Example sentences of "[art] [num] 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 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 .
3 Most of the 22 people living in the houses have moved from Newchurch Hospital , Warrington .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 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 ] .
9 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 .
10 ‘ 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 .
11 Security forces surrounded the area and ordered the 3,000 people gathered at the church to leave .
12 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 .
13 The twelve people got into the little plane , and the plane began to move .
14 Today over 90% of the 900,000 people living in the Kaliningrad region are Russian .
15 Face the Media are present here , the two people sat at the front .
16 Quite unaware of the alarm his summons had provoked , Christian beamed at the four people assembled in the kitchen of his farmhouse .
17 There must have been a dozen people seated round the huge polished table , but she barely noticed any one of them as she opened the door and was confronted by the sight of Luke Calder .
18 The facts of the war are simple : about a dozen people died during the Serbo-Croat conflict in Croatia in 1990-91 .
19 The next problem comes when we recognize that the work done so far has produced a piece of research which could easily keep a dozen people occupied for the rest of their lives .
20 The place was heaving when we arrived ; there must have been a thousand people squashed into the confines of the Blue Angel club , all waiting to do three minutes for Les Cox and his production team , sitting invisibly beyond the strong footlights on the small stage .
21 The water supply of over a million people living in the area are is contaminated by a range of pollutants , including heavy metals , and nitrates at concentrations of up to 25 times the permitted EC limits .
22 Mr Wang was a top student leader of the 1989 demonstrations that saw more than a million people take to the streets calling for more democracy and demanding the end of corruption and special privileges for officials .
23 Between 1969 and 1973 it was to cost approximately £100 million , and involve a design team of up to a hundred people known as the New Range Planning Organisation ( NPRO ) .
24 More than a hundred people working on the JET nuclear fusion project in Oxfordshire are fighting for pay parity with other European scientists .
25 The ability to identify and assess problems , and to understand their effects and limitations on patients can not be learned passively and by rote , if only because no two people respond to the same problem in exactly the same way .
26 The key to Homoeopathy is that no two people suffer from the same disease .
27 There is no set pattern for grieving , for just as no two people love in the same way , no two people grieve in the same way .
28 There is no set pattern for grieving , for just as no two people love in the same way , no two people grieve in the same way .
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