Example sentences of "people [pron] [vb base] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there were some people you know on a smallish farm , they did n't have an oil engine , then they would have to turn the scrapper by hand . |
| 2 | It draws people who come for a fun day out and it provides for the serious ornithologist . |
| 3 | People who overdose in a suicidal attempt may take one or several drugs but generally ingest at most one pack of each . |
| 4 | Equally there seem to be many people who stay for a short period , and then just move on . |
| 5 | Mm I mean er why do n't they do it on like the square , how big your house is because that way you could I know it 's not far when people who live in a great big old house do n't have to pay as much cos if this I mean Uncle Trevor and Aunty they 've got a massive great house have n't they ? |
| 6 | Frequently too , people who live in a particular geographic location combine together to form a pressure group if their neighbourhood has been earmarked by government for the siting of , for example , a new motorway or nuclear power station or the dumping of nuclear waste which is considered to constitute a substantial threat to their safety and health . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm slightly worried about people who adopt as a standard things that have n't been implemented . |
| 8 | A newly elected collegium , it was announced on Sept. 16 , included " competent people who think in a modern way and who have stood the tests of the crisis " , according to a spokesman . |
| 9 | A large proportion of the people who work at a nuclear plant — a total of several hundred for each reactor — are concerned with ‘ health physics ’ , the official description for radiation protection . |
| 10 | This is especially so for people who work on a continuous basis as casual workers . |
| 11 | What the people who work in a local government planning office do is constrained by a further dominant ideology at some higher level of centrality . |
| 12 | People who work in a particular business tend to read the relevant trade and technical press , whether in the UK it be The Grocer , Marketing , Electronics Weekly , the British Baker , or whatever . |
| 13 | CAT is a donee-based tax in which the more people who share in a particular inheritance the lower the tax will be . |