Example sentences of "[det] [n mass] are [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those three areas are : education , welfare and health , where over 18% of women in Northern Ireland are working ; this is where we find the women in the RVH ; in clerical and related jobs — a quarter of women in Northern Ireland are in that area ; and another 23% are in catering , cleaning and hairdressing . |
| 2 | ‘ The age structure of our customers as provided by the latest survey is as follows — approximately 50% of them are over 40 years ; some 25% are in the 20–40 age group ; while the remaining 25% are aged below 20 years . |
| 3 | ‘ Some people are at their wit 's end , crying over the phone . |
| 4 | Anyway , there are 98 people on now ( there are more names than that on the list cos some people are on twice for various reasons ) . |
| 5 | How a pop star looks is made too much of , though , the way some people are about it . |
| 6 | This does not mean that they will have to hypnotize themselves , although some people are in fact taught self-hypnosis . |
| 7 | I mean , some people are in a |
| 8 | It is not the Government 's business to start telling banks and consumers what arrangements they should make between themselves although , clearly , some people are in difficulties with consumer credit . |
| 9 | ‘ Some people are like that , ’ said Sam , obscurely . |
| 10 | Some people are like that , Peggy , some people are like that . |
| 11 | Some people are like that , Peggy , some people are like that . |
| 12 | Some people are like that all the time . |
| 13 | Ok , it seems quite a few people are into this fantasy soccer thing . |
| 14 | ‘ Few people are at their best bedraggled and half-drowned ! ’ |
| 15 | The UK Parliament is certainly not widely regarded as being at all competent in the scrutiny which it exercises over public spending , and few people are under the illusion that it is difficult for government departments to deceive MPs and Select Committees about necessary levels of expenditure and unnecessary levels of waste . |
| 16 | Time is money in the City and few people are worth an hour unless it 's over lunch and only then if you 're involved in a takeover bid . |
| 17 | Ahead , another pair are at work on the second pitch , which is steeper and longer than the first . |
| 18 | The pictures illustrating this series are by Andrew Lawson and many have been taken from his book Performance Plants , which costs £14.95 and is published by Francis Lincoln |
| 19 | Now such sales are on open account and paid mainly by cheque . |
| 20 | Adequate personal financial resources are an essential component of community care and an essential prerequisite , too , of dignity and self-worth , but , surprisingly , the financial needs of people with mental disorder are often ignored or , at the other end of the scale , such people are at times even treated rather like children — they are provided with pocket money for ‘ treats ’ but all other financial decisions are taken out of their hands . |
| 21 | The offences committed by such people are at times of a rather bizarre nature and may be trivial or serious . |
| 22 | Such people are to be pitied . |
| 23 | Such people are like a bear with a sore head . |
| 24 | But these data are for fourth-year crabs . |
| 25 | These data are of great theoretical significance within cognitive neuropsychology . |
| 26 | These data are of interest not only because of the support they provide for the cohort model , but also because of a more general point they make about cognition , namely , that we must make a clear distinction between the sequence of processing stages and the accessibility of these stages for consciousness , or for the control of responses . |
| 27 | These data are of limited value in making a genetic analysis . |
| 28 | How useful these data are in revealing anything new about human social relationships depends very much on how we interpret them . |
| 29 | These data are in line with the recent findings on two other enzymes acting in the anticodon loop , namely tRNA ( m 1 G37 ) methyltransferase ( 5 ) from E.coli and tRNA(Ψ35)pseudouridylate synthase from wheat germ ( 6 ) where both of them require that the tRNA-substrates have an intact 3D-structure . |
| 30 | These data are in an agreement with positive roll-like curvature of the GCC/GGC motif , predicted from nucleosome packing data and the 3D structure of the GGGGCCCC octamer , but they are not in agreement with the dinucleotide-based roll angle values predicted for AG/CT , TA , GG/CC and GC steps . |