Example sentences of "the people living [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This expropriation took the form of tithes , taxes and labour in kind in return for the physical protection of the people living on the land by the noble landowners . |
| 2 | The people living on the estates , especially the elderly , tended to be isolated , and a number of new residents felt lonely and insecure . |
| 3 | This was when the people living on the Georgia coast in the southeast corner of the United States began growing and eating maize . |
| 4 | ‘ Wo n't that seem odd — to the people living on the ground floor — to have everything around them squashed up ? ’ |
| 5 | Seventy per cent of the people living on the estate had no wage and depended on state benefits . |
| 6 | They found that the people living on the estate did not have such intimate contact with their extended kin network . |
| 7 | As the situation went from bad to worse , the people living near the volcano became increasingly distressed , and many tried to leave St Pierre , heading for Fort-de-France , Martinique 's second town . |
| 8 | But many of the people living in the maisonettes do not want to leave . |
| 9 | Some of the Maritime school go further and ask the question , ‘ Who are We ? ; and answer it by pointing out that We are not just the people living in the United Kingdom today . |
| 10 | Aberdeen ( 200 000 people ) has attracted over a quarter of all the people living in the Highlands . |
| 11 | When the Boundary Commission looks at these matters over every 10 years or so , demography and demographic conditions have to be considered , and it is less easy than it appears on paper simply to provide consistency in terms of the demographic relationship of the people living in the country and the number of Members representing them in the House . |
| 12 | And er you know , I feel that people are only too ready to believe erm others you know er er to believe er others you know er er to believe the people living in the flats . |
| 13 | Thus his first action on returning to the Questura the day before had been to send his inspectors out to question the people living in the houses along the road to Cannara and talk to the local farmers , just in case anyone had seen anything . |
| 14 | Research will focus on the people living in the estates in east Middlesbrough . |
| 15 | It is important to understand that they are the people living in the area — the people who have suffered so much since 1947 . |