Example sentences of "[det] the people " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given that the people had put him there , the Emperor envisaged it as his duty to be seen as the people 's servant — not just in the matter of governing but in his behaviour as a Sovereign who must associate the people with all aspects of his life . |
| 2 | They are able to argue this because they believe that the state in capitalist society is neutral and can be used in any way that the people desire . |
| 3 | it was kind of hard for them to pay it and that 's were it came in that the people who actually had the black book would lose out on their dividend because their dividend would be used to pay what was owed by other people . |
| 4 | Fiercest in his assessments was Vladimir Brovikov , the Soviet ambassador to Poland , who accused Gorbachev of being obsessed with democratization " without discipline or order " and concluded : " It is said that the people back perestroika . |
| 5 | But Susan the people that that the people that are coming to you now |
| 6 | It was the least the people whose letters he kept and treasured deserved . |
| 7 | They have a very fiercely competitive system , and some people say that you have to start preparing for this at nursery school erm and it 's a question of going to the right schools , going to the right training colleges , though it 's not so much a question of going to university , although you do have to have a university degree in most cases , but they have special training establishments with a tough competition to get into it , and as a result of this the people who come out are very highly selected , and think of themselves as being very professional , very competent , they have a great deal more self confidence , in some ways , than our British civil servants do . |
| 8 | Half the people in the study received nothing from a formal agency and the authors conclude that the Social Fund ‘ is largely irrelevant to most real-life situations within which the poorest people find themselves ’ . |
| 9 | Sometimes there were cries of pain , shouts of ‘ I ca n't breathe ’ , but mostly a loud and continuous din of sobbing from at least half the people in the room . |
| 10 | And half the people who hired items were given no verbal advice on choosing and using them . |
| 11 | Half the people there did not know that . |
| 12 | Lack of knowledge or skill was seen as a potential constraint by half the people . |
| 13 | but it went ; because half the people turned out to hate the other half and so everybody had to strive like anything to make things go . |
| 14 | In 1986 almost half the people aged over 85 , for example , were unable to go out of doors and walk down the road on their own , and almost a third were unable to manage stairs . |
| 15 | Malleson had said that half the people were as ready to drop out as he was and he had already dropped out . |
| 16 | Half the people I know came up and condoled with me on your ‘ Infidelity ’ . |
| 17 | Nearly half the people using credit are currently paying off more than one transaction with the same comPany ( Appendix I , Table 3 ) . |
| 18 | People with bank accounts often like to pay credit instalments by bank standing order — half the people in our main survey said they preferred this payment method . |
| 19 | Top cosmetic surgeon Anthony Erian says he turns away more than half the people who walk into his Harley Street consulting rooms looking for a new image . |
| 20 | It shows almost half the people are spending less on clothes for themselves , three out of 10 spend less on food , about a quarter find it hard to pay regular bills on time , and 43 per cent plan to spend less this Christmas . |
| 21 | Half the people asked if they had sex with the radio on were listening to the Radio 1 star , just voted Britain 's top DJ . |
| 22 | I believe , in fact , that when a house is up for sale more than half the people who look over it are not prospective buyers , but merely ladies who can not resist exploring someone else 's house . |
| 23 | Still , about half the people never take anything for a headache . |
| 24 | According to Townsend 's estimates , over half the people in Britain at some state in their lives may well experience relative deprivation to such an extent that they could be said to be ‘ in poverty ’ for those periods . |
| 25 | equivalent output with half the people and half the space ; |
| 26 | ‘ And you wo n't go and make a similar deal with half the people in town ? ’ |
| 27 | ‘ What if half the people in Beirut or somewhere are called Azul ? |
| 28 | Heaven knows who we used to see at the Fitzroy Street parties : we did n't know half the people that were there : we only knew the family . |
| 29 | There are many tribes in Botswana but over half the people belong to the Tswana tribe . |
| 30 | Over half the people on our windsurf holidays come by themselves . |