Example sentences of "people at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Treaties for the protection of minority peoples at the end of the First World War provide obvious examples . |
| 2 | The immediate-return system is most likely to be found in localities in which the growing-season is long or year-round and in which ambient temperatures make the storing and preservation of food difficult for peoples at the palaeolithic level of culture . |
| 3 | The people at the coffee shop readily accepted me as one of their own . |
| 4 | Obviously , the Nimbus pilot was at fault for allowing the other people at the launch point to influence his judgement . |
| 5 | This particular accident , like so many others , would never have happened if just one of the dozen or so people at the launch point had recognised the danger and shouted ‘ stop ’ . |
| 6 | Some people at the church door caught his eye and smiled and bowed respectfully but others looked away and exchanged glances with grinning friends . |
| 7 | The people at the front were shouting at him , the news of his message was running through the crowd like a grass fire . |
| 8 | I shall speak to the people at the bridgehead . ’ |
| 9 | The people at the next table moved their chairs forward imperceptibly . |
| 10 | He moaned more loudly and the people at the next table held their drinks in mid-air . |
| 11 | ‘ Had that not happened we would 've had a lot more people at the rally . |
| 12 | ROYAL ENGAGEMENTS The Princess of Wales visits the OUTSET employment scheme for disabled people at the Globe Town Neighbourhood Centre , 62 Roman Road , London E2 . |
| 13 | For this afternoon 's rematch of the Welsh Cup finalists — Neath won that one 14-13 before 58,000 people at the Arms Park — Stradey has an upper limit of 18,700 and , if last season 's equivalent is anything to go by , every available space may be needed . |
| 14 | Allowing for 120 proxy votes and some 50 people at the AGM , less than half the AFBD membership bothered to register their opinion . |
| 15 | The gesture was a symbolic expression of the abhorrence felt by growing numbers of people at the threat to the future of the African elephant posed by a particularly bloody trade and will have gained widespread support . |
| 16 | My people at the PFA feel that until the League get together and show there is a practical job for me to do , they do n't see why they should let me go . ’ |
| 17 | Ms Gallacher , 20 , a hairdresser , told the court that there were about 500 people at the party in a warehouse or old school . |
| 18 | More than most Europeans , the British were still a lively , distinctive people at the end of the twentieth century — and not only for geographical reasons . |
| 19 | Perhaps the secret of all these people at the top is that they have vertigo but out of a feeling of ‘ the show must go on ’ they smile in public and are sick off stage . |
| 20 | Instead of reporting the number of people at the gig , journalists query the 2 or 300 empty seats in the hall and question whether the band is really gaining popularity . |
| 21 | She too , in spite of the dances and concerts they had been attending lately , knew far fewer people at the station than Rose . |
| 22 | Now , it is Kingfisher which has become a favourite — not because the people at the helm have great shopkeeping flair but because their cautious and unflamboyant management style has created a retailing empire of solid reliability . |
| 23 | A gunman wearing a hunting outfit killed 13 people at the University of Montreal yesterday before committing suicide . |
| 24 | THE people at the Museum of the Moving Image are becoming rather excited about a new exhibit being installed on Monday Dec 11 : a full organza dress , lined with peach silk crepe de chine , and decorated with ivory re-embroidered lace , crystal beading , peach silk chiffon and some hand-dyed rosettes . |
| 25 | EUROPEAN Community leaders will move quickly this week to reassure the Soviet Union that their support for the future ‘ unity ’ of the German people at the weekend EC summit is conditional on the maintenance of peace and stability in Europe . |
| 26 | Although Georgian architecture is now so popular and so familiar , its introduction must have shocked some people at the time . |
| 27 | An inquest by New York newspapers into a subway fire in Brooklyn that killed two people at the turn of the year is making plain the consequences of all this neglect . |
| 28 | The campaign waged by both public and hospital staff was one of the biggest in east London 's political history : over seven hundred people at the York Hall , the old boxing venue , twenty thousand signed petitions , a two-hour protest strike and the first-ever hospital work-in , which kept the hospital running for a month and treated eleven hundred emergencies after its official date of closure . |
| 29 | One time , the people at the hospital did n't even tell Gloria that Baby had been moved . |
| 30 | The idea of the UFO freak suggests boozy , bearded eccentrics or ladies in twin sets in contact with Venus , but the people at the Communion show were a disappointingly ordinary bunch . |