Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] people [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In contrast , the nearest most deaf people got to the War was to receive training in rifle practice and to learn how to dig trenches in case the Germans managed to invade . |
| 2 | It never fails to amaze me how little some people know about the fish they are buying , even down to the most basic of aspects . |
| 3 | Only 500 people assembled before the Chancellery on 29 August to hear Hitler 's speech , most standing ‘ grim and silent ’ . |
| 4 | Only 34,000 people live in the area which could be affected by noise , compared with 143,000 who would be affected if a second runway was built at Manchester . |
| 5 | Only 34,000 people live in the area which could be affected by noise compared with the 143,000 who would be affected if a second runway was built at Manchester . |
| 6 | Only 1,200 people voted in the elections , but the process was traditionally regarded as important since election to Chambers of Commerce and professional associations represented the sole form of democratic practice in the occupied territories [ see p. 38788 for Gaza elections in January and February ] . |
| 7 | Croatian President Franjo Tudjman made his name in the 1960s as a maverick historian who charged that only 30,000 people perished at the hands of the Ustashe fascists . |
| 8 | Both days were a great success and it was good to see so many people looking round the plant and seeing for themselves where our effort is going and what is being achieved . ’ |
| 9 | With so many people pouring into the stations on these occasions , there was always concern about keeping the excursionists disciplined and organized . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 11 | The condemnation of the figures that the hon. Gentleman has read out is that in those boroughs we need never have had so many liability orders or so many people taken to the courts or threatened with prison if they had not been misled by Labour Members of Parliament and councillors into running up enormous debts . |
| 12 | Ms Davidson suggests that PR is now valued more than ever before and this is reflected in the number of highly qualified people coming into the industry . |
| 13 | Only five people lived on the island , so I could work alone , and nobody would discover my awful secret . |
| 14 | Despite the ‘ fine cast of characters … assembled for a morality play , even a tragedy , that once promised to rival the Watergate scandal ’ , only twelve people sat in the public seats . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | About only 400 people lived within the corporation 's boundaries , and only about 1,500 worked in the area . |
| 17 | Only seven people lived through the crash — and all were seriously injured . |
| 18 | The success of the wine evening on the Friday of the October play , was a pleasant surprise to us all with approximately forty people staying after the performance for a glass of wine , a look round the set and backstage . |
| 19 | If someone was looking for The Bar in those days — because there was no name written up or sign for it , no lights at all , and not even a number on the door , Madame liked to keep it that way even when she did n't have to any more — I mean when she opened up we may all have been in a sort of hiding , and not many people knew about The Bar and our life there , but it was n't that way later , and now you know we can have lights and advertising and you see boys queueing up outside every night , very public , and I like to see that — but in those days , in those days if somebody arranged to meet you for a date there , and it was their first time and they were n't sure how to find us , you 'd joke with them , and you 'd say well first there is a wedding , and then there 's a death , and there 's the news , and then there 's us ; meaning , first there 's the shop with the flowers , the real ones , and next door to that is the undertaker 's with the fake flowers in the window , china , all dusty ; and then the newsagent 's and magazine shop , and then right next door to that is The Bar . |
| 20 | well if there 's , if there 's not many people sitting in the day room , perhaps we can pinch one , all the stools seem to be taken there are n't many spare in there , can we pinch a couple of chairs please ? |
| 21 | But there are still many people shocked by the events of the past few days , who never expected the Army to be prepared to launch rocket and artillery attacks on civilian targets . |
| 22 | Job information hardly any people went to the there . |
| 23 | The boom in golf is player-led , with more young people coming into the game and many older people also taking it up . |
| 24 | It expanded from 47,000 people in 1841 to 102,000 in 1901 and in 1860 nearly 150,000 people came to the town by excursion train in two successive days . |
| 25 | About 7,000 people work on the project there and at Filton , Bristol . |
| 26 | About 7,000 people work on the project there and at Filton , Bristol . |
| 27 | Not a drop of rain fell on Bank Holiday Monday and about 2,200 people travelled on the ACE . |
| 28 | About 3,500 cases of malignant melanoma ( cancerous moles ) are diagnosed in Britain every year — and about 800 people die of the disease . |
| 29 | There were reports of about 100 people killed during the fighting for Dire Dawa , where the local population had resisted the entry of EPRDF forces . |
| 30 | All told , about 2,000 people benefited from the relief programme . |