Example sentences of "[n mass] [vb pp] in [noun sg] [noun pl] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | There was no one more adept at tracing and rescuing sheep trapped in snow drifts . |
| 2 | These are the 3% placed in welfare institutions or left at home with parents , classed as ineducable . |
| 3 | Data stored in RAM chips while the computer is on must be moved to a disc before the power is switched off . |
| 4 | So the countries of black Africa have to rely on data sent in computer tapes from the US or from Europe . |
| 5 | About a third are female , mostly Filipinos and Thais ensnared in prostitution rings . |
| 6 | The goldfish is deservedly the most popular species of fish kept in garden ponds and few , if any , ponds in this country will not have had goldfish in them at some time . |
| 7 | For every £4 collected in motoring taxes , less than £1 is spent on roads . |
| 8 | Also the movement of people involved in wartime adjustments , the identification of the Conservatives with appeasement and the ‘ fair shares ’ aspect of rationing all helped to undermine laissez-faire doctrines . |
| 9 | Six Irishmen , serving life terms in prison for the murder of 21 people killed in bomb attacks on two public houses in Birmingham in November 1974 [ see p. 26870 ] , were freed by the United Kingdom Court of Appeal on March 14 . |
| 10 | [ Hereford County Record Office MS b/56/1 f.84 ; Victoria and Albert Museum Library MS L 29–1982 ; K. A. Esdaile , works listed in Church Monuments I ( 2 ) , 1986 , pp. 117–33 ; K. H. Jones , ‘ The Hawkins Monument by Epiphanius Evesham at Boughton-under-Blean ’ , Archaeologia Cantiana , vol. xlv , 1933 , p. 205 ; Madeleine Jurgens , ‘ Quelques actes inédits concernant Epiphanius Evesham ’ , Bulletin de la Société de l'histoire de l'art français , 1960 , p. 175 ; Margaret Whinney , Sculpture in Britain 1530–1830 , 2nd edn. 1988 , pp. 56–60 . ] |
| 11 | Comparisons of species represented in pitfall traps and artificial traps show that the former provide a better sample of small mammals in an area . |
| 12 | A 2pc cut in base rates coinciding with the Chancellor 's Autumn Statement next week has been widely anticipated and Mr Bootle said he believed the downward trend would continue through to next year and stabilise at 5pc . |