on road and track . |
| 29 | Large trees grew from the interstices of the stone and sheep brouzed on the edge of every precipice . |
| 30 | At Thirsk a lamb with a broken leg had been put up for sale , and transit offences to cattle and sheep rose from no convictions in 1990 to 15 last year . |