Example sentences of "[adj] people [v-ing] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The chance of an exposure transmitting infection varies both between the different ways it can be transmitted and , for reasons yet undetermined , between different people engaging in the same activity . |
| 2 | If you have editing facilities , you could edit together a succession of short " clips " of different people talking about the same subject . |
| 3 | A lot of people think we 're going to be these po-faced people talking about the dark realms of the psyche . ’ |
| 4 | He arrives in Massillon , Ohio , to discover the entire town of 30,000 people preparing for the big football game the next day . |
| 5 | From the corner where she squatted on a stool , she watched Midnight quietly serving the six people sitting at the long table ; n the centre of the room and , in spite of her hunger , was impressed by the careful , unobtrusive way he worked — standing always on the left of each person , never knocking against them or even brushing the backs of their tall chairs . |
| 6 | The Buriats , a Mongolian people living around the southern end of Lake Baikal in East Siberia , often viewed Scots pine groves as sacred . |
| 7 | He realized they were no different from him : he and they were all people walking on the dusty road which ends in death . |
| 8 | mass forms of musical practice which are based on the musical activity of many people interacting at the same time and in the same way — forms which structure bodily movements and processes , and which enable bodily experience to become an aesthetically mediated pleasure ( ibid : 228 ) . |
| 9 | These disparities are largely attributed to poor educational attainment — too many people leaving at the statutory school leaving age with few or no qualifications , too few continuing their education and too few entering higher education . |
| 10 | Many people living in the rural areas of the South of Italy , the Highlands of Scotland , the West of Ireland or the interior of Portugal have lower incomes , fewer job opportunities and poorer social services than those in cities and in well-endowed agricultural areas . |
| 11 | ‘ I do n't see so many people going in the opposite direction now , so I hope that 's a sign that we 've persuaded a few of them to stay in town and watch their local team . ’ |
| 12 | A notable feature of the campaign has been a large number of ‘ do n't knows ’ , with many people waiting until the last minute before deciding how to vote . |
| 13 | And the overall toll , which includes sectarian murders , shows a similar trend with 46 people dying in the first five months of last year compared to 29 this year . |
| 14 | Well I do n't mind , well I mean this is a horrible thing to say but I do n't necessarily mind people robbing from the rich but when it 's poor people robbing from the poor , it 's a really wank off , really wanky thing to do , you know , I just think it 's disgusting . |
| 15 | No wonder that poor people living in the traditional way in India and many African countries have a considerably shorter life expectancy than we — with our better living conditions and easily available medicine . |
| 16 | All this must be done without delay or argument because the safety of all those people flying in the 521 other Boeing 707/300 aircraft could be at stake . |
| 17 | It is here contended that this last group , forming a close network of interdependent and inter-communicating people working at the leading edge of science at a time of rapid personal and scientific development may be a highly significant unit for the establishment of contacts in later careers , and for the promulgation of paradigm shifts in science . |
| 18 | It meant ‘ self-respect … the poor man 's sword of honour ’ , a fine doctrine for ‘ the many deserving people belonging to the small shopkeeping and lower professional classes ’ . |
| 19 | Tour operator Thomson said bookings are up five per cent on last year , with more than 80,000 people travelling in the last week of the year . |
| 20 | What I mean by tradition involves all those habitual actions , habits and customs , from the most significant religious rite to our conventional way of greeting a stranger , which represent the blood kinship of ‘ the same people living in the same place ’ . |
| 21 | The running time is twenty six minutes , we might as well get that right , we had er , er several people commenting on the running time of the other video , but er people had different of estimates , anything from fifteen to twenty five minutes . |
| 22 | Smoke from a row of barbecues mixes with the dust of perhaps 15,000 people shuffling along the wooden stalls to shop for meat , antibiotics , the latest fashions , even , it is said , used cars . |
| 23 | Here were young people striving for the noblest ideals . |
| 24 | About half of these had been won from the moderate middle-class parties and were augmented by the vote of about 6 million new voters , half of whom were young people voting for the first time , and the other half of whom were people who up to now had been too weary , cynical or lacking in hope to vote at all . |
| 25 | It 's one of the busiest nightspots in the Mediterranean and the streets are simply crowded from dusk onwards with young people going about the serious business of enjoying themselves , socialising , trying the local brew , ‘ discovating ’ and generally having a good time until the early hours of the morning ! |
| 26 | Due to the emigration of the people of East Germany to the West — there had been two million people removing in the ten years up to 1961 — a wall was constructed between that part of Berlin controlled by the Communists and the other parts which were controlled by the Federal republic with Britain , France and the United States of America . |
| 27 | The report 's task was to assess the effects on 825,000 people living in the nearby area . |
| 28 | In Halton Borough , Cheshire , for instance , there are 13 notifiable installations , with over 20 000 people living within the defined ‘ consultation zones ’ ( Petts 1988 ) . |
| 29 | On July 19 , a total of 19 people sheltering at the Czechoslovak embassy surrendered to the authorities . |