Example sentences of "of [n mass] were [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gusts of 65-80mph were widespread on the 18th , with the Northern Isles experiencing 80-90mph gusts on the 19th and 20th . |
| 2 | First , it is apparent how little the foreign Office and Chiefs of Staff were concerned with the problems of the British economy . |
| 3 | Starting with research on small towns in the mid-1930s and moving on to larger cities in the next decade , successive community studies analysed political processes as one aspect of the social life of the locality , and concluded that only a handful of people were influential in setting major decisions ( the Lynds , 1937 ; Warner , 1943 ) . |
| 4 | Vast masses of people were subject to conditions that would barely have been tolerated in the Dark Ages . |
| 5 | During the period when I was preparing my Report , three groups of people were involved in manoeuvres to control the National Curriculum in English : journalists , politicians and professional teachers . |
| 6 | All this made me wonder what class of people were involved in the production . |
| 7 | Given the fact that less than 30 per cent of charges brought resulted in successful conviction ( when the rate for most other crimes was about 50 per cent ) , we may wonder how much substance there was in many of the accusations , or whether at times of political anxiety certain types of people were likely to be vulnerable to false accusations because they conformed to the popular stereotype of who a Jacobite was . |
| 8 | As for the origin of species , reflection on many palaeontological and biogeographical facts , including those established by the expert judgments of Richard Owen and John Gould on the voyage material , had convinced Darwin , by early spring 1837 , that the close similarity seen between any congeneric endemic species in two areas was not always explicable as a common adaptation to common conditions ; for often the two sets of species were endemic in areas with very different climate , soil and so on . |
| 9 | Little more than $200,000,000 for the first year was pledged , however , with some $60,000,000 of this on concessional terms ; further pledges of $150,000,000 were forthcoming for the 1991-93 period . |