Example sentences of "[n mass] [verb] [prep] [noun] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 By some quirk of physiology , the fish feels like breeding only in the warm waters of the very long , swift flowing rivers of its native land during the monsoon season .
2 The rental for the first year would be £250 rising to £500 thereafter on an annual licence .
3 Last summer , before the lira was devalued , traders were buying lira puts at prices well below the currency 's floor against the D-mark .
4 PEOPLE fled in terror yesterday as a crashed petrol tanker exploded in a fireball , sending 7,000 gallons of blazing fuel roaring up the street .
5 At least 300 people living on storeys closer to the ground were hurt in the nine-floor blocks , which contained 480 flats .
6 People living in Middlesbrough now in Cleveland and Hull part of Humberside are also backing the campaign , he said .
7 It has been estimated that , of the thousand people bitten by rattlesnakes annually in the United States only about thirty die .
8 I am pleased that when it came to the crunch I tried to help the people calling for help instead of thinking about what might happen .
9 Staff went on strike more for the survival of the IBOA than for monetary gain .
10 People went to bed early in Walberswick .
11 People live in households often in different places from their work .
12 We have works signed by Nearchos both as potter and painter ( fig. 52 ) .
13 Then we can attempt to construct molecular orbitals , bearing in mind that an orbital of any particular symmetry species arises from combinations only of atomic orbitals of that same symmetry species .
14 The yen continued to power ahead on currency markets , as the dollar dived to a new low of 116 yen , ahead of next weekend 's meeting of the Group of Seven in London .
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