Example sentences of "[n mass] [coord] [pers pn] be [adv] " in BNC.

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1 When Gloucester took Sir John into his service he acknowledged his importance by doubling his wages : the knight was confirmed as steward of Middleham with his fee increased from £13 6s 8d to £20 and he was also made constable of the castle with a fee of £16 13s 4d .
2 When Gloucester took Sir John into his service he acknowledged his importance by doubling his wages : the knight was confirmed as steward of Middleham with his fee increased from £13 6s 8d to £20 and he was also made constable of the castle with a fee of £16 13s 4d .
3 So the process starts with the data and it 's totally determined by the contents of the data , right ?
4 Phenomenologists believe that it is impossible to produce factual data and it is therefore impossible to produce and check causal explanations .
5 The latest available figures — they are not Government figures because they will not publish theirs — show that in the south-east Government spending per head was £1,876 but it was only £1 , 707 in the north — 10 per cent .
6 JOHN GRIFFITHS , trolley retrieval , East Filton : ‘ On holiday in New Zealand I ate a fish I thought was cod but it was slightly different .
7 But there was no aircraft but it was just a practice fire , you know .
8 When it comes to choosing cavalry you have fewer options than with infantry but you are still spoiled for choice compared to most armies .
9 Your pet goldfish and you are basically two ‘ expressions ’ of the one , cosmic force .
10 no , but the spiders , I remember that one that got , was on the daddy-longlegs and he was just sitting there and he would n't move and no one would walk down the stairs , so we were just giving it pouf pouf and all throwing things at him trying to get him to go .
11 Er obviously the erm better for overseas visitors pound will help tourism in this country , particularly in London erm the Chairman says Madame Tussauds in fact gets about sixty percent visitors over from overseas , Rock Circus at the moment is about fifty percent and it 's still rising , which partially explains why it had a very good year last year .
12 We have the club slides in our house so that you know really whoever takes over organizing the meeting should really have those and they 're all sorted out in order so it 's just a case of diving in the bag and looking for whatever you want , ever the I always try to bring some fish to look at , to the the scr to the screen erm some of the fish that were on show on the table for that particular sh er in erm table show because I think it shows interest and to learn more about the fish and it 's always nice when somebody else knows a lot more about the particular species than you do , and i is able to tell you quirks and fancies that they have .
13 We used to catch a lot of fish and it was always in them days you used to catch the trout in the Summer and you used to dry them on the on the dykes and hang them on the line like you could see haddocks and that drying .
14 At that time the value was agreed at £600 but it was subsequently discovered that only £200 of these spares were of any use .
15 The weight of the electronic version is 250 g and it is about 185 mm long .
16 ‘ It would mean a saving of around £3,000 but I am also due to meet the Rhyl Town Council on Tuesday to discuss an alternative site which has not yet been revealed , ’ he added .
17 Consumer public relations depends on using to the full this part of the media and it is generally accepted that any consultant working in this field will have contacts within the appropriate media .
18 The fish fought as hard as a 10lb summer pike and I was quite staggered to lift aboard a barracuda of about 2lb .
19 This has been hanging about for a long , long time while I 've been on this and these people and they 're very special people I 've got this sword of hanging over my head .
20 Originally umbrellas were used to shade high ranking people and they are still used this way in some parts of the world , for example in Ghana .
21 Her previous publications have addressed family care and community care in relation to older people and she is currently researching alternative forms of long term care for this group .
22 There may come a point when the rights and needs of other people have to be taken into account in the planning which is done for old people and it is morally unacceptable to take a stance which disregards others ' interests .
23 It is most common in older people and it is often believed that there is no cure because it is a sign that the body is wearing out .
24 You see you meet lots of wonderful people lots of different people and it 's always nice to People make the place do n't they ?
25 I met her in a big line-up of people and it was very difficult for her .
26 ‘ Leaving Pete is hard but we know he gets on well with these people and he 's very adaptable . ’
27 You know you 've got a million people and you 're just looking after a thousand , maybe more .
28 ‘ Sometimes it 's really tough when you 're on the street with only a quid and you 're both starving .
29 Her skin seemed to glow , and she discovered she only had to smile at the male members of the staff and they were immediately more friendly .
30 After lunch the Belgian gentleman talked to several of the below-stairs staff and they were severally repelled or enchanted .
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