Example sentences of "[det] [n mass] were [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few reindeer were grazing on the sparse tundra . |
| 2 | During the day a Cant Z.501 flyingboat of the 184 a Squadriglia R.M. was also lost , apparently to Malta fighters , and probably while searching for the downed German aircrew ; the crew of this aircraft were rescued near the Sicilian coast . |
| 3 | No one was hurt in the rush hour blast but a few people were taken to the Royal Free Hospital , Hampstead , suffering from shock . |
| 4 | Such works were protected before the 1988 Act but there were difficulties in determining the identity of the author of the work for copyright purposes . |
| 5 | These data were compared in the hypertensive and normotensive groups , as nearly as possible to the same ages at which these data had been recorded for hypertensive cases . |
| 6 | These data were recorded on a computer and analysed with the Excel ( Microsoft ) package and a statistics package for personal computers ( Timberlake Clark ) . |
| 7 | These data were stored on the large IBM installation of the Central Electricity Generating Board in London , and an " in house " written data base handling language , INFSYS , was used to marshall the data . |
| 8 | These data were supplemented by the radar ‘ looking ’ sideways at the surface , a rather subtle technique which I shall not describe . |
| 9 | These data were correlated with the signals and log of time on the recording . |
| 10 | Although employed by various institutions , these staff were linked through the collaboration which recent national developments in INSET have begun to enforce . |
| 11 | The fact that fewer people were participating in the ‘ cash ’ economy , since more and more were having their rent , bills etc. paid directly by one public agency to another would also tend to debilitate the private sector , and may have serious social repercussions by producing a culture of dependence , alienation and apathy . |
| 12 | It is bad enough when a relative dies , but these people were faced with a massive funeral bill and there was no money in the fund . ’ |
| 13 | Gluckman said that he had performed more than 200 post-mortems on black people who had died in detention , and he was convinced that 90 per cent of these people were killed by the police . |
| 14 | Thousands of Ulster citizens have taken the law into their own hands to save their country , many of these people were encouraged by the speeches of our ‘ leaders ’ ; many were frustrated that speeches were all they made . |
| 15 | Much later , these salmon were released into a lake and left to mature . |
| 16 | Both these works were played during the first Tilford Bach Festival after which William Mann reviewing the concert in the Times wrote ‘ such a Festival in such a place does Bach signal homage ’ . |
| 17 | The view in this paper is that the sense of disillusionment many people were experiencing during the first year of the war resulted from an over-valuation of man 's nature , and an attempt to deny the reality of death for people one loved . |
| 18 | According to Tolstoy in The Minister and the Massacres ( pp 103–9 ) , no sooner had the 20–30,000 Croats assembled at Bleiburg laid down their arms ( they also included many civilians ) than Tito 's partisans opened fire from the surrounding woods causing an immense massacre ( " the slaughter was terrible … the whole field was strewn with bodies … how many people were massacred in the Bleiburg fields on 15 and 16 May is unknown " ) . |
| 19 | She was part of an evangelical crusade that claimed many people were trapped in the occult . |
| 20 | Averages eased but more sheep were sold at the Suffolk Sheep Society 's national show and sale at Stoneleigh last week when bidding peaked at 5600gns on a trade where selectivity was the order of the day . |
| 21 | in real terms over this period , and those pensioners will have benefited further since those statistics were compiled by the increases amounting to a third of a billion pounds that have been made in income support premiums in the past three years . |
| 22 | Following the question by the right hon. Member for Tweeddale , Ettrick and Lauderdale ( Sir D. Steel ) , is there not essentially a double standard when one delegation can bring whomsoever it likes to the talks , whether those people were born in the Soviet Union or the United States , and another delegation is told whom it can and whom it can not bring ? |
| 23 | More people were drifting into the club , all of whom asked Erika how her interview had gone . |
| 24 | More and more people were looking to the drains , rather than to providence . |
| 25 | It was a sign of the dawning self-consciousness of the age that more and more people were turning to the vernacular to express their deepest thoughts and feelings . |
| 26 | ITALY 's prime minister , Giuliano Amato , yesterday said he would call a vote of confidence as at least 26 more people were arrested in a corruption scandal that has forced a cabinet reshuffle . |
| 27 | To investigate this pattern , the researchers transferred fry in the study stream to 25 pairs and , sure enough , only fry the same size or smaller than the pairs ' own offspring were accepted into the fold , while larger fry were eaten or driven away . |
| 28 | Budapest Radio said several people were killed at a demonstration in the Transylvanian town of Tirgu Mures yesterday . |
| 29 | Several people were injured in a 12-vehicle pile-up on the M25 near Wisley , Surrey . |
| 30 | Northern Constabulary has confirmed that two visits have been made to the Glen Moriston site , during which several people were charged under the 1865 Criminal Trespass ( Scotland ) act . |