Example sentences of "[det] [n mass] [conj] [adv] [vb base] " in BNC.

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1 Detailed experimental analyses of wing-movements during flight are available for only a few species and probably differ in different insects ( Weis-Fogh , 1956a , 1956b ; Jensen , 1956 ; Jensen and Weis-Fogh , 1962 ; Nachtigall , 1966 ; Neville , 1960 ; Vogel , 1966–67 ) .
2 Bright rays have not yet been darkened by these means and thus represent ejecta from craters of relatively recent origin .
3 All fish that actually have a swimbladder , are prone to this disorder , but it seems some species particularly the fancy varieties of ornamental fish are especially at risk , in particular goldfish .
4 A Victorian theme would attract many people and possibly put money back into council coffers .
5 ‘ All seated stadia will put the game beyond many people and inevitably lead to a back door ban on away fans as capacities are drastically reduced . ’
6 According to Philo of Alexandria , a first-century Graeco-Judaic philosopher who wrote many works that still survive , including commentaries on the Old Testament , fifty was regarded as the holiest of numbers and ‘ the principle of the generation of the universe ’ ( De vita contemplativa , 65 ) .
7 little departments within the store those people or just put on
8 This applies most obviously to inheritance , but also the law has been used to regulate financial support in families in a different way , namely through the poor Law which has applied to many more people than ever have been affected by inheritance .
9 As subsequently printed , the purpose of aid programmes in Southeast Asia was ‘ to demonstrate that the local national governments are able to bring benefits to their own people and thereby build political support , especially among the rural population ’ , or in the words of the Country Report prepared for the director of the Mutual Defense Assistance Program : ‘ to ensure the existence of governments … which represent the legitimate nationalist aspirations of those Indo-Chinese people who do not desire to see communist-orientated governments in Indo-China ’ .
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