Example sentences of "[conj] a [noun sg] [prep] people " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 've changed jobs , moving to a position of greater responsibility , where a lot of people are making demands on your time and expertise . |
| 2 | In an organisation where a lot of people , through necessity or personal choice , were cut off from their families or friends at home , mail and letters took on a special importance . |
| 3 | ‘ I think what 's interesting is … the people ( at The Mind Gym ) who are doing this thing , they do a lot of communal work where a lot of people will undergo the same program all at the one time and they find that they get a lot of really heavy group processes developing . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I think what 's interesting is … the people ( at The Mind Gym ) who are doing this thing , they do a lot of communal work where a lot of people will undergo the same program all at the one time and they find that they get a lot of really heavy group processes developing . ’ |
| 5 | Anyone who has practised at the Bar knows well that , in the sort of case that arises on an estate , where a number of people are involved , intimidation is such that it may prove impossible for a young man to find witnesses to say that he had left the scene of the crime and that another person was guilty of aggravated theft . |
| 6 | Sometimes just one person like that or a couple of people ? |
| 7 | Something else the organizers have to consider is the Princess will never skip a bed in a hospital ward , or a group of people in a room . |
| 8 | It has been used as a collective noun for the action-sequences in which one person or a group of people direct action upon another , for the abstract concept of such types of action , as in the phrase ‘ act of aggression ’ , and for the drive or impulse or intention which animates individual people to interfere with or even physically attack others . |
| 9 | If you ever try to do a ha a demonstration for anybody erm or a group of people involving a sort of manual skill , you find that it goes to pieces if it 's not a very well rehearsed skill , whereas you find you can actually get very your performance is a lot better when you 've got an audience if you know the skill very well . |
| 10 | How do you actually decide whether a state of a system , or a group of people is better than one stage than another . |
| 11 | Well I think of evaluation as the process by which a person or a group of people have a fairly careful look at something they 're doing in order to try and decide whether it 's going well or badly , whether there are things in it they might wish to improve , and how valuable they think it is whether they might want to make changes in it in any way . |
| 12 | As the ‘ degree of control a person or a collectivity of people exercises over the actions of others ’ the sociological examination of power is conventionally linked with male-oriented stratification analysis , and with the analysis of formal institutions such as government . |
| 13 | The Three Hundred Club is for people who have A , done a South Pole streak from sauna , two thousand , oh two hundred degrees Fahrenheit to outdoors minus one hundred degrees Fahrenheit or a penis , a penis of over three hundred millimetres long or a club for people who have made love in a helicopter ? |
| 14 | ‘ Unless , ’ he says , ‘ you had a double in Edinburgh or a lot of people are lying , it means you 'd have to have an accomplice in London ; somebody you 'd hired to … ah , make the collection . ’ |
| 15 | In my personal opinion , the new inflationary model is now dead as a scientific theory , although a lot of people do not seem to have heard of its demise and are still writing papers as if it were viable . |
| 16 | I have n't although a lot of people would say I was silly for not having done . |
| 17 | A second thing is that a co , is it right that a company of people should be deprived of a sacrament because an ordained minister is not available ? |
| 18 | A range of self-report studies have indicated that a majority of people admit to some kind of illegal activity , whether trivial or serious , which could result in a court appearance . |
| 19 | It is only in the last hundred and fifty years , in any culture , that a majority of people have had even minimal access to this technique which already , over two millennia , had been carrying a major part of human culture . |
| 20 | Indeed , the conventional wisdom on these matters over the whole of the post-war period has held that a majority of people are either ignorant of , or disagree with , the specific policies of the party they support . |
| 21 | I believe that a majority of people in this country want to make a success of our membership of the Community . |
| 22 | Many Christians accept the fact that a proportion of people are homosexual through no fault or voluntary choice of their own . |
| 23 | Choosing the final design needs not only care to ensure that the end product will be commercially attractive but that a number of people are involved in the selection to avoid accusations of favouritism . |
| 24 | ‘ Look , it so happens that a number of people have dropped out of the scheme for one reason or another , and there 's now a place for you at the end of the team . |
| 25 | But look a little more deeply and you will see that something else has happened too ; if a number of people have gone down with the cold , does not it mean that a number of people have not gone down with the cold ? |
| 26 | It 's apparent from the meeting here that a number of people feel they have a grievance about the theatre and the way it 's run , would it not be an idea for the board on a regular basis to invite users of the theatre to attend . |
| 27 | The Royal Commission survey showed that a number of people were aware that a solicitor could help , but , for a variety of reasons , failed to approach one . |
| 28 | So that created a problem and we then found that a number of people were leaving Brothers to seek their fortunes elsewhere because the work that they liked to work on and you know traditionally they 'd been on it for years , er was no longer there and er subsequently there was a slip in the numbers employed . |
| 29 | The answer to his first point is that it is absolutely clear that a number of people who break their bail conditions are remanded in custody when they are brought back to the court ; but that happens in only about six out of 10 cases , and in four out of 10 cases when those who break their bail conditions are brought back to the court , it seems that they are no longer remanded in custody but are again let out on bail . |
| 30 | Is the Minister aware that a number of people in the west midlands and elsewhere who took the opportunity of buying their accommodation now find that their homes have been repossessed as a direct result of Government economic policy ? |