Example sentences of "people 's [noun pl] [to-vb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is arguable , too , that he was over-anxious to dismiss people 's attempts to preserve the family as ‘ ideology ’ , one distracting attention from the class basis of fascism . |
| 2 | For all these criticisms , however , Reich 's study is perhaps the best empirical example of how politics , and nationally-based politics in particular , is simultaneously the result not only of daily life ( and people 's attempts to construct an understanding of their particular experience ) but also of deep-lying social sexual and psychic structures . |
| 3 | Rationalization refers to people 's efforts to construct an explanation for their fallibility which allows them to own it without feeling bad about it . |
| 4 | But unfortunately there are few descriptive accounts of people 's efforts to reduce the likelihood that an event will occur , perhaps because effective responses are self-evident , or because they are not easily assessed by investigators in that successful action will have removed the difficulty . |
| 5 | They have their local medicine and the witch doctors try and cure them of their diseases first so they would even bore holes into people 's skulls to let the spirits out for headaches and things like that . |
| 6 | Five hundred deputies called for a session of the Congress of People 's Deputies to formalize the dissolution of the Soviet Union , but the call was not heeded . |
| 7 | The manoeuvring goes on : Boris Yeltsin appears to have backtracked slightly on the powers he has assumed to by-pass the Supreme Soviet , although he still intends to hold the planned referendum ; meanwhile the parliament has called a full session of the Congress of People 's Deputies to impeach the president , but there is uncertainty about whether the hardliners can actually muster a sufficient majority . |
| 8 | On the same day the USSR Supreme Soviet refused an Armenian request to convene an emergency session of the Congress of People 's Deputies to discuss the crisis . |
| 9 | Insurance companies use people 's savings to acquire a range or portfolio of assets which they then manage in such a way as to make profit , whilst at the same time providing cover against contingencies . |
| 10 | They are not therefore directly related to people 's requirements to hold a medium of exchange . |