Example sentences of "[prep] the people [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Will he now change his mind or shall we have to wait for the people to do that for him ? |
| 2 | It is also something which has important consequences for the people studying those disciplines . |
| 3 | Well , I 'd like to go back and talk to you about the exclusion clauses though , and the purchasing power of the people buying these things . |
| 4 | The top 10 per cent of the people receive half the annual revenue . |
| 5 | Most respondents ( 76% ) relied on their own medical adviser to agree the protocols for purposes of payment , but only 49% of the people making these decisions had any expertise in asthma care ; 15% relied on individuals who were not trained in medicine or nursing . |
| 6 | They will go to a funeral if someone in the family , a friend or a colleague , has died , but most of the people attending such a service will have little , if any , regular contact with their local church . |
| 7 | This religion of the people has some similarity to Calvin 's theology of the city of God on earth , though in a more modern and less rigorous setting than the one which Calvin tried to realize in his lifetime in the city of Geneva : |
| 8 | And whether the erm the kind of ideology or the ideas are christian or Marxist erm you 've got to wait till the overwhelming mass of the people see that truth before er it can be effective . |
| 9 | Even the World Bank has proposed that in Latin America , where one per cent of the people own half the land , they should pay a heavy income tax . |
| 10 | I might add that Filmer 's notion of dominion as originally granted to Adam included both ownership of property and authority over men and here Filmer was trading on erm erm the feudal tradition of erm property erm erm erm dominion erm entails that if you have property rights in a certain tract of territory you also have political authority over the people inhabiting that or that territory you know , think of a straightforward standard lord of the manor and his service you know , he has property rights in the territory , he also has authority over erm the individuals who live off that territory . |
| 11 | It maintained the opening note of disappointment throughout a confusing account of the Ceausescus ' rise to power and their fatal misjudgment which led to the people entering that famously well-wardrobed bedroom . |
| 12 | Excuse me , to the people doing this , what 's it , this project . |
| 13 | He would not find anyone among the people celebrating those events who was in favour of the legislation except his own Parliamentary Private Secretary who was also present , but that is to be expected . |
| 14 | It was quite clear to me that 260,000 people would be reduced very substantially and that for every person who was made redundant in British Steel , seven people were affected — another three in the family , plus the people serving that family in the shops and in other ways . |