Example sentences of "of [adj] people [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The general concern over the welfare of deaf people led to the formation of more institutes and to centres for the deaf being opened in towns and cities where previously none had existed . |
| 2 | It is not simply that a large number of multiply-deprived people live in the urban cores ( Hall and Laurence , 1981 ) ; there are individuals and households where this applies , but highest unemployment rates are frequently encountered in areas of new public housing that would not be identified as inadequate in census surveys . |
| 3 | The opening ceremony was managed for us by Cosmo PR in Tokyo and a specially selected audience of 120 people came to the event including around 70 customers from the four business areas represented at KITEC . |
| 4 | The primary emphasis of the work is on the support networks of old people living in the community ; that is , all those people who provide company , advice , help and other kinds of support which make continued independent living possible . |
| 5 | If you have editing facilities , you could edit together a succession of short " clips " of different people talking about the same subject . |
| 6 | We were also glad to see 82-year-old Wally ‘ Left Hand Down ’ Perkins who has selflessly devoted the past 33 years to the unpaid unofficial work of guiding people reversing into the bays in a car park in Ipswich . |
| 7 | There were reports about groups of ordinary people taking to the streets , holding hands , approaching armoured carriers and calling for peace . |
| 8 | He arrives in Massillon , Ohio , to discover the entire town of 30,000 people preparing for the big football game the next day . |
| 9 | Police and motoring organisations warned that drivers heading for the capital are certain to face lengthy delays as thousands of extra people take to the roads . |
| 10 | Of 2,000 people interviewed by the BBC , over 90 per cent had heard of the CAB , and of these , a quarter had contacted one . |
| 11 | When the alternative seemed to be squabbles and point-scoring , many of these people decided at the last minute to give John Major the benefit of the doubt . |
| 12 | Hopefully most of these people wash in the morning and use a shower ( those who do n't are probably compensated for by those who take baths ) … 5.3 billion showers equals an annual consumption of something like 160 billion gallons of water a year . |
| 13 | Her friend , Christina Carter — whose sister , Daniella , 15 , was one of three people killed in the blast — required an hour 's surgery . |
| 14 | His removal , reportedly suggested by Gen. Pinochet himself after an internal army inquiry , was accompanied by the arrest of three people connected with the case and the placing of a restriction order on another six . |
| 15 | The young people were from June 22 demanding the release of three people arrested following the erection of a barricade on June 21 . |
| 16 | He caricatures a host of little people shaped by the 1980s , from hillbillies-turned-entrepreneurs to fund-raisers who have learnt to make money out of charity . |
| 17 | Everything possible needs to be tried if , as the numbers of elderly people increase by the year , the sought-after goal of independent life at home in the community is to be achieved . |
| 18 | For example in Newcastle , Foster et al , 1976 , had shown , from an assessment of a sample of elderly people living in the community , that even though dementia sufferers received more social and health services support than other groups , nonetheless they still had greater unmet needs than other groups of dependent elderly people . |
| 19 | For example , the proportion of elderly People living in the cities seems destined to rise , and many of these will be single-person households . |
| 20 | No one entered Harry Short 's house without an invitation and to find Kelly Connor of all people sitting across the breakfast table was like a practical joke in very poor taste . |
| 21 | When he stood for Parliament numbers of poor people crowded round the hustings demanding the payment of outstanding bills . |
| 22 | The Commission was made up of a wide range of eminent people involved in the existing mental health services , and it took evidence from a variety of those involved in the care of this group . |
| 23 | A group of extraordinary people contributed to the series . |
| 24 | Whole peoples were now to be regenerated , not by the patient labours of obscure administrators toiling at their life 's work in obscure places , but by the brilliant schemes of brilliant people flitting about the corridors of power . |
| 25 | The number of injured people helped by the service runs into many hundreds . |
| 26 | mass forms of musical practice which are based on the musical activity of many people interacting at the same time and in the same way — forms which structure bodily movements and processes , and which enable bodily experience to become an aesthetically mediated pleasure ( ibid : 228 ) . |
| 27 | In the 11 weeks up to March 20 , a total of 46 people died on the snow in Austria . |
| 28 | Your estimate of 707 people killed by the Basque terrorist group , ETA , in 1968–90 is too high by at least 100 ( December 1st ) . |
| 29 | An investigation will be conducted of the motivations and support networks of those people passing through the screening and return procedures in Hong Kong . |
| 30 | ‘ The congregation tends to be a poor one and there are quite a number of coloured people living in the district . ’ |