Example sentences of "[n mass] of [noun] [to-vb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tell the people of Israel to go forward . ’ |
| 2 | Why does not he give freedom to the people of Scotland to move about without dipping into their pockets ? |
| 3 | On economic and monetary union , it would be irresponsible for any Government to ask the people of Britain to decide now that we should adopt , at a future date , a single European currency which will have far-reaching implications for the conduct of monetary and economic union . |
| 4 | I appeal to the people of Burma to economise as far as possible in the consumption of rice and foodstuffs ; so that we may have some surplus to send to a hungry world . |
| 5 | A recent edition carries a joint statement from the Christian and Islamic communities urging the people of Zaire to join together in an act of reconciliation and to support the democratic process which has been undermined so severely since January this year . |
| 6 | Put 250g of Chiocciole to cook in plenty of boiling salted water . |
| 7 | In a letter to parliament at the beginning of June , the Dutch Minister of Culture , Mrs Hedy D'Ancona , made known her decision to allow the deaccessioning of the works of art to go ahead . |
| 8 | The theory is that if museums save on salaries and paper clips they will have more money to spend on works of art ; the reality is that they will almost certainly be saving on the works of art to make up for inadequate funding overall . |
| 9 | Others I 'd just throw on a cotton frock and a pair of sandals to go out shopping . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ You got to have a good pair of legs and a good pair of lungs to go up there . |
| 11 | And do them a nice pair of shoes to walk in . |
| 12 | Too much to expect a new pair of arms to grow out of her ribs , or her coccyx to elongate so enormously . |
| 13 | The choice would be whether to draw one pair of curtains to stack back on the walls beside the windows , thus exposing the corner , or to have two separate pairs of curtains that draw from the centre of each window and thereby cover the corner area with fabric . |
| 14 | We have a pair of tickets to give away ( normal price £50 each ) for the gala , plus special entry into the raffle , the winner of which will be announced on the night . |
| 15 | Be warned , though — AdPro needs a minimum of 4Mb of RAM to run properly , although it 's quite gentle on the hard disk space ( it only takes up 4Mb ) . |
| 16 | Concurrent Computer Corp says it is continuing to work with its financial advisers on a series of initiatives to strengthen further its capital structure , improve profitability and provide financial flexibility , but only if it does not dilute shareholders ' interests in the company , which reported better than expected third quarter figures — in Company Results , page seven . |
| 17 | Like a magician 's cabinet ( on which it was based ) , any Dalek going through its portal would cause a series of panels to flip round , thereby giving the impression it had vanished without it being obvious how it had vanished . |
| 18 | In 1985 , the advertising agency Foote , Cone & Belding conducted a series of surveys to discover how the younger sector viewed these ‘ little nuggets of sunshine ’ . |
| 19 | Ramblers were often trained as weeping standards , with their stems tied to a vertical pole and then fanned out over a series of hoops to cascade down to the ground . |
| 20 | Phase ( III ) will be a series of interviews to obtain more detailed information on the strategic and tactical considerations involved for the contracting parties . |
| 21 | ‘ We 'll have a long series of locks to navigate later — a bit trying for a novice . |