Example sentences of "[conj] people [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was thought that people tapping into the power supply illegally were sending high-voltage ‘ spikes ’ down the line . |
| 2 | No one ever explained what the danger zone was , or that people living outside the no-go area might still be in danger of contamination . |
| 3 | Does the Secretary of State accept that people living in the real world question the Government 's industrial policy ? |
| 4 | One reason may well be that people living in the same locality share , whatever their class position , similar material positions . |
| 5 | In short , the history of the Chaloners reminds one that people living in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were as varied and as human as we are today . |
| 6 | The London Weather Centre said that people travelling for the holiday weekend will face more rain tomorrow and Sunday . |
| 7 | The new King 's Cross scheme is vital as a national project , and for commuters and people living in the capital . |
| 8 | The argument is one of many currently raging between Sefton Council and people living in the town once known as the Garden City of the North . |
| 9 | The sound of an approaching band and people gathering outside the Butcher 's Arms heralds the highlight of the feast , the united sing . |
| 10 | There were large noses sticking into the lens , and people waving at the camera . |
| 11 | There have of course been many other television programmes which have touched on the subject of mental handicap , including series such as ‘ Let's Go ’ , a weekly series for the mentally handicapped launched in 1981 , and followed by a second series in 1983 , and ‘ Accident of Birth ’ , a series mainly for parents and people working with the mentally handicapped broadcast in early 1982 . |
| 12 | The purpose of this text is to help students of hotel and catering management and people working within the catering professions towards a better understanding of those principles of English law which closely affect them in their day-to-day work in the hotel and catering industry . |
| 13 | This ‘ test and isolate ’ approach , of which Cuba is an extreme example , has been universally condemned by AIDS activists and people working in the AIDS/HIV field who advocate community-based education , support and treatment , and research . |
| 14 | There 's loads of shops with their lights on and traffic and people hurrying along the pavement . |
| 15 | And people walking on the pavement all it totally and I thought what a cheek . |
| 16 | The last horse drawn carriage service in cheltenham ended years ago , but people living in the town think reviving the tradition is a good idea . |
| 17 | But people living near the Penmaenmawr plant say they would suffer from noise , dust and unpleasant smells . |
| 18 | The advice is the same as that given for westward flights — though , of course , whether people living in the new time zone are awake or sleeping will differ . |
| 19 | The terms of the agreement were as follows : that political prisoners were to be released and the relevant ordinances withdrawn ; that civil disobedience was to be stopped ; that the boycott of British goods would cease , though ‘ peaceful picketing ’ could continue ; that there would be no change in the salt laws , though people living by the sea could make some for personal consumption ; and that Congress was to be represented at future sessions of the Round Table conference , the agreed agenda being federation , ‘ Indian responsibility ’ , and ‘ reservations or safeguards in the interests of India for such matters as , for instance , defence ; external affairs ; the position of minorities ; the financial credit of India , and the discharge of obligations ’ . |
| 20 | In behavioural terms this usually occurs when people participating in the meeting get locked into an information loop . |
| 21 | It is made all the more aggravating when people living inside the city know how little it costs the authorities outside the city to do precisely the same job . |
| 22 | ‘ Real collaboration only happens when people working on the same scale want to share the results of their work or are willing to put money in a pool for an expensive project ’ said another official . |