Example sentences of "which people " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pubs are , to quote Ben Davis , ‘ the public buildings in which people feel most at home ’ , and in its truest sense the public house is exactly what it says — a house for the public . |
| 2 | The eighties was not the decade in which people abandoned railways , not anyway in Britain . |
| 3 | Certainly she could not compete on anything like equal terms with Hilda Doolittle , the poet H.D. who , having mythologised her relations with Pound in a roman à clef many years ago , did it all over again just before her death in End to Torment , a supposed ‘ memoir ’ which people seem disposed to take literally , though in its scattiness it may well be as fictionalised as the novel had been . |
| 4 | It is not the image which people like you want to know about , but it is true . |
| 5 | Greig explores the way in which people choose to remember the past through the reactions of the boy 's sister ( her angry rejection ) , the boy 's lover ( her confused sadness ) , and the impartial perspective of a young girl 's view from 1989 . |
| 6 | But there are the illuminations , miles of them along the seafront , which people really do come to admire , driving slowly and reverently down the tatty Golden Mile . |
| 7 | But there remained too many blocks to opportunity after schooling , and prejudice about the age at which people could begin a new career . |
| 8 | This was especially so in our case because the field-worker was a female within a masculine occupational culture and quickly identified as Catholic by the usual means through which people in Northern Ireland ‘ tell ’ identity ( Burton 1979 ) . |
| 9 | for instance , ‘ it does not need an exceptionally vivid imagination to realise the extent to which people of different ages would become obsessed by the discrepancies arising in a society in which age was the only distinguishing feature ’ . |
| 10 | Instead , you need to wise up about how the industry works and which people in recording companies are the most influential when it comes to signing and selling musicians , work . |
| 11 | That is a trap which people get into with acts and it is very dangerous for both sides . |
| 12 | He managed lan Dury before Dury was famous , and City Lights provided the suit that David Bowie wore on the cover of ‘ Pin Ups ’ and which people were forever coming into Let It Rock trying to get copied , much to Malcolm 's chagrin . |
| 13 | The speeches of ministers have reiterated the themes that it is not the job of government to solve as many problems as previously , that ministers should be more attentive to the interests of taxpayers when spending public money , that ‘ real ’ jobs will be created and sustained not by government subsidy but by workers making goods which people will buy , that the criterion of ‘ value for money ’ be applied to public-sector activities , and that the private sector should be encouraged because it creates the wealth which the public sector requires . |
| 14 | It seems to me you have to start from the fact that your role in the community is to produce goods and services which people want . |
| 15 | In the process we helped to reshape the whole of ICI 's redundancy policy and the terms under which people left the company . |
| 16 | The reasons for this include both the design of the projects — ranging from the crops selected to the land to which people have moved — and the quality of their management . |
| 17 | He argued that society is at bottom a system of organization for producing the goods on which people depend for their life . |
| 18 | These new techniques brought about an increase in the things which people needed to control for production , especially land , herds , tools , and even the slaves who became of importance at this stage . |
| 19 | For many it is a strange and difficult experience , one which people who have always lived in a nuclear family find hard to understand . |
| 20 | In other words it would mean that battles could be won which people have previously thought could not even be fought . |
| 21 | That 's not strictly true , of course ; roads and buildings stand out because of the lights Which people kindly leave on for us . |
| 22 | First , a comprehensive civil disobedience campaign was begun by which people severed , or minimised , all the contact points by which they were bound to the Israeli occupation authority . |
| 23 | The struggle reflects a revolution in mass consciousness , by which people have come to realise that ideas and aspirations must be embodied in manifest acts if reality is to be changed . |
| 24 | Amnesty International says it has learned of ‘ only a fraction ’ of the cases in which people were imprisoned for their beliefs . |
| 25 | The money sloshing around allowed new wave companies to agglomerate , service the raiders and beneficiaries of Big Bang and create demands which people did n't even know they had . |
| 26 | This administrative process is very slow and limits the rate at which people can be sent back from Hong Kong . |
| 27 | A large party , in and out of which people had evidently flowed like water circulating in a swimming pool . |
| 28 | There , a gale of competition swept Britain from a Soviet-style queueing system to one in which people could quickly and conveniently borrow as much as they were able to service , from any of a wide choice of lenders . |
| 29 | The fate of attempted reforms has only added to the north 's alienation , as Catholic bishops have time and again pulled Dublin 's politicians by the ear — ‘ a question ’ , as the senior archbishop put it earlier this month , ‘ of legislators respecting the moral convictions to which people adhere , and which are influenced by their membership of the church . ’ |
| 30 | Given Hobbes 's view of egocentric human nature , according to which people always act in such a way as to produce pleasure and avoid pain , it is plain how they will behave in an ungoverned state of nature . |