Example sentences of "[conj] people [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cos you 're inflicting , you 're inflicting or , or people at the very bottom of the scale , you 're forced to operate below a level of subsistence because inequalities . |
| 2 | A Department of the Environment report on eleven such schemes found that there was often little or no consultation with tenants over the future of their homes and only a small proportion of the purchasers were local authority tenants or people on the council waiting list . |
| 3 | So , encouraging tenants or people on the waiting list to move into private ownership is one way of releasing more of our own stock for those in need . ’ |
| 4 | Encouraging tenants or people on the waiting list to move into private ownership is one way of releasing more of our own stock for those in need . ’ |
| 5 | Frequently , unmarried brothers of the husband or wife may share the house , as might more distant relatives , or people from the same village in Pakistan may come as lodgers . |
| 6 | But there 's more than one way of finding out what you need to know — start a conversation around the subject , use friends or people in the news as examples — you can find out how he feels about their situation , without relating it directly to you . |
| 7 | The concept of narcissism had been developed , in part , through work with patients who seemed to withdraw all their libido into themselves , and had no interest in any things or people in the external world . |
| 8 | We believed that people at the conference would want to examine the validity of those claims and that official government representation would therefore be valuable . |
| 9 | This legislation requires that people for the first thirteen weeks that they are unemployed have the right to look for a job which they have experience in and enjoy doing , but after 13 weeks they are required to take any job that comes along . |
| 10 | The growing number of men , women and children with AIDS and the fact that people with the disease now survive longer , have made ever more pressing demands on our Home Care teams . |
| 11 | It is found that people with the rare form are no more likely to be smokers than are those with no lung cancer . |
| 12 | Will he note that it is rare for a mosque to be locked and that people of the Islamic faith remain in their mosques to ensure that they are not vandalised . |
| 13 | Given the distribution of scores among their controls , we estimate that people above the upper quartile had at least a twofold higher risk of being admitted to hospital for acute myocardial infarction than did people with a score of zero . |
| 14 | Quite apart from the fact that they find it very interesting , I think that people outside the university would be pleased to know that a course of such down to earth practical is taught in a place which they sometimes regard as being rather airy fairy . |
| 15 | A further problem of the street quota system is that people on the busiest streets are not always a good sample of the general population . |
| 16 | A number of people would have their wages reviewed immediately , and the wage structure would be altered so that people on the lowest wages would get proportionately higher increases . |
| 17 | The idea is that people on the street could tell at a glance that I 'm a proctor , which of course only the more informed of them can . |
| 18 | A police spokesman said that people in the camp were in a ‘ very emotional ’ state . |
| 19 | This ‘ death by bread alone ’ concept means that people in the West have lost sight of spiritual and eternal values and now only perceive material and temporal aims . |
| 20 | There is of course a fine line between ‘ direct support ’ and ‘ regular monitoring ’ but the main distinction is that people in the previous category were visited at least once a week to give support or help , whereas people in the ‘ monitoring only ’ category were visited about once a fortnight or once a month so that the development officer could ‘ see how things were going ’ . |
| 21 | By the end of the 1980s , it was confidently expected that people in the Soviet Union would enjoy a super-abundance of goods and the leisure time to appreciate them . |
| 22 | The mother of one of the victims maintained that although the girls were referred to in court only by their first names to protect them from reprisals , she was particularly worried that people in the court 's public gallery knew who the girl was . |
| 23 | There is no reason to think that people in the past may not have had a profound understanding of God , an understanding which will illuminate one 's own . |
| 24 | It was the thing about er , my understanding is that people in the area and it 's probably the most densified area in the whole of the town are very very cagey about this ! |
| 25 | So that a little bit of simple planning is a way round inheritance for the benefit of the children and it 's usually the children that people in the end want to benefit . |
| 26 | So being on supplementary benefit was one of the obvious things that people in the dayroom , chose to look at , cos it affected most of them . |
| 27 | That 's erm would you say that obviously it 's a b it 's very difficult to actually ask cos it to some extent you 'd be generalizing anyway , would you say that people in the flats , do stick together or or do you get some people who isolated and just k just do n't have any flats ? |
| 28 | ‘ It is certainly the case that people in the same social class have many things in common — the same monopoly or lack of access a scarce resources , for example ; the same good or bad standards of housing ; the same access to , or restrictions on , educational opportunity ; the same shared experiences of comfort , travel , hardship or enjoyment . |
| 29 | Led by USAID , they argued that people in the Third World were poor because they were having too many children . |
| 30 | There will be redundancies in the Army , as in every armed force of any significance in the western world , but the Army Board intends that redundancies should be spread evenly throughout the Army and that people in the regiments facing amalgamation will not be discriminated against or at a disadvantage , compared with those whose regiments may not be so affected . |