Example sentences of "[art] [adj] people [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Several thousand of the 226,000 people employed in the industry are also expected to clock up seven-figure incomes this year , making them targets of another Clinton tax proposal — a 10 per cent surcharge on earnings over $1 million a year . |
| 2 | As in most provincial towns of the time , the wealthiest families lived in the central area and the poorest people lived in the thickly-populated outskirts . |
| 3 | I do n't need the Chief Executive to tell me what 's happening because I 'm going to be involved in seeing what 's happening and as far as the Labour people talking about the cost it 's going to create . |
| 4 | In the fiercely free enterprise USA , home ownership , as in the UK , is the mark of responsible citizenship , and home ownership is just what the 12 people living in the clapboard house have achieved . |
| 5 | Those of us who want the Scottish people to stay in the UK can see nothing logically wrong or abhorrent in the UK developing its constitutional relationship with its community partners . |
| 6 | THE COMMISSION of Investigation wishes to pay homage to you , in particular for your support to the Chadian people oppressed during the eight years of dictatorship of Hissein Habre . |
| 7 | The British people have in the past found them rather more powerful than the corporations which are popularly supposed to finance the Conservative party . |
| 8 | Gradually , the French people turned against the sale guerre . |
| 9 | Most of the 22 people living in the houses have moved from Newchurch Hospital , Warrington . |
| 10 | A REFUSAL by the Republic 's Government to provide funds for a memorial to the 22 people killed in the loyalist bomb attack on Dublin in 1974 has angered the Dublin City Council . |
| 11 | Only in the late nineteenth century did these contracts generally disappear and instead the land was sold or let and the old people lived off the cash proceeds . |
| 12 | Then they had to brace themselves to pass the few people standing along the church wall . |
| 13 | A small proportion ( about 20 ) of the 660 people living in the hospital in 1984 were widely regarded as presenting such serious challenges that it had been planned to move them to new sub-regional institutions rather than community services . |
| 14 | Furthermore , Mr Chris Mullin , the author of the book which asserts the innocence of the six people convicted of the Birmingham bombing ( Error of Judgement , Chatto and Windus , £10.95 ) is a former editor of Tribune , one of whose previous works was a novel about that tedious left-wing fantasy : a right-wing coup in Britain . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The health authorities declared a fresh state of " red alert " on Dec. 28 when further cases of cholera were discovered in three northern provinces bordering Bolivia and Paraguay , although it was reported that none of the 44 people diagnosed in the space of five days had died [ for outbreak in early 1992 see p. 38761 ] . |
| 17 | Gentlemen and their men servants — 267 , these are the extra people staying in the houses , not the people who lived in St Aldate 's normally , women — 66 , children under 16 years of age — 13 , soldiers of the life-guards — 62 , total in this parish — 408 . |
| 18 | But most of the 8,000 people sitting in the glass house are tourists drawn by Mr Schuller 's fame ( he is seen by about 1.3m American households each Sunday ) and the eye-popping spectacle of the cathedral designed by Mr Philip Johnson . |
| 19 | Uncle Albert told her that when he did the weeding , he always imagined himself as some great monster uprooting trees and scaring the tiny people hiding under the stones . |
| 20 | ‘ The whole of Teesside will benefit from having a cleaner river , not just the 200,000 people living in the Stockton and western Middlesbrough areas who are served by the works , ’ he said . |
| 21 | Security forces surrounded the area and ordered the 3,000 people gathered at the church to leave . |
| 22 | The gamble is that the more people know about the workings of behaviour the more they will use it skilfully to benefit themselves and others . |
| 23 | The more people complained about the Neath forwards ' haircuts , the less inclined the Neath forwards were to change them ; the more people complained about Neath 's rugby , the less Neath were inclined to change . |
| 24 | In establishing four oral rehydration packet production sites in Bangladesh , they failed to reach the majority of the Bangladeshi people owing to the inefficiencies of the production sites , the inherent inadequacies of the Bangladeshi transport network and the rural nature of the vast majority of the population . |
| 25 | Italy 's air force was told yesterday that unless it bombed fast moving lava flows pouring from Mount Etna to divert their course , the 6,500 people living at the foot of Europe 's highest volcano could face destruction . |
| 26 | R : in those days + when we were young + there was no local fire engine here + it was just a two-wheeled trolley which was kept in the borough + in the borough eh store down on James Street + and whenever a fire broke out + it was just a question of whoever saw the fire first yelling ‘ Fire ’ + and the nearest people ran for the trolley and how they got on with it goodness knows + nobody was trained in its use + anyway everybody knew to go for the trolley + well + when we were children + we used to use this taw [ t– : ] + it smouldered furiously + black thick smoke came from it and we used to get it burning + and then go to a letter box and just keep blowing + open the letter box + and just keep blowing the smoke in + you see + till you 'd fill up the lower part of the house with nothing but smoke + there was no fire + but just fill it up with smoke + just to put the breeze up + just as a joke + and then of course + when somebody would open a window or a door the smoke would come pouring out + and then + everybody was away then for the trolley + we just stood and watched all of them + + |
| 27 | The twelve people got into the little plane , and the plane began to move . |
| 28 | When the first people left for the fields in the morning they found a dead dog on the path . |
| 29 | As is invariably the case in such matters , the only people to profit from the entire episode were the lawyers . |
| 30 | The only people cheered by the figures were cold cure producers — victims spent £172 million on remedies last year . |