Example sentences of "[n mass] [vb base] [adv] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | OPCS data record only 35% of deaths from liver disease in Wales as being alcohol related , yet in our district hospital sample 67% proved to be related to alcohol . |
| 2 | People think women who do not want to marry unfeminine , people think women who do want to marry immodest — people combine both opinions by regarding it as unfeminine for women not to look forward longingly to wifehood as the hope and purpose of their lives , and ridiculing and condemning any individual woman of their acquaintance whom they suspect of entertaining such a longing . |
| 3 | Photographic memories apart , most people forget about 50% of what they 've read within minutes of putting the book down , and 80% of it within twenty-four hours . |
| 4 | Its small size may also have hurt it it does n't have a lot of ‘ wall-power ’ , and maybe people want more Rembrandt for their money ’ . |
| 5 | Several of the proposals were accepted but , in other cases , subject staff put forward arguments for a higher weighting This discussion gave faculty heads a chance to learn about the requirements of their colleagues and to justify their own weightings . |
| 6 | Some people give more thought to choosing a car or a holiday than they do to choosing a career . |
| 7 | Numerous fungal species contain both groups of mitochondrial introns ( reviewed by 2 , 4 ) and the variation in intron number is considerable . |
| 8 | Next Saturday , Jackson could be on the receiving end of a hammering from Christie , when the pair meet over 60m at the national indoor championships in Birmingham . |