Example sentences of "[adj] people [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leading environmentalist Medha Paktar and 400 others were arrested to prevent them commiting samarpan ( self-sacrifice ) in protest against the dam project , which would force 250,000 tribal people to move from the Narmada valley . |
| 2 | The term ‘ corporatism ’ means different things to different people engaged in the analysis of socio-political structures in liberal industrial societies . |
| 3 | All different people went in the meeting — the health visitor , the doctor , teachers — but I could n't go in . |
| 4 | The chance of an exposure transmitting infection varies both between the different ways it can be transmitted and , for reasons yet undetermined , between different people engaging in the same activity . |
| 5 | Different people vary in the speed at which they take in what is said . |
| 6 | If you have editing facilities , you could edit together a succession of short " clips " of different people talking about the same subject . |
| 7 | THE COMMISSION of Investigation wishes to pay homage to you , in particular for your support to the Chadian people oppressed during the eight years of dictatorship of Hissein Habre . |
| 8 | ‘ Some people take to the Cup more than others . |
| 9 | Some people depend on the land for their income . |
| 10 | Some people react to the notion that a human being might be understood as a computer of a certain sort as demeaning of what is special about human beings . |
| 11 | Then she gradually took over the conversation , talking about her parents and the farm , saying she knew she was old-fashioned and some people laughed at the way she farmed , but she was happy with her methods and she liked the animals . |
| 12 | So that crime the full range of crime you know , wh was displayed by some people living in the flats . |
| 13 | On the one hand , the local situation and knowledge about it encouraged some people to retire at the same time as they were made redundant . |
| 14 | a transcription you remember last year , we had about one week on phonetics , and John , some people came to the John talk , where we did n't really talk about phonetics script there . |
| 15 | I hung around deciding what to do and then some people came off the boat . |
| 16 | Some people covered by the conventional company scheme might prefer a personal pension . |
| 17 | Some people change for the better . |
| 18 | It never fails to amaze me how little some people know about the fish they are buying , even down to the most basic of aspects . |
| 19 | Some people stumble across the Kingdom without looking for it , like discovering a hidden treasure while turning over the soil in the field ( Matt. |
| 20 | It is really very easy for people like me , in North-West London , living my comfortable middle-class life , to go to a comfortable mikva like some people go to the local jacuzzi or sauna ! |
| 21 | Some people go in the legs and some go in the head . |
| 22 | Why are some people repelled from the twilight zone of a city and attracted to a New Town , as shown in the photographs ? |
| 23 | Despite subtitles which obviously struggle to get the profane poetry of Tarantino 's script , the film goes down a storm with the festival audience , though the torture does send some people scurrying for the door , among them one Wes Craven , director of the first Elm Street movie and much else . |
| 24 | Some people fleeing from the south brought the news with them . ’ |
| 25 | I mean the trouble with group selectionistic thinking is you , you completely discount the costs that some people pay for the benefits of others and so oh well , you know everybody benefits from mothers erm having children and sacrificing themselves to their offspring . |
| 26 | We started our 1964 test with the words : ‘ Sun-capped Dolomites and the distant roar and squeal of one of the works rally cars scrambling its way up the Gavia Pass — this is perhaps the image that some people have of the big Austin-Healey at work . |
| 27 | After all , some people confronted with the same issue might smile quietly and respond gently and constructively until the issue blew over . |
| 28 | The conflict which some people see between the Commission 's role in attempting to improve the economic position of Catholics and its neutrality between Protestants and Catholicism is more apparent than real . |
| 29 | It looks like some people going into the park lately . |
| 30 | Some people engaging in the issue of disability representation have tried to affect the taste of non-disabled audiences and supporters , rather than engage in a political creativity within and about the disability struggle . |