Example sentences of "[art] people [verb] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This had been so ‘ from ancient times ’ ( izdrevle ) , and the peoples living within this vast area were said to be undertaking their seasonal migrations with Russian permission . |
| 2 | After a while I began to understand some of the noises that the people made to each other . |
| 3 | Among the professional politicians there could be little opposition , partly because the key men had been arrested but largely because all attempts to rouse the people made by those still at liberty failed dismally . |
| 4 | or whatever , just let them know roughly what you 're doing , cos , all they get is a tape , it gives them an idea of what sort of things were happening at that time , any words they ca n't pick up if she 's cooking , maybe that 's something she was making or whatever , erm , in the please write the first names and details , why you know them , of all the people speaking on this side of the tape , in order in which they speak on the tape in the first , first instance , right , you know , so now Carla , my husband , myself , Lee and , you do n't need to repeat them again after that |
| 5 | As far as the people living in this area are concerned , it would be very valuable to have the traffic diverted as from next January . |
| 6 | Not that it is impossible , but practical considerations of gaining access to situations and the confidence of the people involved in any reasonable length of time mean that one will probably study the situation from one side or the other . |
| 7 | Among the people involved in these conceptual developments were Andrei Sakharov in the USSR , Edward Teller in the USA and in the British universities G. P. Thomson at Imperial College and Peter Thonemann in Oxford . |
| 8 | It was in 1927 for example that Kenneth Macpherson speculated whether those early film audiences had not just been distracted and drawn mindlessly from the streets but rather it might have been a case of ‘ the people getting in some dim way the fact that there was something under their eyes , a sense of life and expectancy ’ . |
| 9 | He had expected her to drift away , but of all the people connected with that unhappy time in his life , she was the one who stayed . |
| 10 | ‘ We tried to encourage the people to work with each other , and talk to politicians , because they argued a lot about what they were going to do all the time , ’ he said . |
| 11 | As we have seen Kenneth Macpherson had felt that the earlier films had been awful but nevertheless he suspected that ‘ the people got in some dim way the fact that here was something growing under their eyes ’ , that the movies had ‘ a sense of life and expectancy ’ . |
| 12 | Erm secondly , I 'm not a statistician , I am unable to comment about all the technicalities of the the various assumptions that go into things but some of the people sitting around this table will know that I 've been in Yorkshire and Humberside for quite some time . |
| 13 | He immediately started to watch the people arriving from that sidestreet . |
| 14 | If you 're confused by the latest hi-tech advances in stereo TV or Satellite Television these are the people to cut through all the irritating jargon . |
| 15 | It is potentially one of the most edifying aspects of our society , a great asset in terms of building a positive image , but the behaviour of some of the people working in this profession , evident in the sort of bad manners quoted above , leaves much to be desired . |
| 16 | Public affairs , local authority , government , financial , and charity public relations all call for different talents so the people working in these areas often have very different educational backgrounds and work experience from those doing consumer public relations . |
| 17 | ‘ I know what you 're saying , ’ said Mo , ‘ but a lot of the people working in those offices are on such low pay they 're on income support themselves . ’ |
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| 19 | Unwittingly perhaps , Cardinal Glemp reflected this when he enjoined Jews not to speak from ‘ the position of a people raised above all others ’ and added , in a classic restatement of the myth of Jewish omnipotence : ‘ Your power is in the mass media , at your immediate disposal in many countries . |