Example sentences of "[n mass] [vb base] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In INDONESIA 95% of women know about family planning , but less than 25% have ever heard of immunization or oral rehydration , both vital aids to preventing child deaths . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , labour agreements covering 20,000 workers at Lockheed Aircraft have also expired . |
| 3 | The Hercules aircraft have now stopped bringing in aid . |
| 4 | This was especially so with anything relating to stability and control or handling the aircraft in the air , since some modern aircraft have quite complicated power operated or aerodynamically assisted flying controls . |
| 5 | And now the cod have almost gone . |
| 6 | Last year , only two salmon climbed Idaho Lower Granite Dam compared with 4,500 in 1950. 100 sub-species have already disappeared from the two rivers and the Shoshone-Bannock native American tribe , the National Marine Fisheries Service and conservation groups have petitioned to have the remaining species listed . |
| 7 | Only the barracks look well maintained . |
| 8 | Very often bream have remarkably fixed movements and follow the same watery paths day by day . |
| 9 | At 1530 hrs on the afternoon of 14 May , for instance , the 1st Guards Bde log recorded that " Corps have now said that we can accept the surrender of any troops of Army Group E north of the Yugoslav frontier " . |
| 10 | Rob is full of stories and tales of fish landed and fish lost : a salmon of at least 30lb , lost in Madman Pool , the biggest fish Rob ever hooked ; a fresh-run 12lb salmon , from Otter Pool , taken on a size 10 Peter Ross and a nine-foot Hardy Perfection rod : ‘ Did n't do the rod much good . ’ |
| 11 | From that modest beginning has grown Koi Garden , where the prices are as unpretentious as the boss , and the larger fish have all spent a year being grown-on before going on sale . |
| 12 | Even when a problem is solved and the fish have apparently recovered it is common for tropicals to suffer an outbreak of White Spot and Coralfish to get Oodinium a few days later . |
| 13 | The overwhelming majority of Ulster 's people remain implacably opposed to this diktat and its contention that our land must be jointly governed by the English and Irish bureaucrats . |
| 14 | For all these variations , however , there persists in many localities a ‘ neighbourhood effect ’ whereby working class people appear consistently drawn towards the politics of the middle classes and employers of their area . |
| 15 | The 1949 Representation of the People Act effectively brought to final fruition the principle of " one person one vote . " |
| 16 | People seem better dressed , and there are more cars in the streets , and fewer beggars and blind men selling lottery tickets . |
| 17 | I usually call myself half German because people get so fed up with all the Germans who say they 're Austrian . ’ |
| 18 | We started everything from scratch , which is nice , because people get so stuck in their ways : you walk into a professional studio and things are always done in a certain way . |
| 19 | ‘ A lot of people get really worried about what other people are doing . |
| 20 | perceptions of media bias never proved statistically significant in any of our multiple regressions predicting usefulness-ratings . |
| 21 | So often people become almost paralysed by the apparent enormity of the tasks to be undertaken , that the only way to give the necessary support is to help them to partialise the tasks . |
| 22 | Surprisingly , people become so involved in the task that they rarely notice that you are setting up in a different way . |
| 23 | Large groups of people become so fascinated with the internal workings of their own organization that they are continually tinkering with it . |
| 24 | ‘ The loss of a pet can be just as upsetting as the death of a member of the family because people become so attached to them , ’ she said . |
| 25 | Generally , people become more worried about these matters as they get older . |
| 26 | There is the danger that young people become permanently criminalised . |
| 27 | ‘ People come here aged maybe 50 or 60 and their blood pressure goes down to what it was in adolescence , they are no longer constipated , digestive problems seem to disappear , their sex lives improve , their eyes are shiny and they have a feeling of optimism instead of carrying a heavy load of despondency . |
| 28 | Media represent socially constructed reality . |
| 29 | ‘ People have probably begun to wonder by now why I spend so much time in the club , ’ he said evenly . |
| 30 | Weller , at No 21 with Uh Huh , Oh Yeh , — his first major hit in four years — says : ‘ People have probably known more about my politics than my music . |