Example sentences of "[noun] people [to-vb] [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 | Secondly , it enables community people to participate in the beginning of creating the program or plan of action . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Leaving the punchbowl lying there for the clearup people to find in the morning , Wayne followed her . |