Example sentences of "[vb pp] by people [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The party was a lively affair , with the young girl surrounded by people of her own age . |
| 2 | The 1986 English House Condition Survey found that 62% of dwellings lacking one or more basic facilities were occupied by people aged 60 and over . |
| 3 | Almost 40% of unfit properties , and 35% of properties in poor repair , were occupied by people aged 60 and over . |
| 4 | Between a third and a half of all short-term in-patient beds are occupied by people with nowhere suitable to go , and it is not uncommon for patients to stay in an acute hospital bed for one or two years when they should have been discharged for continued treatment in a more appropriate domestic environment within three months of their admission . |
| 5 | G. Britain has been occupied by people for a long , long time . |
| 6 | Daffodil Quentin 's runner , Pampering , had been flown in with five others owned by people on the train , all of whom were strolling around with rosettes and almost permanently smiling faces . |
| 7 | Nonetheless , the absence of labourers is more apparent than real : the local practice of not assessing goods of less value than £2 did not mean that any personal property owned by people of the labouring sort was generally ignored , for a good many men later taxed on wages owned goods worth anything up to £10 in 1522 , which ( unless perhaps having disposed of , say , a beast or two ) they managed to conceal from the taxman and convince him that they had nothing but the minimum in wages . |
| 8 | Is it not astounding that half of all crime in Britain is committed by people under the age of 21 ? |
| 9 | Had the Home Office research shown that the majority of offences within reported crime were thought to be committed by people on probation , under SSD supervision , or on community programmes , one could have understood a post-trial response . |
| 10 | Over 70% of break-ins are committed by people in the 14–21 age group , who rely on brute force or opportunism to gain entry . |
| 11 | He said that John was the conscience of the nation and reassured me that John would not be forgotten by people in Britain . |
| 12 | The tax break enjoyed by people with company cars distorts the market for new cars in Britain , putting private buyers at a disadvantage |
| 13 | The disease is most commonly caught by people on foreign holidays . |
| 14 | This must be done by people on all levels involved in health-care , including the insurance companies who could save themselves a fortune in claims . |
| 15 | Incoming material for stock , movements of stock , they can all be done by people on the admin course providing you can set a form up and say , go and do this . |
| 16 | Erm , nor I think are there any proposals to change the grading or pay honorarium to P As to reflect there work on these files , er , I 'm not sure whether the assumption that this would n't be taken into account by the W R is sound , because I think one of the principles that I recall was that he were meant to ensure that that each of these job evaluation panels had somebody from each office so that an account could be taken of the different practices , I mean I 'm sure that , I 'm sure that each of the three offices in the er deal with things in a different way , so that er what gets done by one person here is not necessarily done by people in Coventry and York , and that in fa in London , and that also holds good in the other way , I think . |
| 17 | The course of a cholera epidemic , for instance , can be reported and its causes investigated by means of excerpts from documents written by people at the time . |
| 18 | People want to read about real struggles in the sort of books written by people like Joanna Trollope and Mary Wesley . ’ |
| 19 | The food shortages suffered by people in Russia have been well publicised , but the effects of this on the country 's pets have been even more dramatic . |
| 20 | Volunteers in an experiment on the effects of prolonged starvation conducted by Ansel Keys in the 1950s did not report an increase in dreams about food , although their food intake was very low indeed — intended to match the conditions of deprivation suffered by people in places like Auschwitz . |
| 21 | It is the creation of a ‘ standard ’ enshrined in a ‘ god ’ that can be accepted by people from all countries and of all races that is utterly vital . |
| 22 | Roman Italy again provides an analogy : the roads built by people like Aemilius Lepidus in the first half of the second century physically facilitated the political and cultural unification of Italy in the course of the next 150 years . |
| 23 | It was an important step towards the ideal of interchangeable parts , and it went well with the nineteenth century transforming of craft activity into modern industry , remotely controlled by paper in the form of plans and drawings , prepared by people in a distant office and perhaps in a distant town . |
| 24 | A person sitting behind the steering wheel being pushed by people outside the vehicle , if he is acting in conjunction with those people . |
| 25 | Yes , but unfortunately it 's a different set of rules as regards the planning applications made by people for erm either caravans for residential purposes or for leisure purposes as those which were directed to use when we are judging a gipsy site erm as such . |
| 26 | But , as a consequence , musical decisions may be made by people with little or no real musical knowledge , sometimes without proper consultation . |
| 27 | A similar choice was made by people at other times in different parts of Britain . |
| 28 | The elections in Ajdabiya and Kufra were the same kind of apparently inappropriate action ; the demands for autonomy , for independence of the state made by people of whom two thirds are employed by it , seem also to require some explanation . |
| 29 | The Persons who inhabit the Cottages are chiefly poor Labouring People , who are induced to seek Habitations in the Forest for the Advantages of living Rent free , and having the Benefit of Pasturage for a Cow or a few Sheep , and of keeping Pigs in the Woods ; but many Encroachments have been made by People of Substance . |
| 30 | I think if the video was made by people of the age that were joyriding , it might deter them more than parents saying , Do n't do it . |