Example sentences of "[n mass] were [adj] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The helicopter 's builder reported that the bolts and nuts used to build the aircraft were those supplied with the kit . |
| 2 | The effect of these and of the accumulation of abandoned baggage was such that it was , according to Ney 's aide-de-camp , Col Levasseur , ‘ impossible to walk upright in the streets and the infantry were obliged to crawl under the waggons in order to get through . ’ |
| 3 | Even though it was against Danzig law , these people were all sent to the Reich , presumably to concentration camps . |
| 4 | The inhabitants were on the upper floors calling for help but , before anything could be done for them , the houses disintegrated and the people were all lost in the flood . |
| 5 | Animals , birds , insects , people were all pulled into the joke of life . |
| 6 | At the lower end of the social scale , the dusty rather than the ‘ fit-to-be-dusted ’ classes , people were prepared to encamp at the station for days . |
| 7 | At a concluding public rally , attended by over 250,000 people , he declared that the people were prepared to die for the revolution if the United States invaded the country . |
| 8 | When the county 's energetic emergency planning officer , Dr Alan Jones , went through it , he was amazed : for example , two of the local assembly points , where people were supposed to collect in the event of an evacuation , no longer existed . |
| 9 | Again , people were quick to distinguish between the fact that William Joyce might be a man of unpleasant and hysterical views , the supporter of a tyrannical regime , and the suspicion that the British authorities might in some way have rigged his trial . |
| 10 | On Aug. 4 and 5 , in the week before UN staff were due to arrive in the territory to start preparing the January 1992 UN-supervised referendum [ see p. 38169 ] , Moroccan aircraft strafed the oasis of Tfariti in the north-east , near the Mauritanian border , while Polisario Front guerrillas claimed to have shot down a Moroccan aircraft . |
| 11 | Arrangements were made for her to go to a home specialising in care for people who were motivated to look after themselves , and the staff were prepared to cope with the deafness . |
| 12 | He may have shared in the Puritan tendency of Cranbrook ; his published works were all printed for the London theological bookseller , Philemon Stephens , and produced in the early 1650s , at a time when publication in both the learned languages and the vernacular greatly increased . |
| 13 | Iacovleff 's works were last exhibited at the Grand Central Art Galleries in New York in 1939 . |