Example sentences of "[conj] [det] people [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The trust aims to challenge the legality of the exclusion order , made under the 1986 Public Order Act , deeming two or more people walking towards the stones to be a criminal procession . |
| 2 | I mean the trouble with group selectionistic thinking is you , you completely discount the costs that some people pay for the benefits of others and so oh well , you know everybody benefits from mothers erm having children and sacrificing themselves to their offspring . |
| 3 | We started our 1964 test with the words : ‘ Sun-capped Dolomites and the distant roar and squeal of one of the works rally cars scrambling its way up the Gavia Pass — this is perhaps the image that some people have of the big Austin-Healey at work . |
| 4 | So that these people go to the urban areas to get the jobs , they 're not trained erm , for these jobs right and as a result , these wages rates still , may still be maintained despite the fact there are lots of people who are quite happy to take wages erm , in , take up jobs in the urban sectors , it 's the fact that sort of , employers do n't want them , because they do n't have the requisite skills . |
| 5 | Even though the obvious explanation of the abnormal rhythmicity is that these people suffer from the loss of the light/dark cycle as a time-cue , the result also indicates that the other time-cues ( social factors , activity , and meal times ) are inadequate . |
| 6 | He wrote two books : The Living Brain ( 1953 ) , which was popular science and was the first introduction that many people had to the brain , and a novel , Further Outlook ( 1956 ) , which was not very successful . |
| 7 | Britain 's current race relations legislation was framed , in the mid-1970s , on the assumption that all people aspired to the white indigenous way of life . |
| 8 | Everyone is able to choose how to behave in a given set of circumstances , although many people operate on the assumption that they can not choose and never give the alternatives a moment 's thought . |
| 9 | There is something that those people contribute to the group as a whole . |
| 10 | The potential problem would appear to be that any people attracted to the list as a result of these publications may take offence at what/how things are said . |
| 11 | So bad are those inconsistencies and such the maladroitness of parents that most people come through the ordeal of childhood permanently scarred and possessing what Harris calls an I 'm not O.K. , You 're O.K. personality . |
| 12 | It is a fact that most people bitten for the first time by their own dog are bitten in the bedroom . |
| 13 | Then she gradually took over the conversation , talking about her parents and the farm , saying she knew she was old-fashioned and some people laughed at the way she farmed , but she was happy with her methods and she liked the animals . |
| 14 | For of course the Pacific is still influenced by the Atlantic that once dominated the world : the ties that bound the world together yesterday — personified by the men and women who came out from the West to trade or to peddle religion , to colonize , annex , smuggle or fight — these ties still exist today , though more weakly , with less influence and fewer and fewer people enrolled in the process . |
| 15 | Over two thousand organisations receive it , your initial response has been very encouraging , and many people saying within the sector , that it is essential reading . |
| 16 | Hostility towards the policies and corrupt practices associated with the Court Whigs might have caused more and more people to look on the possibility of a Stuart Restoration with increasing sympathy ; the fact that the Stuarts never renounced their Catholicism and remained closely identified with France explains why this growing sympathy was never translated into an effective challenge to the Protestant succession as guaranteed by the Glorious Revolution and the Act of Settlement . |
| 17 | Tourism is a major growth area in the Middle East and more and more people attracted by the prospects of an enhanced salary , hotter climate and better lifestyle , are eager to become part of this development . |
| 18 | the the flats is er a a no go area sort of thing and a kid 'll come along and spray summat on a wall and next day three kids 'll come along and spray things on the wall , so that you 've got more and more graffiti going all over the place , more and more rubbish , more and more people coming to the flats just to get into trouble . |
| 19 | Inevitably , it would mean that there would be more and more people coming into the House to represent constituencies unless some kind of control were exercised . |
| 20 | On March 22-23 protest meetings and marches condemning the murder were reported to have taken place across the country , with one soldier being reported killed and several people wounded in the Policarpa slum district of Bogotá . |
| 21 | ( You may think this last one rather harsh but many people go through the hourly slice of bread and jam syndrome . ) |
| 22 | In England , Emily Davison died under the King 's horse , Anmer , at Tottenham Corner during the Derby , but more people worried about the injury to the horse . |
| 23 | First of all , laboratory experiments on hypnosis and memory are not conducted on stressed individuals , but most people interviewed by the police are upset . |
| 24 | Although the institute now has a staff of 28 at its Kensington headquarters , it copes with the collection only because few people know about the free public listening service that it offers . |
| 25 | They work at night because fewer people turn on the taps . |
| 26 | Johnson dwells on McQueen 's diction , complimenting him upon it and being told in return that the man had ‘ learned it by grammar ’ , and Johnson goes on to contemplate that such good English must have been acquired while such people served in the armed forces . |
| 27 | Only observation of parental intercourse is prohibited — a very significant exception in the light of basic psychoanalytic theory — but as these people sleep in the open around camp-fires and children can easily feign sleep , this rule is unenforceable . |
| 28 | Nine minutes past six , and it 's the morning of Friday , December the tenth , if you 've just joined us , as many people do after the six o'clock news , or even before the six o'clock news , welcome along to the programme . |
| 29 | He went down extremely well last Sunday , for example , when many people gathered outside the party 's central committee building in an unauthorised meeting and called on him to come out and talk to them . |
| 30 | In front of them stood a microphone on a stand , and then several rows of school chairs filling about a third of the area , though most people sat on the ground . |