Example sentences of "[noun] people [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The government had concluded ‘ that it is quite wrong that we should build up artificial hopes ’ by allowing boat people to remain in the colony in the belief that they would be resettled . |
| 2 | The second most important association people have with the home is one of relaxation and comfort . |
| 3 | Mortality rates , however , are a very weak proxy of the benefit people received from the use of medical services . |
| 4 | No wonder people talked of the breakdown of the health service and turned in their thousands to complementary medicine . |
| 5 | A PEACE PEOPLE MARCH IN THE IRISH REPUBLICAN FALLS ROAD AREA OF BELFAST ON 25TH OCTOBER 1976 . |
| 6 | There is a local problem of some substance , the police have been there , it is a matter because of circumstances people driving on the wrong side of the road , it 's certainly dangerous conditions er and I think it 's reasonable to er take up councillor the this is the practical problem the committee could look at tonight . |
| 7 | Only our London intelligence people know of the safe house . |
| 8 | Secondly , it enables community people to participate in the beginning of creating the program or plan of action . |
| 9 | Against this background of craters and devastated buildings people sit in the sun at cafes open again for a town which has nothing else to do but drink coffee and wait for the future . |
| 10 | Soup kitchens were opened to feed the destitute ; in Chicago people waited at the back doors of restaurants for left-over food . |
| 11 | In the old days people spoke of the development of character . |
| 12 | These 10m people live at the south-eastern edge of the culture-area called the West . |
| 13 | The government 's response to the riots , apart from the setting up of the Scarman Inquiry , was to devote more resources to law and order and to renew its efforts to persuade business people to invest in the inner cities . |
| 14 | Part of the Government 's failure can be seen every week in our constituency surgeries , at which small business people complain about the way in which their firms failed . |
| 15 | For all that , however , friction has been generated , not least within the service where criticism has personally been directed at Cruickshank — and not from health workers and professionals but the very business people brought into the service whom one would have expected to sympathise more with his modus operandi . |
| 16 | The results so far are encouraging , although problems have arisen because of the requirement for business people to operate under the inflexible and bureaucratic financial controls to which government agencies have become inured over the years . |
| 17 | This particular political failure of the post-war welfare policies , to provide equality and not just the opportunity for individual achievement , was set in its turn against the dislocation that my mother 's 1950s represent : welfarism in one country did not embody the desire people felt for the world that had shaped them . |
| 18 | At a musical evening of the Upton Liberal and Radical Association , Nicholson attributed unemployment to the lack of confidence people had in the men who were directing the destiny of the world ( SE 1 February 22 ) . |
| 19 | The things people say about the book business . |
| 20 | Lots of day people go to the war and come back night people . |
| 21 | Every day people fall from the clouds , dead . |
| 22 | What did Anglesey people think about the workhouse ? |
| 23 | Some media studies writers have suggested that the meaning of a text is mediated via discussions people have with the friends and household about their viewing and reading . |
| 24 | ‘ Four weeks ago there was a lineside fire problem with a steam locomotive and our operations people agreed with the promoters that this would have to be monitored carefully . |
| 25 | The sort of objectives which are appropriate for advertising are objectives concerned with awareness and understanding of the brand , and with the attitudes and opinions people have about the brand . |
| 26 | I t has been very successful too in involving relatives and neighbours people living around the facility . |
| 27 | All through the hot week people crept along the streets , hugging the edge of shade that buildings provided , half a foot and one side of an arm at least out of the burning sun , though still sweating . |
| 28 | If you look at the amount of viewing of news people do throughout the day — then CNN has a reach comparable of those of the big networks . |
| 29 | There is a rather more dangerous kind of exaggerating , described by Eric Berne in his pop psychology book Games People Play as the game of ‘ Harassed ’ , which involves making things really dreadful for yourself . |
| 30 | Unlike Dunleavy , however , he is saying that any ‘ conservatising ’ effect of home ownership is a result of the real economic interests people have in the economic value of their properties . |