Example sentences of "[noun sg] of people [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's going to put the erm actual availability up quite a bit of people having that fax there |
| 2 | Force is the precondition for compelling the majority of people to accept this pretension . |
| 3 | The majority of people accept this because the state , by excluding these killings from the murder category , has signified its intention that we should not treat them as capital offenders . |
| 4 | In Britain today the majority of people have more options open to them than their forebears had . |
| 5 | There is very strong feeling about this issue and , although the Government are urgently considering the matter that has recently arisen , the vast majority of people expect those who are supposed to pay the community charge to do so . |
| 6 | This was getting serious , the clatter of people talking all at once dies down until there 's silence . |
| 7 | It was a case of people ringing each other up and going — ‘ Guess what … ’ and waiting for the reactions . |
| 8 | Apart from thinking of this sort , a large proportion of people report some odd perceptual experiences — not dreams , strictly speaking , but quite different from the ordinariness of waking consciousness . |
| 9 | Ta'kwanya refers to all those particular cultural capabilities a specific type of people have that enable them to live as they do : it is their means of living and fulfilling their material needs ; it is their way of doing things in the material sense . |
| 10 | It could well be that the right hon. Member for Chingford and others are so offended by the success of those organisations and the ability of those individuals that they wish to curtail the right of people to seek that independent legal advice . |
| 11 | ‘ A group of people made this Star Zoo . |
| 12 | A handful of people die each year from mistakenly eating poisonous fungi |
| 13 | The notion of people sending each other greetings cards in the future with ‘ Happy Music Day ’ complete with pithy , humorous and probably quaintly vulgar subtext is an amusing one . |
| 14 | No there are the side effects are only a quarter of people have those |
| 15 | But Mrs Standing said : ‘ This is yet another example of people believing all the bad publicity about the estate . |
| 16 | They , they brought in a heap of people to disassemble these rockets and inspectors as er examined every , every part of the rockets . |
| 17 | Phil was the first of a long list of people to tackle this challenge — abseiling down the 170 feet of the electrical engineering tower . |
| 18 | Saudi Arabia yesterday publicly beheaded four people — two Saudis and two Indians — convicted of murder , taking the total number of people beheaded this year to 99. — Reuter . |
| 19 | the number of people served each morning for a week |
| 20 | the number of people served each afternoon |
| 21 | While the number of people drawing such assistance grew steadily during the post-war period , the size of this group has exploded since 1979 . |
| 22 | If the agent knows that a publisher , a record company and a manager have all invested , at least he or she can feel there are a number of people needing this act to be successful . |
| 23 | An increasing number of people think that could be Gerald Ratner himself . |
| 24 | Undoubtedly a number of people travelled this way from other parts of Kent and Sussex , probably more to Rochester than Canterbury . |
| 25 | But it is quite clear that a large number of people believe these three , who have now been in prison for 13 years , to be innocent of the crime for which they stand convicted . |
| 26 | A growing number of people believe this may be more than a fantasy . |
| 27 | And at Sussex , there are quite a number of people doing these sorts of experiments , what , about six or eight different people doing experiments in low temperature physics ? |
| 28 | You see , I had just graduated to the position of providing a horse and cart , and any amount of people wanted that job so I would have lost it , maybe for good , if I had n't turned up . |
| 29 | well certain amount of people buy that type of |
| 30 | CALLAHAN : A lot of people said that . |