Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] people [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On those assumptions the state can be neutral only if it creates conditions of equal opportunities for people to choose any conception of the good , with an equal prospect of realizing it . |
| 2 | There are other good vignettes of people telephoning each other to say goodbye , huddling in corner stores and generally acting as they do in scary SF movies . |
| 3 | By comparison with other videoconferencing systems ( which have been known to take over whole rooms ) the surprisingly compact desktop VC7000 looks basic , but allows small groups of people to see each other and show documents and objects regardless of their location . |
| 4 | For some groups of people benefit more than others from these laws . |
| 5 | I was going to say that everyo ebs absolutely everyone is against war but not many people actually joined the United Nations after the war for a very small subscription or not many groups of people have many members in it , and of course because there were so few members in it , they a they went one particular way which a lot of people that had joined did n't agree with and so they came out of it . |
| 6 | She looked in the glass-fronted noticeboards and read of the societies that would be re-forming when term started , and the new committees and the sports arrangements and the practice times , and the appeals for people to join this group and that club . |
| 7 | Japan 's plan to build ‘ fifth-generation ’ computers , which started the British debate , was formulated only after discussions with people representing many sectors of society who have nothing directly to do with computers . |
| 8 | The percentages of people applying this comment to each of the six credit types were as follows : |
| 9 | In our 1979 survey , these were the proportions of people rating each of five factors as the most important in their most recent decision to use a particular type of credit ( Appendix 1 , Table 33a ) : |
| 10 | Large numbers of people deter some customers ( eg the elderly or frail ) |
| 11 | Which is why I think the government is authoritarian , why you have secret police and gulags and so on , because they ca n't afford to tolerate large numbers of people saying this is n't what the revolution was supposed to be about . |
| 12 | The home can , therefore , be seen as a potentially significant source of ontological security , even if large numbers of people finding such security in the same place at the same time can itself lead to much anxiety . |
| 13 | The first refers to the ‘ ontological security ’ which we discuss in Chapter 1 : the attempts by people to gain some understanding and a sense of ‘ self ’ and social identity in the natural and social worlds . |
| 14 | Parts of people present another unusual challenge ( fig. 10.3 ) . |