Example sentences of "[n mass] [am/are] [adj] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Minor works grants of up to £1,000 are available to home owners or private tenants over the age of 60 who are in receipt of Income Support , Community Charge Benefit , or Housing Benefit . |
| 2 | Over 80% are contactable by phone even if their on holiday in Britain . |
| 3 | Firstly , it must be realised that , whatever data are used to measure the prosperity of a region , these will not represent the whole picture . |
| 4 | The existing radio interferometric data are consistent with Sgr A being stationary in the Galaxy to better than 27kms -1 ( ref. 77 ) . |
| 5 | No data are available on acid secretion by more immature infants . |
| 6 | In the process it will be necessary to examine not only the extent to which geographic issues feature on the policy issues agenda in these fields but also the institutional context which governs decision-making and the extent to which data are available for research and policy analysis purposes . |
| 7 | If the locational data are available in x , y order then , if you are familiar with BASIC or FORTRAN , or some other high-level language , it is relatively easy to write a program to reverse the order of the x , y pairs and to convert the y coordinate so that it measures distance down from the top of the page rather than distance up from the bottom . |
| 8 | There seems no good reason why herbs should not be used at home to cure many minor ills , in the same way that aspirin are useful for headaches , toothache , etc. , and the day may not be far away when a book of standard prescriptions using herbs is universally available . |
| 9 | A total of 48% are optimistic about continental European shares , while only 4% are positive about US equities over the coming year . |
| 10 | They are afraid of storms and will ask for shelter when it rains — invariably they are received hospitably , for folk are afraid of retribution from a gwyllion . |
| 11 | Tickets at £5 are available from John Metcalfe on 0255 675680 . |
| 12 | Tickets priced £5 are available from Surf Mountain , Brunswick Street and all proceeds go to the Irish Himalayan Trust . |
| 13 | Each component has been announced as part of the System Ten announcement and in fact A P T and Gain Multimedia are available in production today . |
| 14 | A It matters little whether you introduce the fish or invertebrates first into a properly matured aquarium , as long as the maximum fish stocking level of 1″ of fish to every six gallons nett after one year is observed and , of course , the fish are compatible with inverts . |
| 15 | These fish are native to North America and in recent years have been widely used to stock artificial fisheries throughout Britain . |
| 16 | The dips in the reflectance curve for healthy vegetation at 0.4 and 0.6–0.8 m are due to absorption by the growing vegetation to provide energy for the process of photosynthesis. ( b ) The actual reflectance spectrum of an object ( upper diagram ) and the spectrum recorded by a broad-band sensor such as Landsat 's Multispectral Scanner . |
| 17 | Tickets priced £2 are available from Sheila Glew on or Mal Heath on . |
| 18 | Prison statistics are poor in quality and , like crime statistics , are published several years late . |
| 19 | It is well known that published economic statistics are subject to revision at a later date so that the current view of where we are now may be misleading . |
| 20 | It should be emphasised that although these statistics are interesting for purposes of comparison , they should be treated with caution because of the differences in the methods of compilation . |
| 21 | The media are full of stories of attacks in which black people are assaulted by gangs of white youths in the street or in which black families have their houses regularly attacked . |
| 22 | And only 2% are open at weekends the most convenient time for teenagers and working people to get help . |
| 23 | If , unavoidably , three people are involved in conversation , it will help if the seating arrangements are as follows : |
| 24 | Or perhaps one might just narrow it a bit further than that and say well let's see how history is going in the first two years , or the O level history course , or something like that , and we would discuss well given that all these different people are involved in history or have a stake in it in some way , or are interested in it , and given that you 're only going to have a very limited amount of time to do anything in , how can you do something that would be genuinely useful to the school in looking at the history teaching and something that would have the support of the people involved so that it was n't threatening anybody but they felt there was something being genuinely helpful . |
| 25 | Because we use more products than most of the world , many people are involved in trade and transport . |
| 26 | Sociologists may attempt to improve on this by detailing specific areas of behaviour in which they are interested : how people behave in families , why some people are involved in crime , why some children perform better at school , and so on . |
| 27 | ‘ In the west it is the prices which are hard to accept and in the east people are unhappy about unemployment . |
| 28 | Apartments for 2,3 or 4 people are available with kitchenette and private bathroom and studios for 2–3 people which have a kitchenette and private bathrooms across the corridor . |
| 29 | You accountancy people are good at sums , so you will immediately recognise that if your own ‘ glass ’ contains a quadruple measure , you are having not one drink but four . |
| 30 | ‘ Some people are good at borrowing but she 'll have to watch them to pay back . ’ |