Example sentences of "[n mass] [pron] [adv] [vb past] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Edinburgh 's Institute for Animal Physiology and Genetics , human genes were introduced into mice and sheep which then produced valuable human proteins , including easily retrievable blood-clotting agents and insulin . |
| 2 | Returning , I found five panicking fish which then turned black and ‘ died ’ . |
| 3 | Butchers who regularly received stolen cattle benefited , as did consumers who were able to buy cattle cheaply and peasants who killed cattle for food at times of hardship . |
| 4 | Asked if he thought the fans were representative of all supporters , he said : ‘ Tottenham has a following of 29,000 people I only saw 25 . ’ |
| 5 | Continued on Page 3 Continued from Page 1 Asked if he thought the fans demonstrating outside the court were representative of Spurs supporters , he said : ‘ Tottenham has a following of 29,000 people I only saw 25 . ’ |
| 6 | Breasts may be more sensuous than bottoms for people who either experienced great satisfaction at their mother 's breast or never had enough of it . |
| 7 | But how was it possible for two different people who clearly knew some basic mechanical principles to have a go and produce answers that were nonsense ? |
| 8 | Obviously Stevie Ray Vaughan , the Thunderbirds and Robert Cray are the people who really got exposed and people started hearing the blues that way , although the Paul Butterfield Blues Band was my first exposure . |
| 9 | A lot of it is a matter of hearing : you just start to hear it that way after a while , especially if you listen to a lot of Coltrane and people who really developed that part of the language . ’ |
| 10 | SD reporters in Lower Franconia referred a few months later to a ‘ tiredness ’ with ideological ‘ education ’ among Party members as well as the general public , and remarked that the winning over of those people who still stood aloof from the Party was ‘ still an unsolved problem ’ . |
| 11 | While the academic debate continued on the sidelines , the people who actually ran most of the risks being discussed took matters in their own hands . |
| 12 | The living room ceiling was hung with bunting , the kitchen smelt of roast turkey , the house was full of people who all knew each other intimately , the videos had been ordered and the sideboard was laden with drink and in fact everyone behaved just like it was a real family Christmas , except that Boy had sex with two other men in the bathroom , and they did n't even bother to lock the door because they knew that no one else there would mind , knew that they did n't have to hide what they were doing from the rest of the party . |
| 13 | Like tonight , faced with the ordeal of going to a grand dinner party with people who all knew each other and were far removed from her experience , she had acquitted herself proudly and well . |
| 14 | Advertising was a large tatty lino-floored room crammed with people who all wore faded jeans de rigueur , with a smell of spray mount , and magic markers littered everywhere . |
| 15 | Also the rates had a regressive effect on some members of the public : e.g. on elderly people who sometimes occupied large , highly rated properties but who could no longer afford to pay the rates demanded since their incomes were insufficient . |
| 16 | There was n't room for two good friends , let alone people who hardly knew each other , to work at the same time . |
| 17 | The Whitbread is a long race full of hardships , so it is unlikely that people who hardly knew each other would not have disputes and in the end form friendships . |
| 18 | ( b ) What do these nouns imply about the number and type of people who supposedly adopted these attitudes ? |
| 19 | For the first series he simply embellished some of the ideas in Raymond Allen 's scripts , which underwent constant rewriting until Crawford , Allen and producer Michael Mills were happy with the results . |