Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] the [adj] people " in BNC.
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| 1 | Awareness of the camera has , however , led many Members to plan more carefully their behaviour in the Chamber , including taking care to sit next to Members who are likely to be called ( although organised ‘ dough-nutting ’ has largely been dropped ) or choosing the right people to sit next to them . |
| 2 | Yet all this was a direct response to the same basic insecurity that drove the German people to support Völkisch opinion and later to support Hitler . |
| 3 | Myeloski was beginning to realize that he could be taking on forces that encompassed the very people who ran the Soviet Union , the powermasters who employed him to keep the peace as a police officer . |
| 4 | Dai Qing 's name was singled out as one of the ‘ tiny handful of people ’ who had ‘ colluded with foreign forces , ganged up among themselves at home and made ideological , public opinion and organisational preparations for years to stir up turmoil in China , overthrow the leadership of the Communist Party and subvert the socialist people 's republic . ’ |
| 5 | Shall we pensioners form an aged assassination squad to fight back , to seek out and eliminate the callous people who create the cry be : ‘ The only good Tory is a dead one ? ’ |
| 6 | Life in this part of Poland is changing rapidly and now is the right time to see it and to meet the Polish people who live here or those on holiday from the cities . |
| 7 | The memorandum stressed the PLO 's " legitimate right " to " confront these Israeli crimes and to discharge its responsibilities for defending and protecting the Palestinian people with all its means " . |
| 8 | In an army in peacetime you have to arselick and know the right people if you want to get on . |
| 9 | In a declaration published in the press on Feb. 7 a group of 62 retired officers , one of whom , Gen. Jacobo Yépez , was later arrested , accused civilian governments since 1974 ( when Pérez embarked on his first term of office ) of creating the circumstances for a coup by failing to fight corruption and provide the Venezuelan people with order and justice . |
| 10 | For one month you and your companions will live together on an uninhabited island to show just how resourceful , brave and fit the young people of this country are . |
| 11 | ‘ The idea is to keep everything fairly simple and let the young people actually make a useful piece of equipment , e.g. a crystal set . |
| 12 | Since they wish to live in this country , they should study and understand the situation and support the Scottish people 's national aspirations . |
| 13 | Commercial manager said that finding and training the right people was not a problem . |
| 14 | Recruiting and training the right people |
| 15 | It forced me out of the attic three times a day to discover my new surroundings and meet the local people . |
| 16 | It is a solemn experience to sit in 1970 and watch the British people , seventy years before , being taught to ‘ think Imperially ’ . |
| 17 | Uncle Albert told her that when he did the weeding , he always imagined himself as some great monster uprooting trees and scaring the tiny people hiding under the stones . |
| 18 | When you look back , when you look back you see , erm , understand that after nineteen twenty six , at the local pits , if you if you took a watch , if you took a watch to work with you , so that you 're in a position to know the time , and tell the other people what the time was , you see , you were running the serious risk of losing your job . |
| 19 | It 's easy to sit up here for hours , feeling fresh and invigorated and envying the local people their beautiful surroundings , but we were keen to press on and see a Stone Age burial chamber sited just off the path . |
| 20 | We decided , instead , to put him in an enclosure and to let the local people come and have a look at him . |
| 21 | I 'm about to change into a monster and terrorize the little people in the garden . |
| 22 | I remember John coming to Merthyr and asking the young people to find , see if there was anybody who was over a hundred in the congregation ! |
| 23 | Provision of materials and expert personnel is only part of the requirement ; teachers need opportunities to pool ideas and programmes , share one another 's resources on a personal advice basis , find compatible people to whom to turn for educational and emotional support , meet together in courses and workshops at a variety of levels , often very informally , and find the unusual people or collections in the community that the Exeter project is noting and which have played such a useful part in the work of Devon schools . |
| 24 | Well , for me yes , because erm there are now things like the Independent Living Fund , things like that , if people fit into the right boxes and contact the right people , then they can get some sort of help but I mean , it 's still an absolute maze out there for anybody who does n't have that sort of back up . |
| 25 | We are left in no doubt that fund-raising , and knowing the right people , are essential skills in scientific research . |
| 26 | Piles of aromatic substances such as frankincense , myrrh , juniper and cypress were burnt in the city squares during important festivals to purify the air and to allow the common people to enjoy breathing in the aromatic smoke . |
| 27 | ‘ Let me tell you , ’ she yelled , ‘ Boyd and I are somebodies in this town , and mostly because I was smart enough to set to and cultivate the right people . ’ |
| 28 | By 1971 , the tension was so great that Kapwepwe broke with Kaunda and formed the United People 's Party ( UPP ) which depended on a flimsy alliance between the Bemba and other tribal groups who at that time felt they were out in the political cold . |
| 29 | I am involved with the current Sunday School and youth leaders , promoting growth and deepening the young people 's walk with the Lord . |
| 30 | It really annoys me when people get on and do the young people down ! |