Example sentences of "[n mass] are [vb pp] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over 1,000 World War Two era aircraft are listed with their military serial number/civil registration , status ( airworthy , being restored or in storage ) , current owner and location , plus a numerical listing of the examples of each type that are on permanent display . |
| 2 | One useful function of hypotheses is that they help to indicate what data are needed for their testing . |
| 3 | In addition , some 40,931 pupils with statements are taught in mainstream schools , but no data are published about their specific curriculum needs ( DES , 1989 , Table A26 ) . |
| 4 | The programs probeorder , barr and costig for ordering the data are described with their algorithms in the next section . |
| 5 | Controlling instructions and supporting data are entered into them , and each passes internal design activity and externally communicated management responses and data to other design activities . |
| 6 | ‘ I am Sir Alexander Seton of that Ilk , Governor of this town and port , and the cannon are fired on my command and with the authority of King David 's Regent . ’ |
| 7 | If your supplier conditions newly arrived fish before offering them for sale you will usually avoid problems once the fish are transferred to your aquarium . |
| 8 | The statistics are thrown at us relentlessly : the population of Africa is growing faster than any other group in recorded history . |
| 9 | Finally , as they near the Sargasso , the imprinted memory of the particular taste of those strange waters may be sufficient to lure them to the very same semi-stagnant tract of ocean where they hatched , just as adult trout are led to their own birth-places . |
| 10 | I 'm about as hard as a tub of lard , tho some people are fooled by my fascist green bomber jacket … |
| 11 | Effortlessly slim people are governed by their body 's requirement for food and are bullied by messages from the body — ‘ That 's it , old chap , I 've had enough ’ at the appropriate time . |
| 12 | ‘ Raising pupils awareness is especially important as so many young people are injured in their first few days at work . ’ |
| 13 | Bali 's people are noted for their grace and charm , their artistic dances and fabulous festivals . |
| 14 | ‘ When people are faced with lots of troubles and they do n't know what to do , there 's always someone ready to say anything , just to get some power , ’ said Grimma . |
| 15 | This finding serves to refute the powerful myth that older people are neglected by their family and that the main burden of caring for older people falls upon the state . |
| 16 | This finding reflects the commonsense idea that people are influenced in their speech by the speakers around them . |
| 17 | In addition , people are influenced by their own preconceptions , which will have evolved , in all but the very young , in far less enlightened times . |
| 18 | At present , a very large number of people are exposed to it in one way or another . |
| 19 | As violent crime against elderly people seems to increase , the resulting moral outcry can blind us to the fact that huge numbers of elderly people are abused in their own homes by carers — sons , daughters , husbands , wives , other relatives as friends , and paid carers . |
| 20 | Sadler adds , however , that an evangelist like Peters will have ‘ shifted large numbers of CEOs from thinking to doing — people are energized by his ideas ’ . |
| 21 | The Created God can supply the human need to have an agreed authority to supply the justification for the way in which people are allowed by their fellows to behave , and can thereby become a rationalised replacement for the ‘ Oracles ’ of old . |
| 22 | Perhaps the reason why more do not is that most people are protected by their lifestyles from the uncomfortable logic of the deficiency in their faith . |
| 23 | you see salesmanship is applying psychology , you know , and a lot of people , I mean , wha the reason why insurance companies are justified is a lot of people are protected by it , you know . |
| 24 | Bombs still go off , children starve to death and people are imprisoned for their thoughts , not their crimes . |
| 25 | It would be equally reasonable , however , to say that rather than disabled people being generally poor and powerless because people are prejudiced against us , people are prejudiced against us because we are poor and powerless . |
| 26 | It would be equally reasonable , however , to say that rather than disabled people being generally poor and powerless because people are prejudiced against us , people are prejudiced against us because we are poor and powerless . |
| 27 | I mean really it , it 's erm er we , we have a form do n't we we , we use when people are interviewed for something or other ? |
| 28 | and there 's a lot of er of what people even leave their , their fortunes to look after some animal and they do n't leave it to people like er the lady sitting here who are , folk , folk are starving , but then its because people are needed and people are needed by their children , but there also needed by their men folk and I think its when they turn to being a mother to their men that , you know , even the , the love that they have , er whether its been a sexual love at one time , er friendly love becomes a very caring love and er I think that 's what we all remember erm those of us who have lost our husbands , that would like to have that , that part back again |
| 29 | In the UK alone , over £40 million per year is spent on tranquillizers , and it is estimated that at least 3 million people are addicted to them Some drugs affect appetite and also increase the need for vitamins and minerals . |
| 30 | That is to say , heroin use does not come ‘ out of the blue ’ ; people are initiated into it via social mechanisms that include ideologies as to what constitutes acceptable and unacceptable behaviour . |