Example sentences of "[subord] [n mass] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 1991 ended with youth affiliations at an all-time high of 360 , and school donations of more than £17,000 coming in to the section . |
| 2 | He has more than £50m wrapped up in the concern , via his 35% share stake , and needs to protect it . |
| 3 | Keep test kit for nitrite ( at least ) handy and use instantly if fish seem out of sorts |
| 4 | Cos people play up to them and do things if perhaps they might not , would n't , you know , but would want to do it , but |
| 5 | ‘ If people come down to the police station with their bikes we will postcode them . |
| 6 | You are an experienced chair you 're good at your job and if people get out of hand you know how to shut them up . |
| 7 | If people coming down from the North wearing British Coal Rugby League jumpers think they 're travelling away from home and the event is rather special , imagine the feelings of an Australian as he goes up that long concourse to the Vatican of the inflated rubber bladder . |
| 8 | " If … if people found out about us ? " |
| 9 | Also organisations like ours are members of the Construction Industry Training Board so for instance if was going along we might get a from the C I T B so I mean grants might be available if people rout around for them . |
| 10 | Unless people go out into the open , the reaction can not take place . |
| 11 | All the time , while people sat back in their new sky-clawing cities , safely enwombed away from the nasty poisons outside , Tech-Green 's brilliant minds developed ever more complex measures to solve the planet 's debilities . |
| 12 | I knew it was only a matter of time before people caught on to what he was trying to do back then ! |
| 13 | About £2 million will be spent on equipping the premises before staff move in during May . |
| 14 | When Roe took over at Coniston he inherited the old eighteenth century workings which had been taken down on the Bonsor Vein , in one place , at least , as deep as the old hand chiselled " stollen " Cobbler 's Level . |
| 15 | When Cleese split up with his co-writer and wife , the American actress Connie Booth , there was uproar — not because of the havoc it caused in his private life , but because the Great British Public was not to get any more episodes of Fawlty Towers ! |
| 16 | Organiser Andrew Gemmell said the rare breeds were growing in popularity , with more farmers taking them on , not just as a hobby but as livestock to help out on farms . |
| 17 | Indeed when times get bad things are often better for them as people turn back to the old faiths . |
| 18 | But for many more the importance of relatives — especially of grandmothers — lies in their availability as people who can be called upon in a crisis , or as people to fall back on when other arrangements break down . |
| 19 | As people go back to normal life , we 're left with the consequences . |
| 20 | ‘ Manufacturers are struggling , but our sales are buoyant as people hold on to old cars , ’ Holmes says . |
| 21 | One can not but be struck by the extent to which traditional adult and community providers such as universities , colleges of advanced education , technical and further education colleges , workers ' education associations and the plethora of service based organizations such as YMCAs and CWAS and so on , are being by-passed as people link up with , or fashion , their own community based continuing education capabilities . |
| 22 | ‘ I think it 's the acoustics of the hall , ’ said a Microsoft spokesperson , as people staggered around with their hands over their ears . |
| 23 | The real conflicts arise when people get on to the cerebral cortex . |
| 24 | Which is why it always surprises me when people turn out to be such bad listeners . |
| 25 | When people came out of the factory in the evening their faces looked white and ill . |
| 26 | You know , when people pull out in front of you on the road |
| 27 | When people set off in a boat to prove whether the Earth was round , they did not fall off so that proves that the Earth is flat , but people just say it is round . |
| 28 | When people go out for the night they like to come away with being entertained . |
| 29 | ‘ Normally when people come in from the outside into the securities business they leave management alone . |
| 30 | ‘ Then I tell you , Mr. Chambers , I tell you most particularly , the money crisis of 1836 is going to seem like a high feast when people look back on 1845 — and ‘ 46 , and ‘ 47 … and more for aught I know . ’ |