Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] people of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sack should be in certain Karrimor agents ' shops by now , priced £350 , but at present it will only fit people of average size or bigger — those who take , say , size 42–47 boots . |
| 2 | The parents charter does not merely inform people of the rights that they already have and which are approved by Parliament , but contains a list of proposals on the privatisation of the inspectorate . |
| 3 | He only liked people of his own generation . |
| 4 | The liberals wanted to promote a modern secular understanding of religion as a largely private matter which should be pursued in such a manner as not to offend people of other religions . |
| 5 | ‘ I will now beg leave to make some observations on the distance of the Veterinary College from the Town — first — because the Society has no rival to dread in an establishment of this nature — secondly — whether the Infirmary is situated a Mile further or nearer it will not prevent people of sense from sending their Horses there — thirdly — the resident pupils being distant from places of dissipation , it will protect their morals and they will employ their time in study . |
| 6 | In the early years of the regime it was necessary to rely on the ‘ retained cadres ’ from the Nationalist government because the working and peasant classes , though loyal politically , could not produce people of sufficient literacy to staff the bureaucracy . |
| 7 | Soon , my brother and I knew , it must separate us , and we lived these last months together in the mutual kindness that ( I hope and imagine ) commonly exists between deeply attached people of whom one has been condemned by the doctors — but we might both be condemned . |
| 8 | Erm often accusing people of abusing you when you were a child is quite , in some ways , quite a risky thing to do because they , understandably perhaps , get rather huffy about it . |
| 9 | We are here to serve people of Cambridge and it 's quite clear that the people of Cambridge do want good services , they want , they want services which which improve the quality of life in in in the cities and this is precisely what is erm spending is there to do . |
| 10 | Where do people of my age go ? |
| 11 | Almost all philosophically minded people of Clement 's age , except for only a tiny handful of Epicureans , took it for granted that the order of the world reflects a designing providential hand . |