Example sentences of "[art] people [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | All the peoples traded in the products of their particular region , exchanging goods by means of barter . |
| 2 | He looked at the people drinking in the restaurant bar , and thought the same . |
| 3 | In reality , Scotland 's premier stadium-fillers have always striven for scale on a windswept , neo-Celtic level ; grand dreams , grander schemes , the proverbial men of the people reaching for the impossible . |
| 4 | On the Alpha , DEC said that roll-out of Alpha-based systems continues on schedule but that because it is a major programme , it will continue to take several quarters to implement fully — and rather than talk numbers of machines or orders , the company chose to focus on the people writing for the thing , saying that more than 500 Alpha AXP applications from partners and 50 software products are available today . |
| 5 | the people come into the village |
| 6 | They have succeeded in corrupting many of the people charged with the protection of the Indians and forests . |
| 7 | A woman whose husband was shot dead is to get compensation , even though the people charged with the killing were cleared . |
| 8 | It tells how the attractions of the women of Moab , a region to the east of the Dead Sea in which the Israelites were encamped , led the people to join in the worship of their gods , and how ‘ Israel yoked himself to Baal of Peor ’ , the chief of the local deities ( 25.3 ) . |
| 9 | If you believe that women , and not planners , should be the people to decide on the size of families they have , then this is the book for you . |
| 10 | As at Guiseley , the people walked round the church until it was possible for all to join hands in a big circle . |
| 11 | Many medieval farms in Wales consisted of only one main building , the so called ‘ longhouse ’ : farm animals were kept at one end of the house and the people lived at the other . |
| 12 | Peace immediately sent the news ratings down by one-third , but the pulling power of radio in its heyday is shown in the fact that 45 per cent of the people listened to the half-hour general election speeches in the 1945 campaign — feats of concentration ( however imperfect ) inconceivable in 1990 . |
| 13 | The two men of faith put the true interpretation on the facts ( Numbers 13:30 ) , but the people listened to the ten prophets of doom , with their tales of giants and grasshoppers , God , and the good land , was forgotten . |
| 14 | At a time when the BBC has declared its object of cutting its staff from 25,000 , it has added an extra thousand to the people employed in the department concerned . |
| 15 | If the people know from the start where the researcher draws the line , then the problem does not arise . |
| 16 | It was from the people gathered on the rim of this amphitheatre in the dunes that the sighing came . |
| 17 | Seeing the flowers from tepees , the people gathered on the hill and sang and danced their thanks to the Great Spirits who had sent the blooms as a sign of their forgiveness . |
| 18 | As has been pointed out in Chapter Two , an integrated education programme should be based on the views of all the people participating in the various educational processes , but the final success of a given course depends , to a large extent , on the motivation of the students . |
| 19 | This was when the people living on the Georgia coast in the southeast corner of the United States began growing and eating maize . |
| 20 | Seventy per cent of the people living on the estate had no wage and depended on state benefits . |
| 21 | They found that the people living on the estate did not have such intimate contact with their extended kin network . |
| 22 | The people living on the estates , especially the elderly , tended to be isolated , and a number of new residents felt lonely and insecure . |
| 23 | ‘ Wo n't that seem odd — to the people living on the ground floor — to have everything around them squashed up ? ’ |
| 24 | This expropriation took the form of tithes , taxes and labour in kind in return for the physical protection of the people living on the land by the noble landowners . |
| 25 | As the situation went from bad to worse , the people living near the volcano became increasingly distressed , and many tried to leave St Pierre , heading for Fort-de-France , Martinique 's second town . |
| 26 | Some of the Maritime school go further and ask the question , ‘ Who are We ? ; and answer it by pointing out that We are not just the people living in the United Kingdom today . |
| 27 | Aberdeen ( 200 000 people ) has attracted over a quarter of all the people living in the Highlands . |
| 28 | They were used to store the very large volume of offerings and tribute that came in from the townspeople and from the people living in the surrounding countryside ; administrating the inflow and redistribution of this temple tribute was a major function of the Minoan temple . |
| 29 | And er you know , I feel that people are only too ready to believe erm others you know er er to believe er others you know er er to believe the people living in the flats . |
| 30 | When the Boundary Commission looks at these matters over every 10 years or so , demography and demographic conditions have to be considered , and it is less easy than it appears on paper simply to provide consistency in terms of the demographic relationship of the people living in the country and the number of Members representing them in the House . |