Example sentences of "[n mass] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like the system of militia service it pressed heavily upon the poorer sections of the groups it affected and fell comparatively lightly on the middle classes of the French seaports . |
| 2 | As Best defied his own name and went from bad to worse , the former United star had pellets injected into his stomach in a failed bid to combat alcoholism ; he spent time in jail for drunk driving , police assault and jumping bail , and at his most desperate offered his services to any football team willing to pay £1,000 to include him in their team . |
| 3 | Cancelling fractions is when somebody ha gives you somebody says erm you say , How much pizza did you get ? three twelfths. three twelfths make it a bit more simple oh well it 's just the same as three three twelfths is |
| 4 | Eventually , stirred by the preaching of Abbot Isambert of St Martial 's , the nobles and populace organized a militia to combat them . |
| 5 | Before any cash was received from the sheep tax it was repealed and a fourth year of the property tax substituted in its place . |
| 6 | He succeeds in the game and the goldfish offers him a prize . |
| 7 | He pressured Max Radl at Abwehr headquarters to plan it all behind the Admiral 's back . |
| 8 | ‘ Buck thinks he has it in the bag , but there 's a long way to go yet . ’ |
| 9 | Seventy-nine per cent felt that Banking World was informative and 63% found it particularly interesting . |
| 10 | One UN convoy was still stranded at the Drina river frontier between Bosnia and Serbia after Bosnian Serb militia stopped it crossing on Sunday . |
| 11 | This must have been agreed , as on 22 February , Major-General Galloway of MEHQ wrote to Eighth Army Headquarters to inform them that after the next series of operations , L Detachment would be withdrawn to re-form up to strength and be retrained as a parachute unit . |
| 12 | And the parents of two children who drowned in a water tank at an army barracks say they may sue the Ministry of Defence for compensation . |
| 13 | ‘ I only got away by throwing hen feed at the sheep to distract them . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I 'll let headquarters know you 're here , ’ Sharpe said . |
| 15 | Well , four days on with thousands of people still on the site at Castle Morton Common , there 's growing anger locally that nobody seems to have the power to do anything about the travellers.Villagers say they 're under siege . |
| 16 | Poll on poll has suggested that over half the population believes abortion should be legal as a matter of course , and that nearly 90% say it should be legal in certain cases . |
| 17 | The Wedding Present were given a budget of £30,000 to record the LP with the promise of up to £20,000 to promote it afterwards . |
| 18 | At Ruskington the inadequacies of the data make it difficult to draw firm conclusions , although there appears to be a smaller proportion of graves with amber than at Sleaford . |
| 19 | Smoothly , Karlheinz Pintsch panned round as the aircraft passed him , sweeping down the runway . |
| 20 | However , as Akiskal has no data to enable him to elaborate on the processes involved or the interaction of the contributing factors , his model does not yet have any practical value . |
| 21 | Though grouping of some kind was the norm in the classrooms we visited , our interview and observation data revealed it to be a somewhat problematic strategy for many teachers . |
| 22 | The workshop session on the importance of the measurement and analysis of data made me understand the purpose of the charts and graphs displayed on office walls at Runcorn Heath . |
| 23 | Such data made it clear that ( i ) it was realistic and profitable to study individual species , even within a complex community and ( ii ) that the dynamics of the populations appeared to be largely independent of year-to-year fluctuations in climate . |
| 24 | Indeed , Roberts herself makes the point that , for example , Anderson 's reliance upon census data made it difficult for him to see the extent of exchanges across households . |
| 25 | Here a hypothesis on regional differentiation , sometimes coinciding with social differentiation is attractive , although it is very difficult indeed to provide data to support it . |
| 26 | If the record required is available on the prime data track it should be located , on average , in half a revolution . |
| 27 | On the data side it 's a run-of-the-mill 2,400bps modem which supports the following standards : V21 ( 300bps ) , V22 ( 1,200bps ) , V22bis ( 2,400bps ) and V23 ( 1200/75bps ) . |
| 28 | The climb-out is shallow ( about 300 ft/min ) and flown at 50kts with the engine pulled back to 2250 rpm to conserve it a little — max rpm ( and thus 38hp ) is at 2625 rpm . |
| 29 | These begin from an appreciation of the complementary nature of data arriving through the different sensory channels and expand by the acquisition of concepts such as the continuity of the physical world , e.g. a person who walks behind a screen has not vanished , it is accepted that he is still there even though temporarily there is no sense data to confirm it , but a hypothesis will be generated which supposes that , if he walked behind a screen at a constant speed , he ought to reappear at a given time at the other side of the screen . |
| 30 | The RFFS person saw the crashed aircraft front he control room and drove to the scene in a spare vehicle . |