Example sentences of "[n mass] are [adv] [verb] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The trout are literally dying of old age , ’ said fishery spokesman Aidan Barry . |
| 2 | Of course it matters if people are deliberately robbed of the means of judgment by suppression of facts which , in any other situation , would be regarded as necessary to make sense of what had taken place . |
| 3 | If your elderly parent is , by nature , affectionate and demonstrative , always kiss her warmly on arrival , and when you leave ; for many old people are greatly deprived of essential physical contact . |
| 4 | Accordingly , he has drawn up a document outlining his position on negotiations which he means to make public , so the people are fully apprised of the proposals that would be on the table . |
| 5 | Another part of me is racist , probably because I 've hardly met any colored people and all I know of them is what I read in papers and see on television , where black people are usually talked of in terms of numbers and presumed guilty until proved innocent . |
| 6 | Larger species are usually stripped of their flesh , so that bones and feathers are not ingested . |