Example sentences of "[prep] be [det] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Equally there seem to be many people who stay for a short period , and then just move on . |
| 2 | I erm have n't done a survey of this , but from my experience of meeting people in different universities I do get the impression that there tends to be many people of a religious persuasion , whereas in the sciences of the very small , biology and so on , there is not . |
| 3 | I think , Bill , Pauline 's expressing the frustration that we feel , that as David was saying earlier , as Christians we feel particularly that we are called to serve people like this in great trouble , and yet sometimes you think , you know , however many times I try erm there seems to be many people for whom erm all my effort gets nowhere , and I feel that things are getting worse in society and one feels more and more helpless and hopeless , and therefore there 's a kind of frustration erm that builds up here erm |
| 4 | There seem to be more people with the same idea , as the number of bowyers listed in the appropriate journals is increasing each year . |
| 5 | ‘ There seemed to be more people than ever there . |
| 6 | For centuries , European people ate the Solan goose on Fridays , believing it to be more fish than bird . |
| 7 | In 1677 Sir William Petty , an English scientist-scholar of distinction , declared that " of man itself there seems to be several species to say nothing of Gyants and Pigmyes or of that sort of small men who have little speech and feed chiefly on fish " , which is all of a piece with Sir John Mandeville 's wholly fictional fourteenth-century quest for " diversities of folkys and diverse shap of man and beistis " . |
| 8 | Existing users can have their products upgraded for a cost expected to be some £500 per site ; new users can buy products from the wide-ranging series at between £900 and £50,000 . |
| 9 | The new compiler is said to be some 10% to 20% faster than the top-ranked GNU C Compiler . |
| 10 | He expects direct payments to be some £250m for 1993 , while a further £250m will go on the pension fund for early leavers . |
| 11 | because there are going to be some people who wo n't take any further steps and erm |
| 12 | me , my mate and paul had a terrible night out after the spurs game : first we were supposed to meet two fellow norw. at a pub ( the black lion ? ) and they never showed up — then we went downtown to the marquee which was empty ( 8 quid out of the window ) and a not the place to go at a saturday nite ( no live music , just house — which i quite like — but there has to be some people around ) — then standing in queue at ‘ the borderline ’ for a couple of hours not getting in … and it was bloody cold ( hi paul ) — the wind just froze my balls of ( well nearly ) … the meet-up was cozy though — no problems finding the guys ( or rather : just look for mr cantona ) and time for a couple of pints before and after the game and no problem wearing a leeds outfit at the pub … i was not sporting my leeds away scarf when among the newcastle crowd though ; - ) |
| 13 | There would have to be some people w we would n't invite as well as the people who are no longer here . |
| 14 | Likely to be some carp at Middlewich . |
| 15 | Yep , yep erm these officers are all trained in , in fire prevention work erm at the Fire Service 's technical college at Morton Marsh , and er they practise those skills they learn there over many years erm I 'm looking back , I mean the time that I spent in training schools and er and in , in the job er I suppose when you total it all up it must be two or three years away from home really , er in courses you know , in my day we went away on fire prevention training classes six months , six months ' course was the , so you went away to the Fire Service college which in those days was at Dorking , a lovely place in Dorking , and you did six months there solid , and then nowadays about thirteen weeks , the courses run about thirteen weeks , and you are constantly fire , fire officers from the ranks of erm probably a Sub Officer , leading fireman in some places , but Sub Officer onwards and particularly Station Officer up to the more senior ranks are away on courses regularly for , it 's really updating people erm new legislation coming in , new techniques coming in , erm which have to be these people have to be updated so they are very well trained , erm more so than most local authority people I would think , fire , fire officers are , erm purely because the job is such a wide range of , of things to deal with . |
| 16 | I may also have dwelt too long on the years between 1690 and 1730 , but this was simply because it seems to be most people 's favourite period . |
| 17 | And it turned out to be this Pekinese and when we went down there the lady was lovely and er we we interviewed her and we saw the Pekinese and we saw the Pekinese carry flower pots everywhere . |
| 18 | By putting a premium on the use of it , then presumably , there are going to be fewer people who are going to use it over a period of time . |
| 19 | But I do n't , not only that Marg , I mean , it 's become like a , but the only thing I do object to is these people marching about , and they do n't want to help pay for their children 's |
| 20 | sorry , there 's gon na be some people who do n't even ha have no pupil comment on at all then ? |