Example sentences of "[n mass] [vb base] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In urban areas in Britain , over 37 per cent of all journeys are made door-to-door on foot , yet official data continue to stress that walking only accounts for three per cent of all mileage . |
| 2 | These data do lend some support to the prevailing public opinion . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , quantitative data do provide some guide to changes in the subject balance of first degree courses over recent years . |
| 4 | There is a straightforward relationship between the resolution of a particular type of screen and the amount of data need to support that resolution . |
| 5 | It is a good idea to turn the cannon round to indicate this . |
| 6 | Leaving aside the famous names , which will inevitably be more costly , great numbers of obscure and humble folk have chosen this friendly and attractive method of identifying their precious books and have thereby secured a small niche in the history of bibliophily . |
| 7 | The Headquarters team doing all the planning and Districts taking over once a project |
| 8 | There are two known periods when fish tend to feed more than any other time in the summer months . |
| 9 | In the community tank where the decor consists of numerous caves made from rockwork , with a good depth of gravel to act as a filter medium , and where the fish tend to dig less than in a tank especially set up for breeding , then undergravel filtration will be adequate once the biological action in the gravel has become firmly established . |
| 10 | Use a fish slice to do this , as the pastry is very floppy . |
| 11 | I 'm selling the fish tank to get some money |
| 12 | Some deep-sea fish have developed another solution . |
| 13 | Fish have overcome this difficulty by having almost spherical lenses . |
| 14 | Once the two fish have accepted each other , a pseudospawning will take place where no eggs will be produced . |
| 15 | Recent Government statistics seem to bear this out . |
| 16 | Some statistics do back this up . |
| 17 | In a quiet moment our Guatemalan guide said that many people fear torture more than death . |
| 18 | ‘ I got a bit carried away but people tend to do that until they become politically aware , ’ he says . |
| 19 | and the final year I think there 's sort of less on the timetable but people tend to do more work for it and do a project as well but in the , in the first year erm you know it 's not that difficult to , to pass it erm er and there are always the , the , the referred papers in September so if you 're , if you 're keen |
| 20 | Usually religious people tend to see these as different , Sri Ramana 's being an experience of enlightenment and awareness of the Oneness of being , whilst St Francis 's conveyed a sense of communion with God — a sense of a Presence revealing itself . |
| 21 | People tend to invest more time deciding on a house purchase or what car to buy than deciding what to do with their lives and how to develop themselves . |
| 22 | With Puffed Wheat an ounce would actually overflow in many bowls , so people tend to serve less than an ounce . |
| 23 | You might very well say that you were the greatest law lecturer in the world , because people tend to say these things about themselves . |
| 24 | People tend to remember those facts that |
| 25 | To a large extent , however , Wright thinks people tend to refresh each other . |
| 26 | 250 They 've become accustomed What they 're forgetting is that this fits in with the stated local plan and with original proposals set out in 1989 which is n't so long ago but people tend to forget that sort of thing 328 |
| 27 | You can also draw this , and people tend to forget this one . |
| 28 | That is , people tend to forget either in a motivated way , or accidentally , people will tend to minimise or trivialise the abuse to which they 've been subject in some cases because maybe saying that you 've been sexually abused as a child and that is why you 're so screwed up at the moment um that 's not necessarily a very self-benefiting thing to say . |
| 29 | Koontz , O'Donnell and Weihrich formulate the principle that ‘ since people tend to follow those whom they see as a means of satisfying their own personal goals , the more managers understand what motivates their subordinates and how these motivations operate , and the more they reflect this understanding in carrying out their managerial actions , the more effective leaders they are likely to be . ’ |
| 30 | Overweight people tend to consume less fibre than their normal-weight counterparts . |