Example sentences of "[prep] people [v-ing] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The idea of the organization of peoples according to descent was one of the most common in the past . |
| 2 | The American show includes film of people leaping to death from blazing buildings and other sickening true stories . |
| 3 | But for our last point we had to rely on being half-right about two issues : we rightly predicted a Common Market between the US and Canada — but wrongly thought it would also include Mexico and Venezuela ; and we predicted that unemployment would rise sharply in the West , causing more flexible working patterns — but were over-optimistic about the implications , seeing masses of people returning to school in middle life and then starting a new career . |
| 4 | And through the window , only the sight of people going to church … |
| 5 | One contributor said that one could see the contrast between the traffic volume of people going to work in the morning in West Belfast compared to East Belfast , and also the quality of cars . |
| 6 | These low thresholds gave an urban population embracing about 90 per cent of the total , and the rural/urban differences shown in Table 5.6 , which reveals that the greatest contrasts are to be found in cars per household and the percentage of people travelling to work on public transport ( both related to each other and to the low density of rural areas ) ; the percentage in social classes I and II ; the rate of unemployment ; and the percentage of those working in manufacturing . |
| 7 | a farmer a fa how the farmer makes his money , it 's all like people going to university and how they get grants well farmers get grants grants |
| 8 | I mean we support The Porch financially and with people going to work there precisely for the same reason . |
| 9 | And if I could put that half a million pounds in context , as I tried to do in an amendment in Council yesterday evening , that is almost exactly the increase in charging for people going to day care facilities . |
| 10 | Sir , — I am not at all surprised to read ( EADT March 10 ) that Mr Ken Steward of Cross Green Farm , Cockfield is unhappy about people objecting to Atlas Aggregates proposal to excavate sand and gravel from his land , as he has a vested interest in the project being approved . |
| 11 | Dance of the Romarias : Romaria is the name given to people travelling to church festivals , often many miles across the island . |
| 12 | Possibly caused by people returning to work , I think those are the ones that really opened up the community and dropped people on either side of the fence as opposed to sitting on top of it . |